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From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.)
Subject: Re: BBS software
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mikep@pro-berks.cts.com (System Administrator) writes:
>greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury, Jr.) writes:

>>If ProLine had a way to tell it it was running off of multiple disks
>>instead of one partiton then I wouldn't be having so many problems.

>"Out of the box" Proline will use three partitions.  32 MB for the root
>directory,  32 MB for the file section, and another 32 MB for the message 
>base.

Ah.  But I need to split up the root directory among two disks.  I don't
plan of having files for download, and a non-networked message system.  (I
have been looking closely at the root directory, since that is where I
have my problems.  Too close to the problem, one could say.)

>The smallest configuration
>and still be able to run a full Proline would be a 2 meg ram disk and an 800k
>floppy for the message base.  Proline has alot of utilities and and it does
>take up some space for the root directory.  

I was able to squeeze it into a 1024K RAMdisk (my maximum configurable),
save extra modem drivers and one rather large but unnecessary text file.
That was without any file or message areas, running only what was given,
plus my account, minus the significant-dates file.  If I can split the
root directory, I think I could run it on 2 800K disks.  (One physical,
one RAM.  I need some space for scrollback in ProTERM.)  I might be able
to throw in some space on a 140K disk, but I currently keep system files I
need there, like UTIL.SYSTEM.

>Mike
>Internet:  mikep@pro-berks.cts.com

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