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   BBS_CARNIVAL      Your BBS software rules and others suck      5,461 messages   

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   Daryl Stout to James Coyle   
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   15 Apr 16 11:46:00   
   
   JC>In order to install and have a fully working telnet BBS in Windows, you have   
   JC>to run literally two commands in Windows:   
      
   JC>install   
      
     I saw that when I ran the installation out of the RAR archive.   
      
   JC>mis   
      
   JC>How you managed to make that so difficult is beyond me, but you can't blame   
   JC>Mystic for the wild ideas that you seem to come up with.  If you do the same   
   JC>things you did with *any BBS software* you'll get a same or similar outcome.   
      
     I do NOT recall anything in the documentation that said anything about MIS   
   to start it up. What I saw in the documentation was under "Starting Mystic   
   BBS" -- with options of -CFG, -HOST$ , -IP$, -N#, -T#, -TID#, -U$, and -X$.   
      
   JC>I think its time to switch to one of those "easy" to use packages that you   
      
     If there was stuff out there in the docs or on the Wiki page (lots of links   
   there are empty), I wouldn't have had to constantly be a pest in this echo.   
   It's as if I was given the software with no instructions.   
      
     So, I will ABANDON the idea of switching packages...and just stick with what   
   I have.   
      
   Daryl   
      
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