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
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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.
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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