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From: kenh@wrl.epi.com (Ken Hornstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: BBS software
Date: 24 Feb 1994 09:35:41 -0500
Organization: Entropic Research Laboratory, Washington DC
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In article <2kej16$8fi@cleese.apana.org.au>,
Trevor Lampre <trevor@cleese.apana.org.au> wrote:
>I presently run a Maximus BBS under OS/2. I have just set up a new machine
>running FreeBSD to give my users Internet access. Some of them would like
>to stick with the old BBS style interface rather than use Unix (cowards!).
>I've got copies of XBBS and PBBS. Both are written with System V in mind.
>Has anyone ported these to *BSD or know of an alternative? 

Waffle has been ported to numerous Berkeley-derived Unixes; you have to pay
to get the source code, though.

--Ken