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From: system@micromed.com (Duane Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: BBS software
Message-ID: <RJ8Bic1w165w@micromed.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 20:27:02 PST
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kenh@wrl.epi.com (Ken Hornstein) writes:

> 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

I recently switched to Waffle from a DOS PCBoard clone. So far I've gotten
nothing but complaints about the crappy user interface. There's got to be
something better that'll run with FreeBSD.


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