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Skriven 2005-06-06 22:54:03 av Michiel Broek (2:280/2802)
    Kommentar till text 248 av Maurice Kinal (1:340/401.1)
Ärende: Re: ZLIB compression
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Hi maurice,

Maurice Kinal wrote to Michiel Broek:
MK> Hey Michiel!
MK> 
MK> Jun 06 11:49 05, Michiel Broek wrote to Maurice Kinal:
MK> 
MK>  MB> It should work under dosemu, but I used it using dos under VMware to 
MK>  MB> compile
MK>  MB> the new MakeNL for dos.
MK> 
MK> That makes sense.  Was looking at VMware the other day and they want a tad 

MK> much for a host Linux machine.  Maybe later but don't hold your breath.  
MK> ;-)

Most software I find to expensive for what it does, this one is affordable.
At least it will save a lot of boxes to maintain. Previously I used old
boxes with as many hd's in it that would fit and dual/tripple booted these
boxes. But then you need extra keyboards and mouses (for the Win versions)
just to select the right OS to boot. After that it's networking of course.

If you just want to experiment once and a while I guess it is too expensive.
But here I needed too much other systems that this will save a lot of room.

MK> Saw a couple versions up for grabs on eBay for a reasonable price but they 

MK> were for host MS driven machines.  I personally have no interest in that, 
MK> no matter how cheap.

These are probably old versions that can't be upgraded for a small fee. Only
from version 4 and up this tool is really good. I have a version 5, that
allows complete networked teams with several boxes connected via virtual
lans. I can build my own small fidonet for testing on one box.

MK>  MB> It should compile, but I'm not sure. Anyway binkp in dos is not worth 

MK>  MB> the
MK>  MB> troubles, there are too many different tcp/ip stacks for dos and non 
MK>  MB> of
MK>  MB> them are easy to use.
MK>  MB> But djgpp under Windows is a good alternative.
MK> 
MK> I've only used djgpp in a DOS enviroment.  It worked fine there but I 
MK> never networked with that box, not even ppp.  It did run a serial based 
MK> BBS nicely though but I honestly think Linux is the best choice for a BBS.

I think djgpp in dos is a bit stripped, but that is because of the dos
limitations. In the end any *nix system is best for a bbs. If it would have
been available in the early bbs days we would have seen more unix based
bbses instead large systems that were made of many dos boxes and a novell
server.

MK>  MK>> Right.  I'd probably do the same.  Have you ever tried wine as a 
MK>  MK>> possible enviroment for such a scheme?
MK> 
MK>  MB> Yes, but there were too many compatibility issues for what I need. 
MK> 
MK> That's what I've heard.

Me too, and tried also.




    Greetings, Michiel Broek

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