Subj : Re: FidoNet; Ken Kaplan - and t
To   : Alonzo
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Dec 15 2024 06:57 pm

  Re: Re: FidoNet; Ken Kaplan - and t
  By: Digital Man to Alonzo on Sun Dec 15 2024 05:29 pm

 >   Re: Re: FidoNet; Ken Kaplan - and t
 >   By: Alonzo to Digital Man on Sun Dec 15 2024 08:03 pm
 >
 >  >  DM> Oh, that didn't occur to me. I'm kind of used to "SBBS" sometimes
 >  >  DM> (very rarely now) referring to SuperBBS, but I'd never seen
 >  >  DM> Searchlight referred to as "SBBS". If that's the case, my bad. :-)
 >
 >  > Yeah, I ran a Searchlight board for several years and it was always
 >  > referred to as SBBS. In fact I think the default file directory for the
 >  > BBS files was named SBBS.
 >
 > Oh, interesting. I'd heard/seen SLBBS in reference to Searchlight, but not
 > SBBS. e.g. https://slbbs.org/

Curious, I looked a little bit more and the Wikipedia page on BBS software says "SLBBS" is the abbreviation of Searchlight and the executable and documentation of Searchlight BBS agree with that:
  207110  Defl:N    70364  66% 08-01-1988 03:09 5cf79b0f  SLBBS.DOC
   20496  Defl:N    11359  45% 08-26-1989 18:54 b215dcb9  SLBBS.EXE

I guess I could install the old SLBBS to look further...

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