Subj : Software Issues
To : Daryl Stout
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Jul 08 2015 01:57 pm
07 Jul 15 11:48, you wrote to All:
DS> b) Synchronet. While SBBS allows fossil and non-fossil doors, it
DS> apparently does not like multiple configuration files for a doorgame.
DS> Yet, some of the doors require the door data in a separate directory
DS> besides the startup directory, usually in the node directory.
you need to be more specific about this... we have no problems running doors
over here that look in the node directories for the drop files... there's no
real special majic to it... maybe some .bat file variables being used but
generally speaking, the doors that are worth running have no problems with a
multinode environment or being told where to find the drop files...
DS> I also personally thought the SBBS website interface was too bland
DS> (especially compared to VADV32), and the flame wars in many of the
DS> proprietary Dove-Net echoes turned me off.
you can easily dress up the sbbs web interface... there's a few other themes
available as well as much of the interface stuff can be changed via
javascript...
of all the options, likes, wants and desires you listed, SBBS comes the closest
from what we've seen and worked with... BBBS might be another but i don't know
about operation on winwhatever... mystic might offer some of those features it
doesn't yet have in a future version but that remains to be seen... WWIV has
had a lot of work done with it but we've not looked at it recently so no real
clue what it offers these days... there's also MBSE that might be interesting
but again no clue about winwhatever or all the capabilities it offers... SBBS
has telnet, ssh, web, ftp, rlogin connectivity capabilities... the interfaces
can be modified in any of numerous ways... javascript, compiled c code, baja...
it just depends on how much work you really want to do and how deep into the
guts you really want to go rather than just dressing up a few screens here and
there... we have a love/hate relationship with SBBS and are still looking at
other packages as time permits... next on the list is BBBS and MBSE but we
don't know which will be first on the table...
