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From: jph@ais.org (Joseph Hillenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Project: A Public Domain BBS System...
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Date: 8 Feb 91 20:24:20 GMT
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In article <1042@ra.MsState.Edu> jra1@ra.MsState.Edu (Mephisto) writes:
>Someone who gets ahold of amiga unix should port the software we use on  
>the MARS HOTEL (mars.ee.msstate.edu).  Of course one would want to use an
>amiga hooked up to the internet....

You do NOT need to port it. The software SHOULD run as-is. PiratesBBS is a
very nice system, and seems to be very portable across UNIX platforms.

Thats the way UNIX is set up. You should have to make little or no mods to
port a program to your system.

>
>You can find the source at the MARS HOTEL.
>
>
>that's
>
>           mars.ee.msstate.edu
>           130.18.64.3

WRONG. The sysops have said you should ftp to it's sister machine,
Trantor.EE.MsState.Edu (130.18.64.2)

>
>           login as bbs
>

FTP in.

>jeff
>jra1@ra.msstate.edu


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