Subj : BBS over web-based ??
To   : Mweeby
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 01:51 pm

  Re: BBS over web-based ??
  By: Mweeby to Sam Alexander on Fri Sep 23 2005 04:19 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.

If you use the install/GNUmakefile short-cut mentioned in sbbsunix.txt, it does
most of the steps for you. If you don't have an exec dir, you definitely missed
a step somewhere. :-)

                                                  digital man

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