Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!manes From: manes@dasys1.UUCP (Steve Manes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: XBBS Message-ID: <4727@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 31 May 88 07:33:06 GMT References: <208@turnkey.TCC.COM> <3880@uwspan.UUCP> Reply-To: manes@dasys1.UUCP (Steve Manes) Organization: Datamerica Systems, NYC Lines: 30 I won't post excerpts, just some comments. I'm also a BBS author (Magpie/DOS and Magpie/XENIX). And I've got Sandy's source for XBBS here. Okay, the code isn't suitable for framing but I've seen no large programs that were. However, I know Sandy's work from many programs he's written and been kind enough to release and use some of them regularly (like his 'CU', which I'm using now). I consider myself a good programmer but it was studying Sandy's code that helped ease me into the world of Unix programming from the ho-hum existence of DOS code jockeying. And I still find myself referring back to stuff he wrote because he's an excellent programmer who knows Unix-under-the-hood like only a few wizards do. I'd recommend to anyone to download his source for XBBS even if they have no intention of ever running a BBS. Your comments may all be quite valid from your point of view (you may be twice the pgmmer of either of us for all I know) but since none of the complaints seemed to be substantial, at least insofar as the operation of the program goes, I think the negative was overstated. More than any other PD/Shareware author on the Net, Sandy deserves my thanks. I would hate to see him get offended and stop posting his stuff. Of course, I think Magpie is the best BBS program ever written and that my source is gorgeous :^). (The latter you'll have to take my word for since I don't release source and criticisms like this don't encourage me to do so.) -- +----- + Steve Manes + decvax!philabs!cmcl2!hombre!magpie!manes Magpie BBS: 212-420-0527 + SmartMail: manes@magpie.MASA.COM