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   On 7/29/11 6:31 PM, Nicholas Boel wrote:   
   >   >  No editing of source needed;  MBSE configures much like most of the DOS   
   >   >  based BBSs of the past.  With directories for ANSI/text files, a    
   program   
   >   >  to edit all of the system's functions to include menus.   
   >   
   > This must be some kind of difference between compiling the source, and RJ's   
   > .deb package? I've already installed it, and can't find any ansi files for    
   the   
   > life of me. Then again, for some reason MBSE likes to take over your whole   
   > system, not being able to put everything into subdirectories of /opt/mbse. I   
   > can look further, but so far I haven't found anything.   
      
   Hmmm,  must be the way RJ packaged it.  I'm a Gentoo user, so I'm used    
   to compiling (or watching everything compile).  By default, the build    
   process for MBSE puts everything under /opt/mbse.   
      
      
   > Also, I wasn't able to get it to compile properly. Are there any    
   dependencies I   
   > might not have installed? I wasn't able to just follow the directions from    
   the   
   > website, that's for sure.   
      
   I haven't used a pre-compiled package manager system in ages.   RJ can    
   you chime in on how you packaged MBSE and where stuff landed on the    
   filesystem.   
      
   by default,  /opt/mbse/share/int/txtfiles//*.ans, is where the    
   ANSI/ASCII files should be found.   
      
   Though, I admin, I haven't ever installed it from anything but source;    
   even on a Ubuntu VM I was doing testing on for a 64bit arch build issue    
   I configured from source.   
      
      
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