Subj : What BBS Software Runs on Linux?
To   : Scott Little
From : mark lewis
Date : Tue May 19 2015 10:08 am


On Tue, 19 May 2015, Scott Little wrote to mark lewis:

SL>  [ On 2015-05-09 at 22:12:44, mark lewis wrote to Shawn Highfield ]

ml> if it were elebbs, the pascal source is definitely available... it
ml> is also FPC compatible, i think... maybe not... it may have been VP

SL> Definitely VP compatible and more or less FPC compatible (I seem
SL> to remember an issue with serial ports on particular versions of
SL> FPC).

yeah, i haven't done anything with it, yet... if/when i do, it will be with
FPC...

ml> compatible... i don't recall but i have it here from its github
ml> repository ;)

SL> Don't know how recent those are... I haven't done any work for a
SL> few years and I don't remember the last time Maarten did.

what's in maarten's github is v1.0 with a request to send him updates so he can
apply them... there have been no additions or updates since maarten created
that repo...

ml> do you know if scott has a public accessible repo for his builds
ml> of ele??

SL> It's been so long since I've touched the source I don't remember
SL> what state it's in.

i can understand that :)

SL> Recompiled binaries from the current source tree, unsure if this
SL> revision has been tested though.

SL> Source: http://sysgod.org/temp/20130208/elebbs-20130208_src.zip
SL> OS/2 VirtualPascal:
SL> http://sysgod.org/temp/20130208/elebbs-20130208_os2vp.zip Win32
SL> VirtualPascal:
SL> http://sysgod.org/temp/20130208/elebbs-20130208_w32vp.zip Win32
SL> FreePascal:
SL> http://sysgod.org/temp/20130208/elebbs-20130208_w32fp.zip

SL> The ones on my BBS are from 2008 (!!), except for EleServ which is
SL> more current since that what I was working on mostly.  Those old
SL> binaries are still on PCMicro:
SL> http://pcmicro.com/elebbs/binaries.htm

thanks... i'll take a look :)

)\/(ark


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