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From: grohol@novavax.UUCP (John Grohol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: (none)
Message-ID: <2435@novavax.UUCP>
Date: 21 May 91 02:28:01 GMT
References: <9105151430.AA25397@apple.com>
Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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ENT0022@OUACCVMB.BITNET writes:

>Hello everyone, I am interested to setup me own BBS but I do not have any
>experiment.  Could anyone provide me the information regarding to how to
>setup BBS, what kind of BBS software I should use.  What kind of thing I
>should aware of.

I can only assume you are running some kind of Apple II (since ya posted 
it here...) So that leaves you with about 6 choices, 2 of which are
the only real programs to run on an Apple II for a BBS.

GBBS Pro (from L&L) is the "standard" of Apple II BBS's. It's been
around for years... Its relatively easy to program in, but has
lousy support (my experience). It also has language limitations
which we programmers constantly have to work around (ie.- no
integers greater than 32,000). However, with a lot of tweaking, its
a nice program. I ran a GBBS board for 2 years.

Metal is the newcomer. All I've heard is good things about it. I have
seen a number of boards using Metal, and they don't look or act much
differently than GBBS. I haven't seen code for Metal. 

My two cents worth...

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