Subj : Re: EleBBS/OS2
To   : James Coyle
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Wed Jun 28 2017 11:05 pm

-=> James Coyle wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 JC> It was a pretty exciting OS at the time.  I'm a pretty big fan of
 JC> Ubuntu Linux these days.  I don't run it full time only because I still
 JC> like to play a few games on my Windows machine.

I run Slackware full time both as my personal OS and what I run my BBS
under.  It's a personal decision as I get very frustrated that I can't get
under the hood of Windows quite as easy as I can Linux. ;)  I'm not really a
gamer but oddly enough, there's not a whole ton of amateur radio software
under Linux--mainly because the radio manufacturers haven't made a lot of
their proprietary stuff open source--but what there is available is pretty
high quality stuff.

 JC> Thank you very much, this seems super helpful.  I'll take a look at it
 JC> sometime in the near future and see what I can make of it!

There's a few differences IIRC but nothing that can cause any real problems. 
Basically you'll need to modify IBMLAN.INI and PROTOCOL.INI then modify the
MPTS settings.  You don't have to reboot but from experience, I'd recommend
doing so.

You can use x:\tcpip\bin\tcpexit.cmd (IIRC) to bring an entire BBS system
online via that CMD file also (I'm sure you know that already though).

-- Sean
 
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