Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!coherent!uunet!peregrine!ccicpg!turnkey!stanton!donegan From: donegan@stanton.TCC.COM (Steven P. Donegan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: WRONG! Summary: downside obvious? XBBS discussion Keywords: xbbs reply Message-ID: <51@stanton.TCC.COM> Date: 4 Jun 88 13:33:45 GMT References: <208@turnkey.TCC.COM> <837@.UUCP> Organization: Stanton Public Domain Systems, Stanton, Ca. Lines: 43 In article <837@.UUCP>, peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > > > > 3) The message base, file handling, and bulletins (motd and others) > > > use non-standard layouts and fixed length record formats. > > > They are MY format; therefore they are standard for xbbs! > > Fixed length record files are very rarely appropriate for a UNIX system. > Certainly a low-performance application like a BBS doesn't need them. > The downside obvious: you can't use an editor on them... > -- > -- Peter da Silva, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. > -- Phone: 713-274-5180. Remote UUCP: uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter. Gosh Peter (FLAMES ON), I have been using vi on my XBBS bulletins, control files and motd's for ages. You tell me that it's obvious that I can't do what I've been doing for about 2 years? I am getting rather sick of the totally unfounded and obviously uninformed comments of quite a few different individuals on Sandy's XBBS system. Most downside comments I've seen here so far prove that the individuals making the comments have never actually installed/operated/managed an XBBS system. I also take exception to the 'low-performance application' comment. XBBS is a very efficient, fast, responsive system that hides system load well. Users of the XBBS system note very little response degradation on a heavily loaded system, much less than a shell user on the same system. Come on folks, before flaming someones efforts to provide FREE software of any variety at least: Try it before bitching. Bitch constructively. Make sure of your FACTS. -- Steven P. Donegan Sr. Telecommunications Analyst Western Digital Corp. donegan@stanton.TCC.COM