Subj : Re: Win4lin
To   : Finnigann
From : Time Warrior
Date : Mon Oct 03 2005 02:08 am

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

  To: Finnigann
  Re: Re: Win4lin
  By: Finnigann to Time Warrior on Sat Oct 01 2005 10:57 pm

 > To: Time Warrior
 > -=> Time Warrior wrote to Finnigann <=-

 >  TW> From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

 >  TW> To: Finnigann Re: Re: Win4lin By: Finnigann to Time Warrior on Fri
 >  TW> Sep 30 2005 07:41 am

 >  > To: Time Warrior
 >  > -=> Time Warrior wrote to Finnigann <=-

 >  >  TW> From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

 >  >  TW> To: Finnigann Re: Re: Win4lin By: Finnigann to Digital Man on Thu Se
 >  >  TW> 29 2005 03:05 pm


 >  >  >  > If i'm in for a rough ride, then it's my rough ride to be in for, a
 >  >  >  > learn alot from the journey.

 >  >  >  DM> Like I said, good luck. You'll need it.

 >  >  > Are you taking bets on how long it will be before he realizes what you

 >  >  TW> Bets are uneeded. I know what he is talking about. Why do you think
 >  >  TW> want to try? As i've said, if it was easy, someone would have done i
 >  >  TW> already.

 >  >  TW> I suppose you only take on tasks that don't pose any challenges?


 >  > His point and mine is that two difficult tasks at the same time could be
 >  > avoided. Thus possible enableing success.

 >  > Learning Linux is going to be a steep learning curve. Why not learn SBBS
 >  > (ala sbbs.exe)  and then Linux when you have finished that (more or less)

 >  > Obviously you control what goes on in your house. And you will heed what
 >  > as you will.

 >  > Good luck - anyway.

 >  TW> I never said I was undertaking them at once. If you must know -- a
 >  TW> friend of mine was able to talk his teacher into this as a college
 >  TW> project assignment. It'll be on a machine at the college and he knows
 >  TW> more about linux than I do and I know more about Synchronet than he
 >  TW> does.

 >  TW> When his schedule slows down, he'd like to eventually setup a BBS. If
 >  TW> we can accomplish this for his "homework" then the results would be
 >  TW> easy enough to duplicate on my network once I am ready to do so.

 > Good deal. Perhaps you can post an update now and then as to how things are
 > going.

 I'll let you know when / if we make any progress. I'm confident that its 
possible. No guarentee that him and I will be the ones who actually figure it 
out :-D

 If any conflicts are in the Synchronet C Code itself, he is a programmer 
also. If he can patch it to work with Win4lin i'm sure he'd be more than 
happy to hand that info over to DM.

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