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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!gail.ripco.com!dr From: dr@ripco.com (David Richards) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BBS for FreeBSD Date: 9 Feb 1997 02:00:56 GMT Organization: Ripco Communications Inc. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5djb4o$d8n$1@gail.ripco.com> References: <5dj7gn$dlr@news.netusa.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rci.ripco.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35190 In article <5dj7gn$dlr@news.netusa.net>, John Woodstock <woody@woodyware.com> wrote: >I followed this lead to Waffle.. Seems to be a dead lead.. > >What is out there today? > >(I didn't see any in the 2.1.6/7 ports - I didn't think anyway..) We bought waffle years ago, it wasn't all that great. The best bet is to build versions of 'tin', 'pine' and 'lynx' without any ability to shell out, run parsers (uudecode, unshar, MIME), or save to arbitrary files, then just add the users like any other account, except with a special 'shell'. It's a lot of work... Does anybody know if MajorBBS runs on FreeBSD ? -- David Richards Ripco, since Nineteen-Eighty-Three My opinions are my own, Public Access in Chicago But they are available for rental Shell/SLIP/PPP/UUCP/ISDN/Leased dr@ripco.com (773) 665-0065 !Free Usenet/E-Mail!