Jose,
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Jose Angel Amador Fundora wrote:
>
> Well, I am getting FBB to run quite OK, but I have one problem. If I
> use the xfbbC 7.00g21 client at CO2JA (Slackware 3.3, kernel 2.0.36),
> on a DX2 @66 with a Cirrus 5428 VGA video board I can either have a
> paging of four lines or no paging at all. Telnet works OK and obeys
> to any paging setting I like to set. Has this happened to anyone else
> and has been able to solve it ?
>
Your first decision is whether you want to run FBB in a X window
desk or as a demon that you use through telnet or other manner. I suggest
you try it in X windows.
To do this you need to get Xfbb from ftp.f6cnb.org and you can
just copy the files from this versions /bin/ to your current one. To start
this version you need to open a xterm window on the desk that FBB will
use. At the prompt you run the bash file called:
/usr/local/fbb/xfbb.sh -g 400x400+150+100
I have it in a bash file that is named startfbb.
When FBB is up you click on the read symbol and you can read any
message or use the theme system. If you want to write a message you s
xe3ooo <enter>
and it will ask for a subject: Write that and then <enter>. Now wait about
30 seconds on your 486 and a nice editor screen will appear. Use that to
write your messages.
When you get tired of that you can go back to writing in joe and
just telnet to fbb. That is a lot simpler and what I do...:-)
> Second. I come from DOS FBB 5.15c under Desqview with a nice editor
> window allowing fancy signatures and editing at leisure. I am missing
> all that stuff and I wonder if I can recover it somehow, either with
> commands I have not tried with the supplied clients, or using some
> Linux editor and some trickery. I have though of using pico or joe,
> and sometimes I do use joe and feed FBB's mail.in, but I believe I
> should not have to reinvent the wheel.
>
> Can someone supply some ideas ? I am really missing the FBB 5.15c
> environment, even when I believe that FBB 7.00g is a better thing.
> And being greedy, I would like to have both, the old familiar
> editing environment (or better) and the improved features...8- )
>
> No argument about Linux being able to overcome a LOT of MSDOS
> limitations, so I won't go back to 5.15c, even when I miss it.
>
>
> 73 de Jose, CO2JA.
>
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