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Skriven 2008-12-28 13:40:16 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
     Kommentar till en text av Alan Ianson
Ärende: offline fido linux
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Hey Alan!

> MBSE BBS has Bluewave and QWK support.

I'll have to check.  I have never been able to get MBSE to cooperate with my
networking scheme.  Seems to me that MBSE is more a DOS-like BBS which isn't in
the cards.  I still think regular networking like ftp and now ssh are a better
option for a Linux based BBS.  Also I don't use, need nor want a binkp based
connection.  What for?

> I always just use QWK when I do offline packets.

I think that is what I used when I briefly used multimail.  No BBS's in this
neck of the woods so it really doesn't matter and if I were to operate a BBS it
wouldn't do either as both of them are very hoggy bytewise packets.  I'd just
stick to text based packets which dramatically trims off all the fat.  Both
Bluewave and QWK waste far too much bandwidth.

> I struggled with vim to understand it's commands.

Understood.  I grew up with vi so it was never an issue when switching over to
Linux.  Before vi was whatever text editor there was on VMS which was really,
really simple but I don't remember offhand what it was called. That was a long,
long time ago, in a land far, far away.

> I always use joe when I need a simple editor.

That one is okay.  Had some issues compiling it awhile back.  Haven't looked at
it lately.  vim is the winner here although I really like vi in busybox as it
sticks to the primary commands and is teeny-tiny. For ttylinux it rules.

> I think it has a spellcheck command but I haven't used it either.
> I'll have to download some QWK packets and have a closer look.

Sounds like a plan.  Do you plan to put a BBS online again?

Life is good,
Maurice

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