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From: umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Minix: BBS, NFS, multiport questions
Message-ID: <1990Oct12.235546.22519@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 12 Oct 90 23:55:46 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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I have several Minix questions here.
 
1) Are there any multi user BBS programs available for Minix?  2 users would
   be fine, more even better.   If there isn't a 'real' BBS for Minix, what
   about doing something like: use 'rn' for a public message base, 'ean' for
   private mail, and 'sz' for file xfers?  I assume Minix has the same style
   of file security that Unix does, <ie user, group, others>?
  
2) There was a discussion about having more than a 2 user Minix with an
   AST Multiport board.  I have a serial card with all 4 ports on the card.
   It isn't intelligent however, could that be used to get 4 users on Minix?
 
3) Is there NFS for Minix?  I would like to have one machine running Minix
   and another running DOS and PC-NFS, could I then use Minix as a server?
  
The machine this would be running on:
286-10, 4 meg ram, 60 megs of storage.
  
Thanks,
Charles