Subj : Re: Versions
To   : Robbie Whiting
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Jan 06 2022 11:53:39

  Re: Re: Versions
  By: Robbie Whiting to Digital Man on Thu Jan 06 2022 03:21 pm

 >  > You can actually run *both*, like I do. So long as the Linux-sbbs
 >  > instance and the Windows-sbbs instances have access to the same sbbs
 >  > directory tree, they can live together harmoneously, serving a
 >  > different set of nodes each (that the purpose of the
 >  > FirstNode/LastNode values in your sbbs.ini file). I actually run 3
 >  > instances of sbbs: Win7-32 on bbs.synchronet, Win10-64 on
 >  > vert.synchro.net and Debian-Linux-64 on cvs.synchro.net.
 >
 > That's fascinating. When you say each instances have access, do you mean
 > like via SMB shared drive/folders?

Yes, or NFS or whatever suits you and supports file and byte-range locking.

 > Aside, I was musing the other day -- would it be possible to launch Linux
 > doors/xtrn programs from Win32 SBBS using WSL2 on the same machine? I'm
 > not sure how the output would be piped to the user, but since Win now has
 > the ability to directly launch a linux kernal... that would be pretty
 > slick. I'm sure this is a naive assumption, tho :)

Almost anything's possible with enough effort.
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