Subj : BBS over web-based ??
To   : Mweeby
From : Sam Alexander
Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 09:10 am

  Re: BBS over web-based ??
  By: Mweeby to Sam Alexander on Fri Sep 23 2005 05:19 am

 >   Re: BBS over web-based ??
 >   By: Sam Alexander to Time Warrior on Thu Sep 22 2005 10:41 am
 > 
 >  > and a serial connection to my headless BBS and go from there.  Even just
 >  > installing Linux on my old Dell Inspiron and using SyncTerm would make me
 >  > happy.  Anything but GUI.
 >  >
 >  > I've used the WWW for so long it's gotten almost bothersome.  I write web
 >  > code all day, I look at web resources at work and write stuff for MS
 >  > Sharepoint Portal Server, plus spend so much time in MS SQL that pulling
 >  > away from the GUI and getting back to Command Line BBSing is a breath of
 >  > fresh air.  For me it's more then nostalgia, it's keeping my interests an
 >  > computer hobby alive.
 >  >
 >  > Sam
 >  >
 > I guess that's why I got interested in Linux.  It works nicely with speech, 
 > it does bring back the nostalgia of a commandline interface which I quite li
 > I'm a slow learner on Linux because I am not a programmer, and sometimes
 > documentation seems vague to me, but I like Linux as an alternative to M$$s.
 > And so ok, for the moment I can dablle in eitherr.
 > right now I have downloaded the sbbs_src.tgz tarball, and I'm looking at
 > sbbs_unix.txt, but when I tried to build Synchronet, and I was instructed to
 > into /sbbs/exec, there wasn't any /exec directory, so I must have done
 > something wrong but I'll try it again.
 > Hmmm. babbling again, time to eat something.
 > 

In another Dovenet forum (can't remember which one) I posted a portion of 
the sbbs_unix.txt file with Rob's commands to download and compile SBBS on 
your linuxbox.  From this point it says to skip to Step 5, which jumps over 
most of the manual instructions, then it's just configuration.  I followed 
this on my system and literally in no time it was installed.  

As for using Linux, you don't need to be a programmer, though it helps since 
programmers write all the docs :)  I used to code many years ago, but now 
the most I write is some ColdFusion, PHP, and t/SQL.  I haven't done 
application programming since the DOS days, but I'm really wanting to get 
back into it with Linux and Sync.

Anyway, download Slackware 10.2 (that's what I'm using - two CD's) and give 
it a shot.  I don't know how to migrate an existing Windows board to Linux, 
but there's gotta be someway.  

Take care --

Sam

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