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|    Robert Wolfe to Jeff Smith    |
|    BBS's?    |
|    28 Feb 16 19:43:40    |
      > I have tried many BBS software packages since I got into BBSing in the late       > 80's. I have had a few BBS's that I did like. but that never kept me from       > looking at an evaluating and testing others.              This is basically what I do, but my main BBS is pretty much running the       software I want right now. THis system is basically just Fido messages only.              > I started out with WC using a early version of DOS v2.0 on an XT machine. I       > myself never got into setting up too many doors. My focus seemed to me to be       > more toward messages and files. I got into Windows prior to Windows v3.0 but              Yeah, my main system at winserver.org runs a very modified Wildcat!       Interactive Net Server setup while this one here at r13.winserver.org runs       flat BBBS/NT.              > In trying differant BBS packages. I have noticed the wide variety of learning       > curves involved in the installation and setup. Some don't involve much more       > than       >clicking on or loading a install/setup program. While others require the SysOp       > to actually compile their own software from source code. Then there is the       > degree,       > quality, and comprehensiveness of the documentation.              I have to admit that Wildcat! 6 fails in the documentation department as new       orders for the product as some ship wihtou manuals and those that do, like       mine, ship with manuals for version 5.x.                     >> Take care,       >> Janis              >> --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-2       >> * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)              > Jeff              --- BBBS/NT v4.10 Dada-1        * Origin: Neptune's Lair ][ | Memphis TN | r13.winserver.org (1:261/20)    |
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