Subj : Linux port
To   : Michael Preslar
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Wed Jun 01 2005 10:11 pm

Hey Michael!

Jun 01 22:46 05, Michael Preslar wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MP> The dat files arent text files. Theyre structured data files. \n \r\n 
 MP> makes
 MP> no difference to the .dat/.DAT files. (should be in all caps unless I 
 MP> missed
 MP> one)

Okee dokee.  I'll have to check later and make sure there isn't a problem 
there.  They've been known to cause anomalous behavior.

 MP> The text files on the other hand, yeah. Suppose they should be 
 MP> converted
 MP> (havent looked in my .tar.gz).. but easy enough to do:

Right.  Also dos2unix works good or simular scripts.

 MP> If you want to run it locally:

 MP> ./lord -l

I'll try that first and see what happens.  Will let you know.  I still need to 
work out some details to network the "BBS".

 MP> Using php and mysql. php can be encrypted, and thus distributed, and 
 MP> mysql
 MP> runs on most every platform. (And most serious web-ops already have 
 MP> it
 MP> anyways)

Right.  That isn't me though.  :-)

I had Apache for awhile but never really did much with it that couldn't be done 
from bash a lot quicker and more efficiently.  I am obviously too old 
fashioned.  I did manage to fire up a browser and peruse the web site though.  
I saw references to php but nothing about mysql.  Seems to be all the rage 
these days.  Probably a good idea.  One thing about that and my setup here is 
that my browser doesn't do automatic refreshes so gaming would be difficult.  I 
am kind of anal about those sorts of things and more then a little paranoid.  
No popups, java, etc.

Thank you and I'll let you know how it works out here.  It'll be interesting to 
see after all these years and years especially on a Linux console.  :-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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