WD-BBS Fork Version (0.002-pre)

Updates from fork v0.001

• sort out the common library and several prototypes.
• let some functions those are DSOs (e.g. Chatroom Client) can be runned in Cygwin Windows.
• add several useful utilities prepared for cron jobs, data fixing and statistics.

Something difference from master branch

• remove game entry menu and status

Bugs and Issue

• In this version, if you create the "gopher link" accidentally, you may encounter that you can NOT delete it, and even abort from BBS.

WD-BBS Fork Version (0.001-stable2)

Bug fixes from 0.001-stable1

• add important installation tip.
• correct wrong installation path
• fix wrong print out text layouts
• fix return value problem for mbbsd that cause read permission problem or SIGSEGV
• fix aborting when keying ESC-n in login screen

Release Note

Other features in this 0.001 version, please view here for more information.

Supported Platforms

FreeBSD, GNU/Linux , Microsoft Windows 7/8/8.1/10

WD-BBS Fork Version (0.001-stable1)

Updates from pre-release(0.0001)

• let it compatible in FreeBSD-amd64, GNU/Linux, Cygwin in Microsoft Windows 7/8/8.1/10
• Makefile rules changed to Use NetBSD make (bmake) for easier too check the configuration.
• split simple sample config file: wdbbs.conf
• unify the Escape character format into '\x1b'
• unify the definition prefix for different OS.

Something difference from master branch

• remove bbsrf and bbsrf2 import by OpenPtt
• remove entry to DSO module in Cygwin version
• remove alternative patch for that are still too complicated
• remove useless file (*.old, *.x)
• WD/Makefile: make sure buildtime for name of mbbsd can be as same as what symlinks refer to.

Note for Cygwin Version

• You still need to download latest version of Cygwin in here

• After downloaded zip file, please extract it under C:\cygwin\home

• open a Windows account named bbs with Administrator permission, and login it to open the Cygwin ( C:\cygwin\Cygwin.bat )

• reference unfer instruction to let Cygwin use share-memory to let BBS work on it:
  http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-shared-memory.html
  https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygserver.html#start-cygserver

• and type ~/bin/mbbsd 3456 in Cygwin command window,

• Enable your Telnet client in Windows or download PCMan to connect localhost:3456

WD-BBS Fork Version (testing)

• fix varargs.h to stdarg.h problem
• let the code can be compiled by newer version compiler