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    From gregzoll@VERT/ECBBS to all on Friday, February 28, 2020 20:28:36
    I have spent a week trying to get Dormouse stable on Linux and beating myself against the wall, because as I get one thing working, something else breaks. I thought that my last divorce was going to kill me.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to gregzoll on Friday, February 28, 2020 21:56:00
    gregzoll wrote to all <=-

    I have spent a week trying to get Dormouse stable on Linux and
    beating myself against the wall, because as I get one thing
    working, something else breaks.

    What are you having trouble with?

    Folks here can probably help, if you provide some details.



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  • From Nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to Gamgee on Saturday, February 29, 2020 07:03:07
    Gamgee wrote:
    gregzoll wrote to all <=-

    I have spent a week trying to get Dormouse stable on Linux and
    beating myself against the wall, because as I get one thing
    working, something else breaks.

    What are you having trouble with?

    Folks here can probably help, if you provide some details.

    Also a link to the offending article so it can be downloaded and tested by others.

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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to Nelgin on Saturday, February 29, 2020 10:20:33
    Re: Re: SBBS and Ubuntu
    By: Nelgin to Gamgee on Sat Feb 29 2020 07:03:07


    I have spent a week trying to get Dormouse stable on Linux and
    beating myself against the wall, because as I get one thing
    working, something else breaks.

    What are you having trouble with?

    Folks here can probably help, if you provide some details.

    Also a link to the offending article so it can be downloaded and tested by others.

    unless i'm mistaken, "What the Dormouse Said" is his new sbbs installation that is called "Dormouse" for short...


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  • From gregzoll@VERT/ECBBS to Gamgee on Saturday, February 29, 2020 14:04:10
    What are you having trouble with?

    Folks here can probably help, if you provide some details.

    ... I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain just to eat vegetables! --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52
    þ Synchronet þ Palantir BBS * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL


    Just trying to get it stable while attempting migration of data from the windows install. I broke it somehow yesterday and have to start from scratch. Along with broke the Timeshift restore. Just trying to get back to remembering how to do things in Linux after not using it for some time.

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  • From gregzoll@VERT/ECBBS to Nelgin on Saturday, February 29, 2020 14:07:24
    Gamgee wrote:

    Also a link to the offending article so it can be downloaded and tested by others.

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    Chris Wilson's guide has been pretty straightforward in getting things
    running. https://www.netexconsult.com/blog/linux-unix/installing-synchronet-bb s-with-dosemu-support-on-debian-9-5-stretch/. I need to remember to do the Linux Webv4 install not migrate over the Windows Webv4 stuff from the backup of the folder before I started this project.

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  • From Mortifis@VERT/ALLEYCAT to gregzoll on Saturday, February 29, 2020 15:54:03
    Gamgee wrote:

    Also a link to the offending article so it can be downloaded and tested by others.

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    Chris Wilson's guide has been pretty straightforward in getting things running. https://www.netexconsult.com/blog/linux-unix/installing-synchronet-bb s-with-dosemu-support-on-debian-9-5-stretch/. I need to remember to do the Linux Webv4 install not migrate over the Windows Webv4 stuff from the backup of the folder before I started this project.

    This may help a bit for the migration part. http://wiki.synchro.net/faq:misc#migration

    dosemu is trickier ... http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:dosemu

    Hope this helps

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Nelgin on Saturday, February 29, 2020 14:34:00
    Nelgin wrote to Gamgee <=-

    I have spent a week trying to get Dormouse stable on Linux and
    beating myself against the wall, because as I get one thing
    working, something else breaks.

    What are you having trouble with?
    Folks here can probably help, if you provide some details.

    Also a link to the offending article so it can be downloaded and
    tested by others.

    Huh? Offending article?



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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to gregzoll on Saturday, February 29, 2020 14:52:00
    gregzoll wrote to Gamgee <=-

    What are you having trouble with?
    Folks here can probably help, if you provide some details.

    Just trying to get it stable while attempting migration of data
    from the windows install. I broke it somehow yesterday and have
    to start from scratch. Along with broke the Timeshift restore.
    Just trying to get back to remembering how to do things in Linux
    after not using it for some time.

    All right, well holler if you have any specific questions. Plenty
    of folks here who are fluent with Linux.



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  • From Nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to Rampage on Saturday, February 29, 2020 17:26:35
    Rampage wrote:
    Re: Re: SBBS and Ubuntu
    By: Nelgin to Gamgee on Sat Feb 29 2020 07:03:07


    I have spent a week trying to get Dormouse stable on Linux and
    beating myself against the wall, because as I get one thing
    working, something else breaks.

    What are you having trouble with?

    Folks here can probably help, if you provide some details.

    Also a link to the offending article so it can be downloaded and tested by others.

    unless i'm mistaken, "What the Dormouse Said" is his new sbbs installation that is called "Dormouse" for short...


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    I guess I misread what he was asking for since I've not heard of sbbs be unstable on Linux. *shrug*

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  • From Gregz@VERT/WHATTHED to Nelgin on Saturday, February 29, 2020 20:46:47
    Rampage wrote:

    I guess I misread what he was asking for since I've not heard of sbbs be unstable on Linux. *shrug*

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    It is unstable if you try to do things that can break things. I do believe that it is now stable and running. Everyone is welcome to check it out. The number pointers are now showing on the web when you go to the forums on the website side of things. Now I just need to get the Matrix login back in, work on the DDMSGReader stuff (kind of confused when it comes to editing the text.dat for it to run and work out of there. I had issues with it when I tried to run it in Windows.

    "Remember what the dormouse said: feed your head."
    What the Dormouse Said - whatthed.synchro.net

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to GAMGEE on Saturday, February 29, 2020 18:39:00
    Also a link to the offending article so it can be downloaded and
    tested by others.

    Huh? Offending article?

    It must have a lot of bad words in it.


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  • From Gregz@VERT/WHATTHED to Dumas Walker on Sunday, March 01, 2020 01:10:43
    It must have a lot of bad words in it.

    * SLMR 2.1a * BUFFERS=20 FILES=15 2nd down, 4th quarter, 5 yards to go!

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    Yeah, I divorced it because she liked spending money too much and thought that the world revolved around her.

    I have found it to be a trial by the seat of my pants in getting it up and running on Linux. The deeper down the rabbit hole that you go, the more that you find out how much more that you learn in doing things.

    I grew up around this stuff and come from a house that ran programs on paper tape and punch cards in the beginning. I was still running programs on paper tape in the 80's while in the Navy.

    "Remember what the dormouse said: feed your head."
    What the Dormouse Said - whatthed.synchro.net

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to GREGZ on Sunday, March 01, 2020 11:50:00
    I grew up around this stuff and come from a house that ran programs on paper tape and punch cards in the beginning. I was still running programs on paper tape in the 80's while in the Navy.

    I used to have a box of cards in my office. They had quit using them by
    the time I started there, but they were still around. In the mid-90's I
    worked for a company that had an AS/400 that still used "drum memory."
    When they had to get a new unit, they had to buy it from a company in
    Brazil. Apparently, they were the only other ones still using it.


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