Xref: utzoo comp.unix.microport:469 comp.unix.xenix:1930 comp.unix.questions:6524 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!uflorida!beach.cis.ufl.edu!bjs From: bjs@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Brian J. Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.questions Subject: Microport questions by the pound Message-ID: <14543@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Date: 11 Apr 88 18:34:56 GMT Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Reply-To: bjs@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Brian J. Smith) Organization: UF CIS Department Lines: 43 Keywords: microport,bbs,SysV,drugs_on_the_brain Ok. there comes the question that all out in news land are going hate/love for the next few weeks :-) I have recently purchased Microport System V/AT Unix(tm) And I have a lot of questions. 1) I had a h#ll of a time getting the darn thing installed. Mainly because of the requirement for me to keep a MS-Dos partition going. And I want to know before I get to far into the system what amount of disk space should I have to run news? I have smail 2.5 installed with my smart host being bikini.cis.ufl.edu I have a 60 Meg Priam hard disk with (now) 30 Megs for UNIX and 30 for Dos. I am willing to lose some more of the Dos side but not much more. 2) I also have the plan of becoming (as far as I know) the first UNIX bbs here in florida. My question here is what is the best BBS program to use I have installed SBBS but Its interface is not up to the Dos Hackers around here And the modifcation that I would need to make the mail and the news simple would possiable be like re-inventing the wheel (that is if the wheel is already out there) 3) Common Question how much memory..... speed now is slow .... I have a 1 Meg .... how much of a diff will it make if I have 2 Megs ... 3 Megs 4) I plan to have One 2400 baud line open for the BBS will this be ok ? and another line so that I can dial out. but I have a mouse for my Dos that will only work in COM1 or COM2 ... see my problem .. (I want my mouse) 5) Do other BBS runners use microport ? If so is there a SAFE way to give trusted users control of the the "real" machine. And do you charge? if so how much..... I feel that news and mail will be very atractive to the local Dos Freaks. Dont you :-) any help will be answered with at least a form letter.... e-mail or news will be good for replys -- ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() The Person : Brian J. Smith UUCP : !ihnp4!codas!uflorida!beach.cis.ufl.edu!bjs Internet : bjs@beach.cis.ufl.edu