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- From: rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
- Subject: Re: BBS under Windows
- Keywords: help help help
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.204220.9141@apgea.army.mil>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 20:42:20 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.174906.18596@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1992Dec30.185932.17997@news.csd.sgi.com>
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- In article <1992Dec30.185932.17997@news.csd.sgi.com> kevinb@oblivion.csd.sgi.com (Kevin Brokaw) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec30.174906.18596@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, knight@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Knight Before Christmas) writes:
- >|> I am basically looking for some BBS package that runs CORRECTLY under
- >|> MS Windows 3.1 enhanced mode. I'd prefer to use Maximus BBS, which I
- >|> am most impressed with, but it only works under standard mode.
- >
- >While I was waiting for a firmware upgrade to a new harddrive controller
- >which didn't like QEMM/Desqview, I ran my Wildcat 3.55P BBS (2 nodes) under
- >Windows 3.1 for a while (one local node, one com port locked at 19200 with
- >a V32bis modem, and a BinkleyTerm mailer frontend). While I can't say I
- >particularly loved the speed of the sessions (I was, after all, running
- >on only a 386DX-20), It was an acceptable stop-gap until I could run Desqview
- >again. Frankly, I'd recommend Desqview, as it's friendlier to comm-intensive
- >applications, and you can run Windows (albeit in standard mode... never tried
- >it in enhanced mode) from within a Desqview session).
- > The disclaimer here is that Wildcat is not free, nor is it cheap ( $99-$149
- >dollars for the single line version, depending upon what store you buy it
- >in - I saw the $99 at Software Etc), and most utilities for it are also in
- >the 50-99 dollar range. Figure a full setup with maintenance tools, and
- >Fido-net style networking capabilities will set you back about 200-250. The
- >only good side of the cost is that they have provided excellent support to me
- >when I've needed it, including rebuilding my file database once when a
- >drive glitch rendered it unreadable. Saved me at least 100 hours of having to
- >re-load all my files into the BBS. I'm sure others have had negative
- >experiences, and it's not my aim to debate BBS software packages. Simply
- >put, I run Wildcat, and it worked fine under windows unattanded for a
- >period of 2 months.
- >Cheers,
- >Kevin
- >
- >--
- >Kevin Brokaw (kevinb@csd.sgi.com) |
- >Product support engineer | Sorry, this closet is for anxieties.
- >Silicon Graphics Computer Systems | Pipe dreams are under the bed.
- >(Forgive them,they know not what I post)|
-
-
- Question: Does WildCat still have that horrable message base system? I
- was on "the" wildcat board for this area a while back. (It was the test drive
- version BTW) And if there were replys to a message, you HAD TO read all
- the messages in that thread before going to the next message. If there
- were 20 some replys to a message about cross stiching, you were stuck reading
- those things! I though Wild Cat was well done and I've always heard they
- were well supported but the message base gave me the shivers!
-
- Rob Merritt
-