Subj : It's ALIVE!!
To   : All
From : Sam Alexander
Date : Fri Sep 16 2005 05:20 pm

Hi Everyone,

I'm finally getting my board finetuned and working the way I'd like, but I 
have some questions that maybe you guys can answer.

I'm using Synchronet on Linux (Slackware 10.2) because for one thing I don't 
have a Windows PC at home :)  My primary box is OSX and the BBS is running 
on a 400Mhz Dell box I paid like $20 for.  

ANyway, here's my questions, and maybe they're not too crazy or cheezy:

= What full screen editor do you guys use? 
I'm VERY partial to Pico because I've used it for 10+ years now, but is 
there a better one?  I installed DOSEMU and I'll start toying with that 
soon, but Pico is working with only a few bugs.  First it adds linebreaks to 
where it wraps, so I had to force -r78 in the command so it'll wrap at 78 
characters.  This might throw some readers off, but works on Google.  Also 
when I start a message and hit Ctrl-X to exit, it saves the message.  Is 
there anyway to abort the message with Pico short of leaving the body empty?

= Editing users =
I posted this on alt.bbs.synchronet before I got dovenet working, but ;uedit 
crashes the board when I run it and I can't find any other way to edit 
users.  Ideas?

= Colors when reading messages =
This is more just personal want, but when reading messages is there anyway 
to have the lines starting with > for quotes to be one color, standard text 
another, and anything at the end after -- light gray (assuming it's a sig 
file)?  Just would make it easier for me to read the messages, but what's 
there works great.

Also let me note that Dovenet seems to be working now.  The next run 
picked-up more messages, so now only like 2-3 grousp aren't populated, but 
the important ones I want are.  

Thanks Rob and everyone for an awesome product and for keeping the BBS world 
alive.  Hopefully my board, with whatever it evolves into, will help keep 
it going alittle more.  Take care,

Sam





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