Re: BBS menu (was: unexpected behavior)

2023-11-28 Thread Felix Miata
Joe composed on 2023-11-28 15:02 (UTC-): > the BIOS resets > DefaultBoot to the Windows drive and I then need a rescue OS to get back > to grub. If this is accurate, your BIOS is broken. It's standard procedure for a PC BIOS, even since before UEFI in PCs became commonplace, to provide a BBS

Re: BBS

2002-02-11 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Joe Wise wrote: > Where do I get a good Bulletin Board to run on Debian? Debian package adbbs -- Baloo

Re: bbs for debian?

1998-02-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 04:29:12PM +0100, Pere Camps wrote: > > So I have a cronjob to kill dosemu daily, and dosemu runs from a script > > which just runs it over and over again. Same as the power reset on > > the old machine, but nicer. You could also have an external event > > from your mailer t

Re: bbs for debian?

1998-02-26 Thread Pere Camps
Hamish, > So I have a cronjob to kill dosemu daily, and dosemu runs from a script > which just runs it over and over again. Same as the power reset on > the old machine, but nicer. You could also have an external event > from your mailer to run EXITEMU instead of the kill. My system survived > ok

Re: bbs for debian?

1998-02-26 Thread Pere Camps
Joey, > I doubt it, I have a friend ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) who starts dosemu when his > system boots, and never closes it. I haven't heard about periodic hangs. I'll run some tests... Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_

Re: bbs for debian?

1998-02-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 05:09:40PM +0100, Pere Camps wrote: > Sorry for taking so long in replying. > > > > Ugly solution: I'm running my RA 2.50/Bink 2.60/IMAIL 1.75/Squish 1.10 > > system under dosemu on Debian 1.3. > > I just unplugged the hard drive from my DOS BBS machine and plugged >

Re: bbs for debian?

1998-02-24 Thread Joey Hess
Pere Camps wrote: > I was tempted to do that, but somebody told me that dosemu hangs > every two days or so of continous use. Is that true? I doubt it, I have a friend ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) who starts dosemu when his system boots, and never closes it. I haven't heard about periodic hangs. --

Re: bbs for debian?

1998-02-24 Thread Pere Camps
Hamish, Sorry for taking so long in replying. > > Ugly solution: I'm running my RA 2.50/Bink 2.60/IMAIL 1.75/Squish 1.10 > system under dosemu on Debian 1.3. > I just unplugged the hard drive from my DOS BBS machine and plugged > it into my Linux box, mounted all the drives, set up dosemu

Re: bbs for debian?

1998-02-19 Thread Bill Leach
Hamish; It seems to me that there are several good bbses that should work under Linux. Though this is from somewhat distant memory two were RBBS and CBBS and then there are a couple that were written for other multitasking OSes by ham radio operators. These latter might be a bit more difficult t

Re: bbs for debian?

1998-02-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 05:13:16PM +0100, Pere Camps wrote: > Does anybody know of a good piece of BBS software for debian? > I'm looking for something like Remote Access for DOS. Good luck, and let me know if you find anything. I've never been able to find a BBS program for Linux that