From: bykrz@mail.dy.fi
Date: Thu Jan 09 2003 - 06:08:13 EET
Hello all,
Well, a week further and some progress on fbb... but it is rather hard
going - for someone used to the Internet and smtp etc, this is all a tad
counterintuitive, and the documentation is rather obtuse, so bear with
me... I have so many questions I don't know where to start... I will not
bore you but just to give you a flavour of BASIC stuff I just cannot find
documented, and yes, before you ask, I have read the docs (or tried to) on
the f6fbb.org site..:
- How does this "forwarding" work??
- What are messages vs bulletins vs private messages etc?
- when a message is "on hold", how do I get it "off hold"?
- Why does killing a message not remove it? How DO I remove it?
- How does a node I forward to, allow/know/handle this?
- Why do I have one password set with "EU" command and one in passwd.sys,
and never the twain shall meet?
- ehy can I not use the "EU" command when telnetted in, but I can use it
when using the xfbbC app?
- the forward file apprently needs a degree of knowledge that is beyond
me: so, any examples?
- What are white pages (the docs just say this is an interesting
implementation of white pages)?
- How do I get bulletins in? And out?
- Using EU, can I not change someone's home bbs?
- Is there a 'phone book', so I do not have to type SP <call> @
ve3mch.#scon.on.can.noam or some such string each time?
- Many programming techniques that are used in fbb are extremely poor
(sorry! do not mean to be rude, but just wondering WHY). Like using
binary configuration settings (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc); or using setup files
that depend on exact numbers of lines, etc. Is this historical accident?
- I guess fbb does its own ax25 thing - why not just use kernel ax25?
As you see, my lack of understanding is so great that I wonder if I will
ever usefully use this. So rather than bore you with too many questions
about the detail, a few meta questions, namely: is this all part of the
normal learning process, or am I overlooking some good basic docs
somewhere? (Or am I too dumb)? Should I bother? And, if yes, what is the
best way to find info (not the docs, apparently).
Many thanks for your advice, all.
73
Michael
VA3MVW
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