--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: DB400051 Date: 06/30/96 From: BRIAN GOODYEAR Time: 09:55am \/To: STEVE HAYES (Read 2 times) Subj: Some general questions Hello Steve! Replying to a message of Steve Hayes to All: SH> I've never used OS/2 before, and so know very little about it other SH> than it takes up a lot of disk space, so please excuse my ignorance. SH> I have a few very general and elementary questions: SH> What are the advantages of OS/2 for multitasking with a BBS, compared SH> with such systems as Desqview? The primary advantage is stability. I could never sucessfully run Desqview and Windows together for example. With OS/2 this is possible with the added bonus that when Windows crashes you usually can just carry on. If you like Desqview you will love OS/2. SH> Would a 386DX40 with 8Mb RAM be adequate for running OS/2? It will work but it won't be fast. I ran OS/2 with a BBS on a 386 SX25 with 8 megs. It was still better than the DOS/Desqview combo. Now that memory is cheap I would reccomend that you get another 8 megs cause 16 megs seems to be OS/2's sweet point. Later you can upgrade the CPU which seems to have less of an effect that more memory. SH> What is the difference, if any, between OS/2 and OS/2 Warp, and which SH> would be better for this purpose? WARP is a later version, smaller, more optimised etc. SH> Has anyone had experience of running RemoteAccess under OS/2? Does one SH> need a special version, or can one use the DOS version? What other SH> shareware BBS programs could be used? I ran LORA which I believe is similar to RA. As far as I know, all shareware BBS programs will run and many of them come in OS/2 versions. SH> Is it possible to run the main BBS program in a DOS version, and say, SH> the mailer in an OS/2 version? And if so, how difficult is it to set SH> this up? I have seen people doing just that but I believe on a 386 it might be a bit much. Thanking you, Brian --- LoraBBS-OS2 v2.41b3+ * Origin: DharmaGate....more than meets the eye! (1:167/328) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: DB400052 Date: 07/02/96 From: MICHAEL MCBROOM Time: 12:29am \/To: JAMES MCCARTE (Read 3 times) Subj: Customized Maximus BBSes RE: Customized Maximus BBSes BY: James McCarte to Michael McBroom on Sat Jun 29 1996 23:35:00 > MM> If you feel you have a nicely customized Maximus (for OS/2) system, > MM> please leave me your bbs phone number, either here, in netmail, or > MM> email. I don't mind calling anywhere within the continental US or > MM> Canada to see how you've customized your system. > > Well, you're more than welcome to check out my bbs. I've customized everythi > and I've even written a few doors using MEX, the programming language includ > with the Maximus distribution package. in fact, if you decide to go with > Maximus, and have any ideas of things you would like to see written for it, > me know, and I'll see what I can whip up. Hi James, Thanks for the reply. Actually, at this stage of the game, what I'd like to see more than anything else would be a utility that would read in areas.bbs r fidonet.na (having the choice would be nice) to configure the msgarea.ctl ile and a similar utility that would do the same with the filearea.ctl, perhaps with a filebone.na or tick.cfg format. I'm faced with the task of having to move over some 400+ message conferences and 200+ file areas during this switch, and am not looking forward to doing it by hand. Do you know of a utility that will streamline this task? Regards, Mike --- Synchronet+SBBSecho v1.22 * Origin: The Unspun Truth -- Paradigm Shift! (1:103/652) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: DB400053 Date: 07/02/96 From: MR. HOMIE Time: 06:22pm \/To: ALEXANDER ERNE (Read 2 times) Subj: OS/2 Warp HD size limits? AE> when using HPFS the limitation is 2Mb or 4Mb. Luckily there isn't an eIDE AE> drive of that size yet... Wrong. 2.0 and 2.5g EIDE drives are now available. Brian Hertziger Mr. Homies' Computex Mr. Homies' Neighborhood BBS (414) 325-7986 (BBS #1/Fax) (414) 325-7987 (BBS #2) [Team OS/2] Member RAR Reg. Site ProBoard Beta Site Allfix/2 Beta Site ___TheEdit v2.10 "- = eta Testing an attitude with this one . . . = -" Win95. Why? OS/2 Warp. Why ask why. --- [Mr. Homies' Computex] * Origin: [Team OS/2] Mr. Homies' (414) 764-7659 (1:154/645) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: DB400054 Date: 07/01/96 From: KEITH THOMSON Time: 09:42pm \/To: STEVE HAYES (Read 2 times) Subj: Some general questions Hello Steve! Friday June 28 1996 06:30, Steve Hayes wrote to All: SH> For some years now I have been running a RemoteAccess BBS under SH> MS-DOS/DR DOS. SH> There is a possibility that I might get a computer (386DX40) with a SH> big enough hard drive to run OS/2, so I've been wondering about SH> whether it would be possible to run a BBS under OS/2. The main reason SH> for doing this would be multitasking - to be able to use the computer SH> for other things while the BBS was running. SH> I've never used OS/2 before, and so know very little about it other SH> than it takes up a lot of disk space, so please excuse my ignorance. SH> I have a few very general and elementary questions: SH> What are the advantages of OS/2 for multitasking with a BBS, compared SH> with such systems as Desqview? 1. You can use the system more with OS2 than with Desqview. Copying to Floppy disks do not freeze other tasks unlike Desqview 2. You can run OMF while the bbs is up, aLthough it slows Omf down a bit. (Omf, AOTP, AOE and lots of other cool games >:) 3. There's several doors which have OS/2 versions which work better than the dos versions :) (Aka ironox :) 4. playing with colors is cool (j/k) 5. If you are in a text window, It is alot faster than Desqview... (IE at a fullscreen session) SH> Would a 386DX40 with 8Mb RAM be adequate for running OS/2? Yeah, IT would be a little slow due to lack of ram, So you might want to stuff more on while memory is cheap, 12 megs is a huge improvement over 8, and 16 is very fast :) You can upgrade the processor later (OS2 Warp v4 won't run on a 386) The users probably wouldn't notice much slowdown with 8 megs however. SH> What is the difference, if any, between OS/2 and OS/2 Warp, and which SH> would be better for this purpose? There's not really a diffrence, except that OS/2 Warp is OS2 version 3 and later. They just didn't call 2.1 and earlier Warp. :) SH> Has anyone had experience of running RemoteAccess under OS/2? Does one SH> need a special version, or can one use the DOS version? What other SH> shareware BBS programs could be used? The Dos version of RA runs great in OS/2, I used it for a year before i switched to LoraBBS, You might want to get a shareware program called SIO, It GREATLy improves DOS communications for OS.2 :) SH> Is it possible to run the main BBS program in a DOS version, and say, SH> the mailer in an OS/2 version? And if so, how difficult is it to set SH> this up? With Binkley term, Write a .CMD file to spawn RA from binkley when you recieve a bbs call. Keith (kzinti@gj.net), [Team LORE, Team OS/2 (Fanatics Division)] ... I think so brain, But if we didn't have ears, We'd look like WEASELS! --- GED/2 2.50+ * Origin: StarCraft/2, Totally Warped (1:15/42) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: DB400055 Date: 07/01/96 From: MIKKO HYVARINEN Time: 07:56am \/To: GARY DEVRIES (Read 2 times) Subj: OS/2 Warp HD size limits JM> Does OS/2 Warp have a size limitation for IDE drives? GD> Nope. Yes, it has. But I think it is the same as the size limit imposed by the IDE standard. The first limit imposed by OS/2 is the size of an HPFS partition: 64GB with HPFS.IFS, and 2TB with HFPS386.IFS. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 [NR] --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: Uko bbs (2:229/229) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: DB400056 Date: 07/02/96 From: MIKKO HYVARINEN Time: 02:54pm \/To: BILL KIRBY (Read 2 times) Subj: PPP from command line??? BK> YEP.........! Run Adept. No Doorway needed.... No limit what you BK> can do on Internet with Adept! Even get your Fidonet BK> Mail via internet. SIO + VModem + any mailer = Fidonet mail via internet. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 [NR] --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: Uko bbs (2:229/229) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: DB400057 Date: 07/01/96 From: INGO REICHERT Time: 02:51pm \/To: MR. HOMIE (Read 2 times) Subj: Adept questions Hi! * on 26 Jun 96 11:53:07 Mr. Homie wrote to All: MH> For some reason, any local window doesn't show up. If I logon MH> locally, it displayes the windows, but acts like a screen MH> capture...same thing for any remote dial in nodes. How do I fix MH> this? It's 1.07f that I'm working on. A similar problem happened to some sysops with CIRRUS graphic cards. It was a driver problem then, maybe it's the same with your system. Are you using the original WARP drivers? MH> Does the tosser in Adept have the ability to handle FREQ's and MH> multiple downlinks? Yes, sure... FREQs are handled by Adept's mailer. Get a look at the *.OK files in the Adept\Mailer directory. Multiple downlinks are handled, of course. This you have to edit the gatekpr.ctl file for. MH> Thanks in advance. No problem :-) MH> Brian Hertziger MH> AKA Mr. Homie MH> brianh@execpc.com --- AdeptED/v0.60/unregistered * Origin: NiteLine! (2:2455/303.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: DB400058 Date: 07/03/96 From: MARIO DULISSE Time: 09:19am \/To: MICHAEL MCBROOM (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Customized Maximus BBSes > RE: Customized Maximus BBSes > BY: James McCarte to Michael McBroom on Sat Jun 29 1996 23:35:00 > > MM> If you feel you have a nicely customized Maximus (for OS/2) ystem, > > MM> please leave me your bbs phone number, either here, in netmail, or > > MM> email. I don't mind calling anywhere within the continental US or > > MM> Canada to see how you've customized your system. > > > > Well, you're more than welcome to check out my bbs. I've customized > everythi > > and I've even written a few doors using MEX, the programming language > includ > > with the Maximus distribution package. in fact, if you decide to go ith > > Maximus, and have any ideas of things you would like to see written for > it, > > me know, and I'll see what I can whip up. > Hi James, > Thanks for the reply. Actually, at this stage of the game, what I'd like to > see more than anything else would be a utility that would read in areas.bbs > or > fidonet.na (having the choice would be nice) to configure the msgarea.ctl > file > and a similar utility that would do the same with the filearea.ctl, erhaps > with a filebone.na or tick.cfg format. I'm faced with the task of having to > move over some 400+ message conferences and 200+ file areas during this > switch, and am not looking forward to doing it by hand. > Do you know of a utility that will streamline this task? Thetre is one for adept, don't know if it can be adapted to run for maximus, but it's written in rexx so you may be able to hack it to outout the max format areas.bbs (in adept it outputs area.control but his can be changed at the very top of the rexx cmd file) availabe here as cf2am.zip, either freq or ftp to pmario.soonet.ca in the \adeptx dir, note no text file or fileID.diz, you will have to edit the cmd file directly to set it up and change whatever needs changing to produce a mac format file. It reads the fidonet.na file and will produce (without changing anything) an area.control and message_areas for adeptx.. Good luck, i know I was glad to have such a util when i decided to carry the entire fidonet echobone :> ... Mario :) --- AdeptXBBS v1.07g (Registered) * Origin: TelNet or FTP to pmario.soonet.ca The DogStar BBS (1:222/10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: DB400059 Date: 07/03/96 From: MARIO DULISSE Time: 09:55am \/To: DALE AUSTIN (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: AdeptXBBS > Greetings and Hello Bill! > ** Sunday June 30 1996 , Bill Kirby wrote to Danny Walters** : > DW>> So is the internet portion available as a seperate product or is > DW>> it only available to thosw who registered prior to it going > DW>> freeware? > BK> Adept v.1.07f, 16 nodes, Internet FREE NOW...! Later a NEW Improved > BK> ver. will be added. > DW>> -dw > BK> Bill > Did I miss something some were I was always under the impression that > ver f > was freeware but only 16 node. This did not come with internet unless you > were > a registered user. Otherwise you had to pay to get the internet features. > Correct me if I am wrong but I think not. Bill let me know were you heard > internet was free with v f. Thanks Dale, in version F internet features are *ENABLED* with or without registartion key... they *MAY* be disabled in future versions... ... Mario :-) --- AdeptXBBS v1.07g (Registered) * Origin: TelNet or FTP to pmario.soonet.ca The DogStar BBS (1:222/10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: DB400060 Date: 06/30/96 From: STEPHEN HAFFLY Time: 12:51pm \/To: CRAIG FOSTER (Read 4 times) Subj: SIO questions On (27 Jun 96) Craig Foster wrote to All... CF> Assumimg I can DL SIO, what version # or file name am I looking for? CF> An Internet FTP site would be nice, too. Hey, if it isn't like a 6gig CF> file, Internet email works too! SIO works very well for me. It was just upgraded to 1.55. You can get it from http://www.gwinn.com, or by telnet to vmbbs.gwinn.com. Since it is shareware, you can evaluate it and see if it meets your needs. It didn't take me the full period to register it. IMHO, it is much better than the stock OS/2 comm driver, which will only allow up to 57.6Kbps. The SIO driver will allow 115.2Kbps. If you are only running one or two lines, you can get the four port version. There are also versions available for many more ports at additional cost. TTYL, Stephen Team OS/2 OS/2 & Geoworks Ensemble - What a combo! slhaffly@bora.dacom.co.kr FIDO 6:760/4.3 ... Windows is to Geoworks as Etch-a-Sketch is to Art --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: A point in Yongsan (6:760/4.3)