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- From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
- Subject: Re: Gopher Server under Linux or BSD386?
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 21:34:34 GMT
- Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- References: <1993Jan26.220958.10596@ac.dal.ca>
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- Philip M. Howard (phoward@ac.dal.ca) wrote:
- : Our site is considering a "low cost Unix" option for our Gopher server
- : platform. Has anyone had any experience with a 386/486 running Linux or BSD386?
- : In short... Does it work? Is it difficult?
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- gopher.msen.com is running on a 486 under BSDI. Works just fine.
- Running under 386BSD should work OK too.
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- I have had some nagging problems getting the byte order in the
- WAIS server code to compile, tho - it's probably ten lines of
- code to fix all told, and I know which ten, just dont' quite know
- what to do with them.
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- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
- Msen Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 998 GLOB
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