[nos-bbs] Questions related to JNOS 1.11f

[Miroslav Skoric (YT7MPB)]

(Skip) K8RRA wrote:

> Good evening Misko, It seems that your mail issues have not "gone away"?

Well, it is a matter of steep learning curve and I seem to getting old :-)

The next trouble is my intention to use the ancient equipment (80286) in 
a situation where the most of hams suggest: throw it away and get some 
new hardware :-)

> I am preparing to live aboard a boat for 3 to 5 years, this feature is a
> wonderful tool.
> Allow me to suggest that mail greater than <size> should in fact be
> received but not forwarded.

You are right, but what to do in a case when a system 'freezes' due to a 
very large incoming mail. As I said, I use 80286 with only 1 MB RAM for 
JNOS and it looks like that whenever it receives something greater than 
say 10-12 kB it stops until timeout. The next fwd session - the same. 
The only thing I can do in such situation is to make a list of what is 
queued at FBB (command FL <jnos_callsign> ) and remove greater mails 
from the queue. The next session is then going ok.

> This permits small mail to be retrieved on board at HF speeds sooner,
> and large at VHF/UHF (Internet) speeds later.

Yes, and also FBB has a possibility to send personal mails *before* 
bulletins. That is fine too for your purpose.

> 
> Now for the documentation:
> I have interest in how you configure for the features you want, remember
> "show & tell" in early schools?
> To the purpose of passing on wisdom for jnos2, I created a wiki for our
> community / it does not compete with [nos-bbs] or any developer or any
> version of nos.
> 
Well whatever documentation you are going to make - that's fine for 
beginners. I appreciate that. I have also been doing something similar 
with FBB howto for Linux users (http://tldp.org/howto/FBB.html).

> As an experiment, I extracted your Feb 27 mail with attachment to place
> in the ConfigHFile page because it added to the knowledge of that file
> for your circumstances.  I did it without your permission thus I will
> immediately undo my experiment if you desire.  To me, your example
> seemed to fit...  You may inspect it any time to draw your conclusions.
> 
No problem, let me know the exact web address it is located so I could 
see how it looks like.

> To the point of this mail of yours, you may feel it needed to modify
> your work I have used after you complete your objectives.  At any time
> if you do, please feel free to edit it directly yourself (or send me
> update).  I welcome your future learning if you want to share it.
> 

Well I plan to add some JNOS experimentations' ideas to incorporate into 
the existing Linux FBB howto, but I wouldn't mind if you use it for Wiki 
or whatever - as long as you give me some credit (or a cold beer :-))

Regards,

Misko YT7MPB

PS: In fact, I want to explore JNOS capabilities in the local area 
network (home lan) before I try something on the air. The problem is 
that I have been using variants of FBB for a while and other mailbox 
designs and approaches seem difficult now.