• BURMA CAVE BBS

    From Chris - Insight Media BBS@21:1/10 to alt.bbs.allsysop,alt.bbs.excalibur, on Wed Mar 7 17:18:00 2007
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.excalibur

    Quote "I've been running the BBS on XP Pro for several years now without a hitch. "

    Yep I ran it for about 5 months and got the odd file corruption, but when I added more files it went awol... with files in different conferences etc....
    I was adding quite a few files at the time...maybe about 4 GB or so....

    If your file base is settled or on CD maybe it works fine?

    But as far as I know at least 5 sysops have had the file problem, and since
    I set up an old NT4 server it's golden.
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    Chris - Insight Media Excalibur BBS
    www.imcon.co.uk
    @insightmedia.servebbs.com


    <excalbbs@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1173225242.422416.291080@c51g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
    On Feb 25, 5:04 pm, "JDS BBS SysOP" <s...@jds.com> wrote:
    On Feb 24, 8:58 pm, excalibur @ frankenserver.org wrote:

    The BURMA CAVE! BBS is down, possibly forever. XP seems to corrupt the
    datbase at random so it has again caused a meltdown of the BBS. I need
    to
    track down older memory for an older NT box on which to place the BBS.
    --
    Arizona's Oldest BBS
    BURMA CAVE! BBS 24/7
    Since 1983
    @burmacave.ath.cx

    Thats really sad news for the remaining Excalibur Sysop community.
    Maybe someone should implement a XP/Vista friendly Excalibur style
    board. I had almost implemented a web interface a decade ago.
    Basically, the whole thing was a server DLL running as a DDE client to
    Holy Grail. I believe I had named it JDS Web Front and had released t
  • From Michael J. Ryan (tracker1)@21:1/10 to alt.bbs.allsysop,alt.bbs.excalibur, on Thu Mar 15 18:11:00 2007
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.excalibur

    excalibur @ frankenserver.org wrote:
    We're using an old 98 box with an older version of the BC BBS. It's
    online but many games/options arw missing.

    Welcome back.. Fellow AZ boards welcome ;)

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    Michael J. Ryan - tracker1(at)theroughnecks(dot)net - www.theroughnecks.net icq: 4935386 - AIM/AOL: azTracker1 - Y!: azTracker1 - MSN/Win: (email)