Hello all,
how does one enable the ;EDIT command in the menu?
how does one enable the ;EDIT command in the menu?
how does one enable the ;EDIT command in the menu?
You can edit exec/str_cmds.js. But why? It's only available to sysops.
Re: How to enable ;EDIT?
By: Digital Man to Jollis on Sun Apr 03 2016 11:39 pm
how does one enable the ;EDIT command in the menu?
You can edit exec/str_cmds.js. But why? It's only available to sysops.
Hmm, perhaps I have something misconfigured. I am the sysop, and it doesn't seem to be available.
how does one enable the ;EDIT command in the menu?
You can edit exec/str_cmds.js. But why? It's only available to sysops.
digital man
Re: How to enable ;EDIT?
By: Digital Man to Jollis on Sun Apr 03 2016 11:39 pm
how does one enable the ;EDIT command in the menu?
You can edit exec/str_cmds.js. But why? It's only available to sysops.
digital man
Mr. Digital Man...I know this is off topic but I am very curious. What BBS software did you "RUN" before you wrote Synchronet??
Which ones did you take
from or leave to come up with Synchronet BBS?
It's obvious a lot of thought
when into Synchronet BBS but is there any BBS software that inspired you to write Synchronet? Which ones?
The initial inspiration was WWIV, but I had used a lot of other BBSes from the user's perspective and certainly was inspired for certain features or feels by them too. That continues to this day. :-)
Mr. Digital Man...I know this is off topic but I am very curious. What BBS
The initial inspiration was WWIV, but I had used a lot of other BBSes
from the user's perspective and certainly was inspired for certain
features or feels by them too. That continues to this day. :-)
Don't you mean this is the inspiration:
* SYNCHRONET PRICING
-------------------
2 node licence..............$ 99.00
4 node licence..............$199.00
8 node licence..............$299.00
16 node licence.............$399.00
250 node licence............$499.00
Professional Packages:
4 node package..............$499.00
8 node package..............$699.00
500 bucks for 4 nodes. That's outrageous.
Re: How to enable ;EDIT?
By: Digital Man to Hustler on Sun Apr 10 2016 06:13 pm
The initial inspiration was WWIV, but I had used a lot of other BBSes
from the user's perspective and certainly was inspired for certain
features or feels by them too. That continues to this day. :-)
Don't you mean this is the inspiration:
* SYNCHRONET PRICING
-------------------
2 node licence..............$ 99.00
4 node licence..............$199.00
8 node licence..............$299.00
16 node licence.............$399.00
250 node licence............$499.00
Professional Packages:
4 node package..............$499.00
8 node package..............$699.00
500 bucks for 4 nodes. That's outrageous.
14 Apr 16 04:40, you wrote to Digital Man:
Re: How to enable ;EDIT?
By: Digital Man to Hustler on Sun Apr 10 2016 06:13 pm
The initial inspiration was WWIV, but I had used a lot of other BBSes
from the user's perspective and certainly was inspired for certain
features or feels by them too. That continues to this day. :-)
Don't you mean this is the inspiration:
* SYNCHRONET PRICING
-------------------
2 node licence..............$ 99.00
4 node licence..............$199.00
8 node licence..............$299.00
16 node licence.............$399.00
250 node licence............$499.00
Professional Packages:
4 node package..............$499.00
8 node package..............$699.00
500 bucks for 4 nodes. That's outrageous.
not for a commercial entity... apparently you don't know or understand the difference between the normal and the professional packages... you also are apparently unaware of the how software was priced back in the day... IIRC, remoteaccess was one of the first, if not the first, to offer 255 nodes for its
miniscule $50US price tag... other BBS packages followed suit soon after... then over time RA and others developed their professional packages which had a few more features and capabilities... they had to reduce some of those in the free/shareware releases...
* SYNCHRONET PRICING
-------------------
2 node licence..............$ 99.00
4 node licence..............$199.00
8 node licence..............$299.00
16 node licence.............$399.00
250 node licence............$499.00
Professional Packages:
4 node package..............$499.00
8 node package..............$699.00
500 bucks for 4 nodes. That's outrageous.
not for a commercial entity... apparently you don't know or understand
the difference between the normal and the professional packages... you
also are apparently unaware of the how software was priced back in the
day... IIRC, remoteaccess was one of the first, if not the first, to
offer 255 nodes for its miniscule $50US price tag... other BBS packages
followed suit soon after... then over time RA and others developed their
professional packages which had a few more features and capabilities...
they had to reduce some of those in the free/shareware releases...
I don't recall Synchronet ever having a "Professional Package". <shrug>
14 Apr 16 12:26, you wrote to me:
* SYNCHRONET PRICING
-------------------
2 node licence..............$ 99.00
4 node licence..............$199.00
8 node licence..............$299.00
16 node licence.............$399.00
250 node licence............$499.00
Professional Packages:
4 node package..............$499.00
8 node package..............$699.00
500 bucks for 4 nodes. That's outrageous.
not for a commercial entity... apparently you don't know or understand
the difference between the normal and the professional packages... you
also are apparently unaware of the how software was priced back in the
day... IIRC, remoteaccess was one of the first, if not the first, to
offer 255 nodes for its miniscule $50US price tag... other BBS packages
followed suit soon after... then over time RA and others developed their
professional packages which had a few more features and capabilities...
they had to reduce some of those in the free/shareware releases...
I don't recall Synchronet ever having a "Professional Package". <shrug>
i didn't write it but there's sure an entry up there for such...
i didn't write it but there's sure an entry up there for such... RA
added a few additional binaries, mainly... things that you had to hunt down a 3rd party tool for and might have to pay $$$ for... if it was included in RA, you didn't pay anything for it other than the RA reg stuffs... RAEdit was one such... it was a special compiled version of GEdit... there were other things available, too... but not all BBSes
did this for their professional or commercial "packages"...
i didn't write it but there's sure an entry up there for such... RA
added a few additional binaries, mainly... things that you had to
hunt down a 3rd party tool for and might have to pay $$$ for... if it
was included in RA, you didn't pay anything for it other than the RA
reg stuffs... RAEdit was one such... it was a special compiled
version of GEdit... there were other things available, too... but not
all BBSes did this for their professional or commercial "packages"...
But... Has RA ever went "freeware?"
I see why you stick with your paid version, but tinker with many
others. :)
I don't recall Synchronet ever having a "Professional Package".
<shrug>
i didn't write it but there's sure an entry up there for such...
Some posted it, sure. Doesn't mean it's true.
14 Apr 16 18:12, you wrote to me:
I don't recall Synchronet ever having a "Professional Package".
<shrug>
i didn't write it but there's sure an entry up there for such...
Some posted it, sure. Doesn't mean it's true.
i would have thought you'd have shot the original post down if it were not valid... no biggie ;)
Some posted it, sure. Doesn't mean it's true.
i would have thought you'd have shot the original post down if it were not valid... no biggie ;)
I dismissed it as a trolling attempt and decided not to bite. :-)
500 bucks for 4 nodes. That's outrageous.
You forgot to mention that was for the Professional Package. For you, that price gave you 250 Nodes
I see why you stick with your paid version, but tinker with many others. :)
it was $50US well spent ;)
i didn't write it but there's sure an entry up there for such...
Some posted it, sure. Doesn't mean it's true.
i would have thought you'd have shot the original post down if it were not valid... no biggie ;)
I dismissed it as a trolling attempt and decided not to bite. :-)
Some posted it, sure. Doesn't mean it's true.
i would have thought you'd have shot the original post down if it
were not valid... no biggie ;)
I dismissed it as a trolling attempt and decided not to bite. :-)
?500 bucks for 4 nodes. That's outrageous.
You forgot to mention that was for the Professional Package. For
you, that price gave you 250 Nodes
Were there any actual 250-node BBS's ? if so, weren't they all using TBBS
I see why you stick with your paid version, but tinker with many
others. :)
it was $50US well spent ;)
Yeah but then you would've had to spend money on all the other RA stuff.
It seems like almost every RA addon cost money. FrontDoor, FastEcho,
lightbars etc. It's like a bad infomercial; but wait, there's more !
i didn't write it but there's sure an entry up there for such...
Some posted it, sure. Doesn't mean it's true.
It's on the official BBS FAQ, 10th Edition, January 2005.
mark lewis wrote to Dran Draggore <=-
It seems like almost every RA addon cost money. FrontDoor, FastEcho,
frontdoor and fastecho are not addons... they are separate programs in their own right and used for other purposes...
lightbars etc. It's like a bad infomercial; but wait, there's more !
lightbars? i never saw any need for them so i didn't fall for that
mess... everything else i use(d) i either wrote or i paid for if it was really good...
500 bucks. That's like $1000 in today's terms, that could have gone to feeding a Ugandan or North Korean family, but some SysOp had to spend it on your BBS.
hahaha... that's a valid option, too... i guess i'm more atuned to shooting down misinformation than letting it run free without a correction ;)
i didn't write it but there's sure an entry up there for such...
Some posted it, sure. Doesn't mean it's true.
It's on the official BBS FAQ, 10th Edition, January 2005.
1. what makes that FAQ official?
Re: How to enable ;EDIT?
By: Digital Man to mark lewis on Thu Apr 14 2016 06:12 pm
i didn't write it but there's sure an entry up there for such...
Some posted it, sure. Doesn't mean it's true.
It's on the official BBS FAQ, 10th Edition, January 2005.
Re: How to enable ;EDIT?
By: Digital Man to mark lewis on Thu Apr 14 2016 10:10 pm
i would have thought you'd have shot the original post down if it were not valid... no biggie ;)
I dismissed it as a trolling attempt and decided not to bite. :-)
Digital Man, it's ok to admit that you erred and changed your ways with recent versions of Synchronet being penance for past sins.
500 bucks. That's like $1000 in today's terms, that could have gone to feeding a Ugandan or North Korean family, but some SysOp had to spend it on your BBS.
You forgot to mention that was for the Professional Package. For you,
that price gave you 250 Nodes
Were there any actual 250-node BBS's ? if so, weren't they all using TBBS ?
It's on the official BBS FAQ, 10th Edition, January 2005.
1. what makes that FAQ official?
2. no link?
3. found it on the internet so it /must/ be true even if it isn't.
500 bucks. That's like $1000 in today's terms, that could have gone to feeding a Ugandan or North Korean family, but some SysOp had to spend it on your BBS.
they would have just spent it all on cigarrettes and candy anyways.
It's on the official BBS FAQ, 10th Edition, January 2005.
1. what makes that FAQ official?
2. no link?
3. found it on the internet so it /must/ be true even if it isn't.
You're clutching at straws.
It's the official BBS FAQ because it is the most supported and contributed-to BBS FAQ of the BBS era.
Dran Draggore wrote to mark lewis <=-
Re: How to enable ;EDIT?
By: mark lewis to Dran Draggore on Fri Apr 15 2016 12:06 pm
It's on the official BBS FAQ, 10th Edition, January 2005.
1. what makes that FAQ official?
2. no link?
3. found it on the internet so it /must/ be true even if it isn't.
You're clutching at straws.
It's the official BBS FAQ because it is the most supported and contributed-to BBS FAQ of the BBS era.
Quoting Deuce to Dran Draggore <=-
Still no link. Since you're too stupid to post one, here you go: http://thebbs.org/bbsfaq/ch03.3.5.htm#3.5.27
In Janurary of 2005, Synchronet v2 had been in the public domain for
eight years with free source code and binaries. v3 had been free for
five years... and released under the GPL for four of them. I had
already supported the FreeBSD port of GPL licensed Synchronet v3 for
four years.
Anyway, I dug up your FAQ... as it happens, the pro package apparently included "node license, shipping, QEMM Memory Manager, DESQview 386 Multitasker, & 4 port High Speed Seriel [sic] Cables"
I paid around $400 for DESQview/X back in the day.
Regardless, none of that matters. If you think that Digital Man was trying to get rich off of selling Synchronet you clearly don't have any grasp of BBS "companies" back in the day or any idea of how large their market was.
Quoting Digital Man to Dran Draggore <=-
500 bucks. That's like $1000 in today's terms, that could have gone to feeding a Ugandan or North Korean family, but some SysOp had to spend it on your BBS.
"Had to"? You have a distorted sense of reality. And not a friendly distortion either.
Quoting Bill Mcgarrity to Dran Draggore <=-
It's the official BBS FAQ because it is the most supported and contributed-to BBS FAQ of the BBS era.
From the date alone, support has been far and few. It's sorta like
saying the census of 1940 gives the actual number of people living in
the US in 2016.
It's on the official BBS FAQ, 10th Edition, January 2005.
1. what makes that FAQ official?
2. no link?
3. found it on the internet so it /must/ be true even if it isn't.
You're clutching at straws.
It's the official BBS FAQ because it is the most supported and contributed-to BBS FAQ of the BBS era.
It's on the official BBS FAQ, 10th Edition, January 2005.
1. what makes that FAQ official?
2. no link?
3. found it on the internet so it /must/ be true even if it isn't.
You're clutching at straws.
It's the official BBS FAQ because it is the most supported and
contributed-to BBS FAQ of the BBS era.
Still no link. Since you're too stupid to post one, here you go: http://thebbs.org/bbsfaq/ch03.3.5.htm#3.5.27
Here's an ad from 1995... http://wiki.synchro.net/_media/museum:ads:1995-08_accept_the_inevitable.png
No "pro" version.
In Janurary of 2005, Synchronet v2 had been in the public domain for eight years with free source code and binaries. v3 had been free for five years... and released under the GPL for four of them. I had already supported the FreeBSD port of GPL licensed Synchronet v3 for four years.
Anyway, I dug up your FAQ... as it happens, the pro package apparently included "node license, shipping, QEMM Memory Manager, DESQview 386 Multitasker, & 4 port High Speed Seriel [sic] Cables"
I paid around $400 for DESQview/X back in the day.
Regardless, none of that matters. If you think that Digital Man was trying to get rich off of selling Synchronet you clearly don't have
any grasp of BBS "companies" back in the day or any idea of how large their market was.
It's on the official BBS FAQ, 10th Edition, January 2005.
Never heard of it.
digital man
It's the official BBS FAQ because it is the most supported and contributed-to BBS FAQ of the BBS era.
500 bucks. That's like $1000 in today's terms, that could have gone
to feeding a Ugandan or North Korean family, but some SysOp had to spend it on your BBS.
they would have just spent it all on cigarrettes and candy anyways.
But it would have helped their economy. You must look at the big picture.
i've been a sysop since the early to mid 80s... i've been in fidonet almost as long... i've never heard of this FAQ... ever...
Dran Draggore wrote to BILL MCGARRITY <=-
Quoting Bill Mcgarrity to Dran Draggore <=-
It's the official BBS FAQ because it is the most supported and contributed-to BBS FAQ of the BBS era.
From the date alone, support has been far and few. It's sorta like
saying the census of 1940 gives the actual number of people living in
the US in 2016.
Information can be officially out of date.
It's still the official BBS FAQ for 2005.
Re: How to enable ;EDIT?
By: Digital Man to mark lewis on Thu Apr 14 2016 06:12 pm
i didn't write it but there's sure an entry up there for such...
Some posted it, sure. Doesn't mean it's true.
It's on the official BBS FAQ, 10th Edition, January 2005.
Information can drastically change in 11 years.... that's the point you
seem to be missing. I learn from the past but I certainly have no desire to live in it.
The guy's taking his company to BBS conventions, floating a blimp, restricting licensed nodes for hundreds of dollars, bundling in other commercial software, and you're telling me there's no business sense
or enterprise aspirations ?
i've been a sysop since the early to mid 80s... i've been in fidonet
almost as long... i've never heard of this FAQ... ever...
i'm sure you have.
Mro wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-
Re: Re: How to enable ;EDIT?
By: Bill McGarrity to Dran Draggore on Sat Apr 16 2016 06:49 pm
Information can drastically change in 11 years.... that's the point you
seem to be missing. I learn from the past but I certainly have no desire to live in it.
he was just saying how much synchronet cost back then and he referenced the bbs faq. i looked at it and it looks like it's a cut and paste
from synchronet docs.
Yeah, I never went for lightbars either.
actually, i have not... really... this is the first time that i've heard of it... rather surprising to find that pcmike was involved, too...
he was just saying how much synchronet cost back then and he
referenced the bbs faq. i looked at it and it looks like it's a cut and paste from synchronet docs.
Who really cares what the price was back then... it's 2016 and the software Rob is distributing has nothing to do with the software then other than a name. People have to stop living in the past...
Poindexter Fortran wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
The only time I liked them was on an old SLBBS install that I
co-sysoped. I've tried duplicating that, might have been a third-party menu. This was back in 1989 or so...
Mro wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-
Re: Re: How to enable ;EDIT?
By: Bill McGarrity to Mro on Sun Apr 17 2016 11:09 am
he was just saying how much synchronet cost back then and he
referenced the bbs faq. i looked at it and it looks like it's a cut and paste from synchronet docs.
Who really cares what the price was back then... it's 2016 and the software Rob is distributing has nothing to do with the software then other than a name. People have to stop living in the past...
i'm just saying what he was saying. i think a lot of people are jumping
in and dont even know wtf the thread is even about. hell, the subject
is still "re:how to enable;edit?"
I know exactly what he was trying to do. He was the one who took this thread off topic with his weak excuse of trying to get a rise out of DM.
thread off topic with his weak excuse of trying to get a rise out of DM.
Why bring shit up from 11 years ago if it's not to illiciet some sort of negative response.
It's over... you can continue discussing this feeble attempt at character assassination but I draw the line here....
Still no link. Since you're too stupid to post one, here you go: http://thebbs.org/bbsfaq/ch03.3.5.htm#3.5.27
The BBS FAQ is not that hard to find.
This only shows that the FAQ is out of date, as is with a lot of things related to BBS's.
The pro package could have appeared in an earlier version of the BBS FAQ.
The guy's taking his company to BBS conventions, floating a blimp, restricting licensed nodes for hundreds of dollars, bundling in other commercial software, and you're telling me there's no business sense or enterprise aspirations ?
Information can be officially out of date.
By: Hustler to Digital Man on Thu Apr 07 2016 11:47 am
Mr. Digital Man...I know this is off topic but I am very curious. What
BBS
"Mr" Digital Man ? -- by the sounds of it, don't you mean "Your Royal Highness, King of Kings, holy defender of the faith - saviour from heaven"
Tony Langdon wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-
SL as in Searchlight? One system I could never warm to. One of the boards I occasionally called ran Searchlight, and I think I encountered another over the years too.
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