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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.cuhk.edu.hk!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!insync!news.hal-pc.org!black.gensys.com!jhupp From: jhupp@black.gensys.com (Jeff Hupp) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Any BBS's run on FreeBSD? Date: 17 Feb 96 05:57:22 GMT Organization: Houston Area League of PC Users Lines: 25 Message-ID: <jhupp.824536642@black.gensys.com> References: <4fflhi$3rq@daily-planet.execpc.com> <4g1kdf$r29@news.ios.com> <31254E63.1CFBAE39@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: black.gensys.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: >Tom Sullivan wrote: >> My ISP runs "The Major BBS" on a BSDI system, so it could be that they have a >> version for FreeBSD also. >It could also be that the BSDI version will run just fine on a FreeBSD >system! :-) Well, I should qualify that. If the binaries were >generated on a BSDI 1.x system then it'll work great. If it was a BSDI >2.x system then you'll have to get the patches from FreeBSD-current >(unless one is already running -current) which allows BSDI 2.x binaries >to also work. It's a simple patch. They offer both versions (BSDI 2.x and 1.x) you just have to specify what you want when you order. Nice X interface too. The 1.x version runs fine on 2.0.5 and 2.1 (from personal experence) -- Jeff -- X, windows done right... Jeff Hupp <Jhupp@gensys.com> <http://gensys.com> PGP Public Key available at http://gensys.com or on the key servers