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- From: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu.UUCP (Chris Blaise)
- Subject: Re: Running a BBS under DOS, OS/2, or Linux?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.013623.28483@uvm.edu>
- Originator: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu
- Sender: news@uvm.edu
- Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
- References: <2581@aegis.or.jp>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 01:36:23 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- From article <2581@aegis.or.jp>, by davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane):
- > I assume he wanted to do all the items on the list WHILE REMAINING
- > ONLINE.
- >
- > What your post fails to mention is currently being discussed by
- > yourself and others in alt.bbs:
- >
- > b) Inability to remain online while performing additional
- > functions under DOS. TBBS (along with other products that take over
- > the DOS entirely) needs to be shut to handle ordinary DOS applications.
- > In particular, it must be shut down to handle news and/or any program
- > that isn't written to be compatible with TBBS: Borland C++, door
- > games from non TBBS sources, WordPerfect, etc.
-
- Dave, if you had actually read my post, you would have read where I
- noted these limitations as well. Specificly:
-
- > * Door games. (I've only seen maybe 3 or 4 doors for OS/2, and none for
- > Linux. If I use the OS/2 versions of Binkley and Maximus, can I spawn
- > a DOS door game?)
- :more ( 0%):
-
- Not with TBBS. You can get TDBS (expensive) and then there are a
- wide variety of programs that others write for that (The games range
- from free to outragously expensive. There doesn't seem to be middle ground
- either. Either the game is < $10 or >$40 :(
-
- > * Background mail tossing. (I carry about 100 echo areas, and I don't want
- > the system tied up for long periods of time just unpacking new mail.)
-
- Nope. You need to take the system down and run Tmail. In my
- experience, to fully toss and link about a meg of mail takes a little over
- 15 minutes. Some people can live with that, others can't.
-
- >
- > According to what people are saying in alt.bbs, TBBS will run under
- > OS/2 even though it's not officially supported by the vendor. This
- > seems to mean that if you want to keep TBBS online and run
- > other programs at the same time, you will have to run it (and the
- > other programs) under OS/2.
-
- Unfortunately, while you could run these other programs
- locally, you couldn't run them on the BBS. TBBS has no command to run
- external dos files (save shutting down the system to run them).
-
- TTYL
- Chris
-