http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/ Synchronet BBS discussion group Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:57:01 GMT Rob Starr http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1754 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1754 ... at http://eob-bbs.com/lord48/ ... Rob Starr Lord Time SysOp of Time Warp of the Future BBS Telnet://Time.Synchro.Net:24 ICQ # 11868133 or # 70398519 Yahoo Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:14:13 GMT Scott Holder http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1753 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1753 It's the 16 bit version, since I'd kind of wanted to leave the option for IGMs open. I'll give the 32 bit version a try and see if it makes a difference. Scott Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:27:51 GMT Rob Swindell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1752 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1752 I believe there is a 4.08 beta, but I'm not sure where you get it. Are you running the 16-bit version? The 32-bit version will definitely behave better, but I Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:40:29 GMT Scott Holder http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1751 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1751 I'm using the latest version 4.0.7 available from http:// lord.lordlegacy.com/downloads/index.php . Is there a newer/different version than that? I don't have Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:26:21 GMT Rob Swindell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1750 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1750 See the second question in the FAQ: http://synchro.net/docs/v3cfgfaq.txt -Rob ... From: wiizzeen To: synchronet@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 10, Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:24:01 GMT Rob Swindell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1749 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1749 Try upgrading to a newer version of LORD. Older versions of LORD were notoriously bad CPU time-slice hogs. -Rob ... From: scoth42 To: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:15:12 GMT Tony Langdon http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1748 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1748 ... One thing to keep in mind is that a 64 bit OS can't run 16 bit applications (including DOS apps), because of how the processor is used when running 64 bit Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:08:54 GMT Alex G. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1747 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1747 I had a few minor issues at the beginning, but I've been running on windows 2k8 without issue for some time now. Although I think I'm on the 32 bit edition. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:17:53 GMT scoth42 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1746 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1746 Got a BBS going on a nice vintage Pentium 233MMX running Win98. LORD was the first door I got running, and it ran terribly slowly. I figured it was the slow Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:17:46 GMT wiizzeen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1745 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1745 okay, I have used Synchronet in the past on my home computer. The problem was, of course, that I wanted to shut it down for playing games and maintenance and Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:45:49 GMT Wiffle_2000 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1744 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1744 Thanks. That looks to have worked. The door is setup through scfg. However, when I go to play the door through the BBS I get this message. "External DOS Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:31:30 GMT Rob Swindell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1743 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1743 You don't have to be, but you will require create and modify access to the source directory. You probably weren't in the src/sbbs3 directory when you ran Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:26:31 GMT Wiffle_2000 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1742 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1742 Thanks for the reply. One last quick question. Do I need to be logged in as root to do gmake clean? Because I get the following when running. "gmake: *** No Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:11:20 GMT Rob Swindell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1741 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1741 Rebuild it with USE_DOSEMU=1. For example: # gmake clean # gmake USE_DOSEMU=1 -Rob ... From: wiffle_2000 To: synchronet@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:50:47 GMT wiffle_2000 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1740 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/synchronet/message/1740 So, Sychronet was recently intsalled on a Linux server. I noticed reading through the docs that I should have used gmake USE_DOSEMU=1 when compiled. I did