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L: Possibility to skip file areas from checking and reindexing.
U: With adopt if a file exists there will be troubles.
mbmsg:
N: With the post command if a netmail area is used the netmail area
will cause trouble later, should be blocked to be used on netmail

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<BLOCKQUOTE>
<div align="right"><h5>Last update 03-Nov-2003</h5></div>
<div align="right"><h5>Last update 09-Nov-2003</h5></div>
<div align="center"><h1>MBSE BBS Basic Installation</h1></div>
<h3>Introduction.</h3>
<p>
Before you compile and install MBSE BBS you must first setup the basic
environment. If you don't do this, things will fail.
<p>
To compile and install MBSE BBS most distributions have installed all needed packages.
If important packages are missing then the configure script will tell you. There are also
less important packages which if missinng still let you compile MBSE BBS, but you will miss
some features. Here is a short list of these packages:
<ol>
<li><b>Zlib</b>. On some distributions you also need <b>zlib development</b>. When you have
zlib installed, then in <b>mbcico</b> extra code will be compiled in the Hydra protocol driver
that will allow the PLZ extension. When a connection is made with another system that also
supports this extension (currently MBSE BBS and Radius beta versions), the files will be sent
compressed even if they are already compressed. The increased throughput will be between 1
and 10 times, that's even better then modem compression can do. Later the zlib compression will
also be added to binkp.</li>
</ol>
<P>&nbsp;<p>
<h3>Step 1: planning the filesystems.</h3>
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default (english) directory you now have default menu datafiles and ansi
screens. These are copies of my test system so you have to edit them to
build your own bbs.<br>
Editing ansi screens can be done on a GNU/Linux system with
<strong>duhdraw</strong>,
this is available from 2:280/2802 as <strong>duhdraw.tgz</strong> (68 Kbytes).
The binaries are included in this archive, if you compile it yourself
it may give trouble so if the binaries work, use these.<br>
Another editor is available from
<A HREF="http://www.drastic.net/bmdraw/">http://www.drastic.net/bmdraw/</A>,
you can find the tar.gz file in <A
HREF="http://www.drastic.net/bmdraw/files/bmd022.tgz">
http://www.drastic.net/bmdraw/files/bmd022.tgz</A>, it's about 36 Kbytes.
This is also a thedraw clone for Linux. Note, at my system I needed to run it as
root.<br>
Editing ansi screens can be done on a GNU/Linux system with one of the
following packages:
<ol>
<li><strong>duhdraw</strong>, this is available from 2:280/2802 as
<strong>duhdraw.tgz</strong> (68 Kbytes).
The binaries are included in this archive, if you compile it yourself
it may give trouble so if the binaries work, use these.</li>
<li><strong>bmdraw</strong> This editor is available from
<A HREF="http://www.drastic.net/bmdraw/">http://www.drastic.net/bmdraw/</A>,
you can find the tar.gz file in
<A HREF="http://www.drastic.net/bmdraw/files/bmd022.tgz">http://www.drastic.net/bmdraw/files/bmd022.tgz</A>,
it's about 36 Kbytes. This is also a thedraw clone for Linux.
Note, at my system I needed to run it as root.</li>
<li><strong>TetraDraw</strong> This is a very nice Ansi editor, you can
get this file as TETR~VC#.TGZ from 2:280/2802. The file is 157 Kbytes.
</ol>
You may also want to edit ~/etc/header.txt and ~/etc/footer.txt, these
files are the top and bottom of the newfiles/allfiles listings.
<P>