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rocat-0.95 now available on sunsite.unc.edu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri May 19 22:15:30 1995
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 07:56:11 -0500
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@rose.uthscsa.edu>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
From: shaw@manwe.fmsoft.com (Greg Shaw)
Subject: rocat-0.95 now available on sunsite.unc.edu
Keywords: BBS,Linux,rocat,chat
Organization: The Roman Catacombs BBS (303) 429-8914
Summary: rocat BBS System for Linux version 0.95 now available
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.development.apps
The rocat BBS System for Linux version 0.95 has been uploaded to
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming. It should be moved to
/pub/Linux/system/BBS in the near future.
rocat is a fully featured BBS system for Linux. It includes the
following:
- uses the native Linux utilities when possible (news, mail, games, etc)
- Supports modems, telnet sessions, any sort of character based
interface.
- Full ANSI support.
- Full macro support within menus, making menu design much simpler.
- Full documentation that explains every step required to configure
a 'plain' Linux system to a fully working BBS system.
- Professionally written C++ code, fully commented.
- All of the code is covered by the GNU Public License (GPL) version 2
- All errors are logged.
- All communication uses Internet sockets.
- Multiple machine BBS systems are fully supported.
- The BBS is optimized to require very few system resources,
resulting in a faster BBS on a slow machine.
- Fully multi-user (locking used on all file accesses)
- Multiple language support.
New to 0.95 are the following features: (and more)
- A fully integrated chat system supporting the following room styles:
- Public chatting
- Private chatting
- Club oriented chatting (with access restrictions)
- Broadcasts from the SysOp or other users
- The ability to ignore chat messages from other users while in a
chat room via a kill file.
- The 'new' user no longer needs to run as root, closing a
potential security hole.
- The SysOp can now 'break' into chat with a user.
- All previous bugs (found) were fixed.
Requirements:
Linux, Development environment and TCP/IP installed, modem.
Note: For chatting, a 486 or better is recommended.
--
Gregory Shaw Programmer, SysAdmin
fmSoft, Inc. Network Planner
shaw@manwe.fmsoft.com And homebrewer...
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