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From: jgreco@archimedes.math.uwm.edu (Joe Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: BBS programs for the C64
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Date: 20 Mar 90 00:48:37 GMT
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In article <2938@uwm.edu> yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Scott `The_Edge` Yanoff) writes:
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>2:  Why not write your own?  This is often a great way to get wht you want

Very true.  Good experience.  I'm miles ahead of everyone else in my class
because I had to learn what they are teaching us in school years ago  ;-)

>Also, perhaps you have seen Joe Greco post to this newsgroup (he does often,
>as jgreco@archimedes.math.uwm.edu)

Me?  Post?  Nah.

>He wrote the Happy Hacker BBS...it is one written by him and it is very good and since he is on the net, he could be
>easily contacted if you have questions..

Thanks for the invitation, Scott (grr)...  but seriously I never have turned
away a question.

>One thing I liked about that BBS program was that it was EASILY personalized..
>he had ALL the output in a seq file, so
>all ya gotta do is boot up your favorite word processor and edit away! :)

That was a previous version; the newer versions aren't quite so customizable in
that respect.  However, it works on a "design-yer-own-menus" concept that can
really be quite flexible, when given the options available.  It's also not
completed, and probably  will never be released.  :-(

By the way, whoever mentioned that "Sysoping is not a two hour per weekend job"
is right... it's more like a one hour a weekend job, answering mail.  I don't
have the time anymore to babysit the system, with my course load, and the
system commonly runs up 50-day uptimes.  A testament to good coding and
sturdy drives  ;-)

I'll field reasonable questions, though.

... Joe