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From: pozar@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Pozar)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BBS Software
Message-ID: <5810@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 1 Nov 88 22:49:14 GMT
References: <956@galaxy> <5802@hoptoad.uucp> <6569@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: pozar@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Pozar)
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In article <6569@spool.cs.wisc.edu> thaler@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler) writes:
>Fido has a MUCH more difficult user interface from PC-Board. SYSOP
>utilities are not as nice, file storage (1 FILE PER MESSAGE!) is 
>awful.
   I'm not sure what PC-Board's interface is like since I have
never logged on to one.  Fido's interface can be modified
greatly.  I would not base my jugdement on Fido's interface on
what you have seen out there with older (ver 11) Fido's.  I
would be interested in how you can improve on SYSOP (ver 12).  I
agree that one message/file is a bit wasteful on disk space.
But is also much more flexable and it is faster in processing.

>I don't love PC_Board, but fido is not a great alternative. 
>The one thing you can say about Fido is that it was the first to have
>FIDO-NET mail network and the first to support batch files. 
>PC-Board does some pretty brain-damaged things too, but you can
>move around quickly in it, and it is extremely easy to set up becasue
>of the  large collection of utilities written to run with it. The best
>example of this is PRO-DOOR. It lets you do FULL SCREEN editing,
>batch download/upload with a multitude of protocols, and is reasonable
>easy to use with multiple command parsing( for example, you can
>download a batch of files and logoff in one command, which still
>exits with a routine that gives you 10 seconds to change your mind
>after the download.  

   No difference here either.  You have had the ability to run
"outside" programmes since ver 11.  And fido has supported one
line chained commands since ver 11 too.  I admit there can be
improvments to Fido in its interface.  I am trying to say, don't
discount Fido until you look at the ver12 manual or talk to some
one that is running one.  It may have everything that you
need...

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