Subj : Linux port
To   : Michael Preslar
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Thu Jun 02 2005 09:56 am

Hey Michael!

Jun 02 01:55 05, Michael Preslar wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MP> That tarball you grabbed is known to work on fc1, fc2, and fc3, 
 MP> gentoo,
 MP> freebsd, and mandrake. I dont think you'll be having any problems :)

Well now we know it works on Slackish-LFSish no-release-number as well.  ;-)

 MP> eh, dos2unix does the same thing. Soo.. whatever floats your boat :)

I haven't seen that in over a decade.  I think Slack comes with a different one 
but offhand I don't recall what it is.  Same idea though.  I haven't had to 
deal with this issue for quite some time now but like you say it is easily 
resolved.  Needs to be watched for though especially with the Fido stuff and 
scripting.

 MP> Eh, it all depends on what your doing, I guess. a message board, for 
 MP> example,
 MP> would be good on a webserver or a mailing list. Kinda hard to do a 
 MP> shell
 MP> script for that.

I've done cgi and html with bash scripts.  I am a sucker for things like that.

 MP> But a quick bash script to mail multiple people at one time, easier 
 MP> to do
 MP> than a webform or something.

For sure.  Shell scripting can be powerful in it's place.

 MP> Which website? Mine? http://www.web-lord.com ?

Yep.  Was reading your bug reports etc.

 MP> Guess its a good thing that lord doesnt rely on auto-refreshes. :)

Perfect.  Let me know if you want anyone to check it out with a text browser, 
either lynx and/or links and/or ?, and I'll give it a whirl.

 MP> I'm interested in how things work out for you. Be sure to let me know 

So far so good but I just logged in on local as a user.  I'd like to try it 
networked and see what happens there.  At present I am working on a small 
chroot BBS and LORD might fit in there somewhere.  Is there going to be issues 
with multiuser?  I haven't tried that yet.  I still need to remind myself about 
DOOR.SYS.  It has been ages.

Life is good,
Maurice

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