Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!unlinfo.unl.edu!hoss!greg From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: MD-BASIC (was: Re: Apple ][ BBS Software) Message-ID: <1991Jun6.203335.4380@unlinfo.unl.edu> Date: 6 Jun 91 20:33:35 GMT References: <1991Jun6.081606.23061@crash.cts.com> Sender: news@unlinfo.unl.edu Organization: GBBS/ACOS Sysop Support Lines: 70 Nntp-Posting-Host: hoss.unl.edu larry@pro-odyssey.cts.com (System Administrator) writes: >greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury, Jr.) writes: >>If ProLine had a way to tell it it was running off of multiple disks >>instead of one partiton then I wouldn't be having so many problems. Seems >>the largest the system can get is 32 MB. Alot of that is going to be used >>for your networking "needs". >I think you have gone beyond distortion of facts. Why don't you just lay off. Hey, if I say something in error, PLEASE point it out. You might just change my mind! I may in fact switch from running ACOS to running ProLine. However I am trying my best to react in a civil manner to this flame. >A few postings back you complain about Adding external software for support, Adding? I thought I was saying all the enhancements one could realistically do without MD-BASIC was adding, not changing of the core. AppleSoft is not designed for large applications. Key routines get lost in the number pool. >and just a few posting back you suggest to use Proterm to edit the program >you support. I suggest it, but I don't say it is required. For a long time I used FreeWriter. I don't own ProTERM only for editing program segments. I also use it for its primary purpose. >And the above posting is about as false as you can get. Many Proline SysOps >run their system with a minimum of two partitions (You can use an indefinate >amount with a IIgs). Since it is a ProDOS 8 application, aren't you limited to those provided by ProDOS 8? If there is some way around this other than SCSI.PART that can allow an infinite number of partitions via an 8-bit application, I'm sure EVERYONE will be interested in knowing how. From what I've seen so far, stock ProLine assumes it will be residing in one partition. Let's just say I'm skeptical that you can access all storage on, say a 32 GB drive, using ProDOS 8. That's 1024 partitions, minimum. >So it you want to preach do it UNHIPOCRITICAL (is that a word? Er, non-hipocritically? Perhaps a topic for alt.usage.english. :-) Then again, I just might be taken to alt.flame.spelling, since I'm not sure on that bit. :-) >who cares it fits) The meaning is carried through. :-) >and have your facts unbiased and true. I freely admit that ProLine does have many features that are not found in other Apple BBS software. However I do maintain that it is NOT the only choice one can make. Different people have different needs, and different hardware and $ restrictions. Too many people see "suggestion for an Apple BBS wanted" and pop up with their suggestion of ProLine, before reading on "I have an Apple //e, 2 5.25" drives, no hard drive, and a limited budget." >Internet: larry@pro-odyssey.cts.com >UUCP: crash!pro-odyssey!larry -- /// ____ \\\ "The major problem--one of the major problems, for there are | |/ / \ \| | several--one of the many major problems with governing \\_|\____/|_// people is of whom you get to do it, or more to the greg \_\\\/ hoss.unl.edu point, who gets people to let them do it to them."