--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: DFK00016 Date: 11/15/96 From: HRVOJE BARTOLIN Time: 08:02am \/To: RAYMOND ROSCH (Read 3 times) Subj: ANSI.SYS :( * Raymond Rosch, in a message to All, wrote : RR> I've got a problem with the ANSI.SYS that's in the MDOS directory, RR> the ANSI's don't all come up as they're supposed to.. I do get the RR> colours, blocks, etc, just some of the items look like the letters RR> from a foreign language, I's that have a "leaning" dot, etc.. ANSI.SYS is in x:\os2\mdos\ directory. Preporuam se, Bart --- Blue Wave/OS2 v2.30 * Origin: IBM-OS/2 Croatia * 385 1 6124-689 (2:381/146) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: DFK00017 Date: 11/15/96 From: TONY LOMBARDO Time: 08:41pm \/To: PAOLO ROSA (Read 3 times) Subj: Problem! TL> What do you think is causing this? PR> Maindoor 1.01 is a very buggy software. I have PR> registered and used for a long period Maindoor 1.02 and Hmm..Ok. Uhmm...Where can I get 1.02? TL> And WHAT VERSION OF MAINDOOR/2 IS LATEST AND WHERE CAN I FREQ IT PR> I have heard of a beta version of the upcoming 1.10 PR> release only in spanish... not too hard to understand PR> for me, italian ... nor for you... Tony Lombardo :-) PR> Are you of italian origin ? American from how many PR> generations ? Where do you live ? Have you ever been PR> in Italy ? I am of italian origin, and so are my parents and grandmother. BACK ON TOPIC - Where can I get MainDoor/2 v1.02? Tony --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: The Creative Edge! - Danbury, CT - (203) 791-8532 (1:141/950) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: DFK00018 Date: 11/15/96 From: TONY LOMBARDO Time: 08:45pm \/To: KENNY MILLER (Read 3 times) Subj: Maindoor KM> I recently went out in search of Maindoor for OS/2. I KM> found version 1.10, but KM> only the Spanish version, no English one to be found, KM> so I had to resort to KM> Kenny KM> --- Renegade v 05-11 KM> * Origin: Exotic Manueverz * Fayetteville, NC * 910-864-9623 1:3634/44) Where did you get 1.02? is it possible I could FREQ it from you? Regards, Tony --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: The Creative Edge! - Danbury, CT - (203) 791-8532 (1:141/950) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: DFK00019 Date: 11/15/96 From: KENNY MILLER Time: 11:27pm \/To: MATT VALITES (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Maindoor MV> Well since i run the english version.. MV> I have 1.02 for freq under hte magic name "MAINDOOR/2" MV> I can't remeebr it's "home" internet site.. Thanks Matt, I found 1.2 on the net. There is an entire directory for aindoor on juge.com. I may grab a few others like Xenia/2 and T-mail and see what gives me the ost options. Thanks again! Kenny --- Renegade v 05-11 * Origin: Exotic Manueverz * Fayetteville, NC * 910-864-9623 (1:3634/44) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: DFK00020 Date: 11/15/96 From: KENNY MILLER Time: 11:30pm \/To: TONY LOMBARDO (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Problem! TL> KM> install or did you have TL> KM> Maximus up before running Maindoor? TL> They were a fresh install. Ok... did you install SIO from Ray Gwinn or are you using the Comm drivers that came with OS/2? I HIGHLY recommend you grab the latest SIO package if ou don't have it already. Also, do you notice any problems any place other than transfers? TL> And WHAT VERSION OF MAINDOOR/2 IS LATEST AND WHERE CAN I FREQ IT TL> Thanks I appreciate it. Not a prob! Kenny --- Renegade v 05-11 * Origin: Exotic Manueverz * Fayetteville, NC * 910-864-9623 (1:3634/44) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: DFL00000 Date: 11/16/96 From: MARK LOOFBURROW Time: 08:47am \/To: MARCEL VAN OSENBRUGGEN (Read 3 times) Subj: easy way for Usenet <--> FTN mail Hello Marcel! 15 Nov 96, Marcel van Osenbruggen writes to Mark Loofburrow: ML>> FXUUICO is the 'transport' or mailer. It does the calling to ML>> the Unix system and transfers the mail. Gigo does ML>> the Usenet/Email<>Echomail/Netmail translation. MO> OK. I get that one. Good. ML>> Actually on my system: FXUUCIO gets the mail, Gigo translates ML>> it, Pktsort sorts and splits long messages, Squish tosses it, ML>> Netmgr filters it and finally Binkleyterm sends it out. MO> That sounds complicated. GIGI makes PKT files? Yep. FXUUCIO delivers files to a SPOOL directory.I have about 400 newsgroups coming in or about 3-5MB of .ZIP compressed newsgroups/email every two hours. Gigo translates/converts Usenet newsgroups into into Fidonet echomail and Email into Fidonet Netmail. I have Gigo setup to deliver 256K packets to a 'inbound' directory. I have a REXX script that will count the files in the 'inbound' directory and copy only 28 of the files at a time to a 'in' directory. Hence, PKTSORT and Squish only have to deal with 7MB of uncompressed mail at a time. Pktsort _sorts_ the packets so that the newsgroups/echomail areas are in order so Squish can toss faster. Pktsort also splits long messages according to Fidonet specifications so that no message being tossed by Squish is longer than 12K. (many of the usenet messages are more then a few hundreed K) My downlinks get packets that are sorted and they can toss faster to their downlinks. MO> netmgr scannes for the e-mail names of the point? I run Squish in two pass mode. The first pass tosses echomail, then Netmgr is used for extra nodelist lookup for bouncing messages to nonexistant nodes, encrypted mail bouncing, junkmail deletion, SPAM deletion and setting the proper flags on netmail messages so that they will be removed out of my netmail directory after tossing. MO> How is the outgoing MO> (fido to email) route of a message en visa versa? Could you get a bit MO> more precise about the thing every programs does... Squish then again is ran for Netmail this time. Since I have a busy system and 10 or so direct links that HUB the newsgroups, my system is to busy to call directly _every_ fidonet system in our local NET. Hence, I have a Very LARGE routing table in Squishes ROUTE.CFG that HUBROUTES all netmail messages to our local NETHUBS. 105/00-105/99 and 105/1000-105/1999 goto HUB1000, 105/100-105/199 goto HUB100, 105/200-105/299 goto HUB200, exc. Squish routes and packs the netmail for all the downlinks. The .CMD file then sets a Binkleyterm Rescan flag in my outbound directory and exits. All the above happens in the background every two hours. I hope this helps, Mark - Sysop/Sysadmin GATE306/Crystals.aloha.or.us --- GoldED/2 2.50.Beta5+ * Origin: *The Crystal Ship* PDX Internet Gateway v34+ [CM/MO/LO] 1:105/306) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: DFL00001 Date: 11/15/96 From: GEIR_EIVIND MORK Time: 05:09pm \/To: THOMAS RYAN (Read 3 times) Subj: WIN/Sharing IRQs/Fossils Hi Thomas! GM>> Win95 ?? You sure have hit the wrong place.. Os2 Merlin is a better GM>> choice and you're in a OS2BBS Echo.. > What are the advantages of Merlin over Warp and/or Warp+Connect ? Haven't tried it so much yet, still use my old warp (connect).. ask those who have installed it on their systems.. .tDr. ... Tagline found on Martian meteorite: "We come in peace." _; |___ ___ ___ _ _ ___ ___ ! the dreamer of d-RAM productions. | - | - | -_| - | ^ | -_| - | : Using SkyReader/2 v0.59b, BBBS/2 and OS2! `---'-/_|---^-"-^---^---^-/_| . the dreamers bbs - +47 74 27 91 13, 24h --- BBBS/2 v3.33 How-A * Origin: Dreamers BBS - Running BBBS/2 v3.33, BoGus & Backdoor! (2:212/23) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: DFL00002 Date: 11/16/96 From: STEPHEN M BROWN Time: 02:46am \/To: BILL BROWN (Read 3 times) Subj: QWK door for Squish * Bill Brown to Stephen M Brown * on 11-14-96 14:37 about QWK door for Squish BB> Hello Stephen, BB> Wednesday November 13 1996 12:16, Stephen M Brown wrote to All: SMB> BW is rumored to be coming out with QWK packet support but that SMB> is not *now*. I need it now. BB> Don't hold your breath. Why would I? I didn't hold my breath for Windows 4.0 (aka 95). It's a good thing I didn't either. BB> Excerpts from a local conference follow: If George decided to "get a life", my hat goes off to him. I think you missed the point of my message: I am looking for a QWK door for Max/Squish, OS/2 version if possible. Thanks for your concern. --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: Shizuoka Echo BBS: Home of JAPAN_LINK International Echo (6:730/40.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: DFL00003 Date: 11/16/96 From: STEPHEN M BROWN Time: 02:57am \/To: RANDY EDWARDS (Read 3 times) Subj: QWK door for Squish * Randy Edwards to Stephen M Brown * on 11-14-96 16:41 about QWK door for Squish RE> On Nov 13 12:16 96, Stephen M Brown of 6:730/40 wrote: SMB> The OLR build into Max is useless or I wouldn't be looking. RE> Please explain/clarify; what is wrong with Max's QWK support and RE> what specifically are the features you're looking for? . What's wrong with Max's OLR? Simple, it ignores the message area number *I* have assigned to the conferences and makes it's own numbers "on the fly". If a new echo gets inserted, everything gets bumped. Very confusing to the QWK door users. Such inconsistency also makes it easy to post a private message to a public area by mistake. Features? Really nothing more than was stated in my original posting: a QWK mail door for Max/Squish; runs native under OS/2 (if possible) and not plagued but the same flaw as the OLR. --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: Shizuoka Echo BBS: Home of JAPAN_LINK International Echo (6:730/40.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: DFL00004 Date: 11/14/96 From: TONY LANGDON Time: 08:29am \/To: NICK SHREDERS (Read 3 times) Subj: OS/2 Shell It's 05 Nov 96 18:52:58, We'll return to Nick Shreders and All's discussion of OS/2 Shell NS> 4 times now, 3 of them in one day. Why? Because of it's *SEVERE* NS> incompatibility with DOS. Yes, that's right, sure it runs them fine, NS> but I'm *ALWAYS* getting SCREWED UP EA files, even though I don't run NS> any DOS programs that will choke on the EA files. The only reason I am NS> running OS/2 is because of 2 reasons: Hmm, are you always running under OS/2? Or do you dual boot? I haven't had any problems with EA's here, but I did design my drive partitions to minimise any possibility of trouble. I have the following: C: - DOS boot partition. This is FAT (obviously! :) ), and contains only DOS and Windows s/w. The only extended attributes here are created if I happen to edit a config file with e.exe. :-) D: - Another FAT drive. This contains the DOS based components of the BBS. EA situation same as for C: E: - HPFS OS/2 partition. OS/2 boots off here, and resides on this partition. I also have my OS/2 applications (including those used with the BBS) on this partition. Baing HPFS, the EA's are stored in the directories, and this partition is inaccessible if I boot from DOS (providing two levels of protection from EA corruption :) ). FYI, I'm using Boot Manager to select which OS I want to boot. :-) NS> 1) The BBS software package im running currently isnt supported for NS> Linux 2) Because of that, I need a multi-tasker, I hate windows, and NS> OS/2 is in my opinion is a damn good multi-tasker, second to Linux. Agreed. You only other choice would be DESQView, for a pure DOS based system. :-) NS> Could someone explain to me why IBM was to freaking lazy to store the NS> EA's in a standard file so I have to re-install ALL of OS/2 10 tens a NS> week because one of them decides corrupt itself? Because the FAT flesystem doesn't have the space in its directory structure to store EA's. HPFS does store EA's in its directory structure. If you can, install BootManager, and use HPFS for your OS/2 boot partition. :-) NS> Also, does anyone know of any good textmode shells for OS/2? This NS> would save huge amounts of RAM, I only need the bare skeleton of OS/2, NS> not all it's RAM comsuming pretty graphical stuff ... Have you tried TShell? It comes with Warp. Good luck. A friend of mine had the same problem, when he let DOS directly access his OS/2 files, and had to re-install. Now, he's running pure OS/2 and HPFS, and is having no problems. BTW, also think about running native OS/2 s/w for your BBS, if you can. I'm intending to upgrade my system to native apps (almost all of them have an OS/2 direct replacement), when I get around to buying a larger HDD for the BBS. :-) ... If plugging it in doesn't help, turn it on --- FMail/386 1.02 * Origin: The Bridge - Remote Sysop. (3:635/728.18)