• How To Install BinkD on to Windows 7?

    From Dave Labbey@1:2320/100 to All on Mon Apr 11 15:49:02 2016
    Was wondering how can I install BinkD on windows 7??
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  • From Mark Lewis@1:2320/100 to Dave Labbey on Mon Apr 11 20:56:02 2016

    11 Apr 16 15:49, you wrote to All:

    Was wondering how can I install BinkD on windows 7??

    this is better off in the fidonet BINKD echo ;)

    however, generally speaking, you get the archive, unzip it into a directory, set up your config and then run the program pointing it to your config file... on winwhatever, i would place it in one of your user directories so you don't have to worry about file permissions and such...

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  • From Dave Labbey@1:2320/100 to Mark Lewis on Tue Apr 12 16:21:04 2016
    Re: How To Install BinkD on to Windows 7?
    By: mark lewis to Dave Labbey on Mon Apr 11 2016 08:56 pm

    however, generally speaking, you get the archive, unzip it into a
    directory, set up your config and then run the program pointing it to your config file... on winwhatever, i would place it in one of your user directories so you don't have to worry about file permissions and such... )\/(ark
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  • From Dave Labbey@1:2320/100 to Mark Lewis on Tue Apr 12 16:22:32 2016
    Re: How To Install BinkD on to Windows 7?
    By: mark lewis to Dave Labbey on Mon Apr 11 2016 08:56 pm

    however, generally speaking, you get the archive, unzip it into a
    directory, set up your config and then run the program pointing it to your config file... on winwhatever, i would place it in one of your user directories so you don't have to worry about file permissions and such...

    )\/(ark

    Thanks Mark I did download binkd11a94-mingw32-ipv6-perldl-zlib for windows but did not come with a config file
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  • From Dallas Hinton@1:2320/100 to Dave Labbey on Thu Apr 14 05:16:02 2016
    Hi Dave -- on Apr 11 2016 at 15:49, you wrote:

    Was wondering how can I install BinkD on windows 7??

    On 64bit, you'll have to run a virtual (32bit) machine of some flavour. On 32bit, it will run quite happily.


    Cheers... Dallas

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  • From Mark Lewis@1:2320/100 to Dallas Hinton on Thu Apr 14 09:38:08 2016

    14 Apr 16 05:16, you wrote to Dave Labbey:

    Was wondering how can I install BinkD on windows 7??

    On 64bit, you'll have to run a virtual (32bit) machine of some
    flavour. On 32bit, it will run quite happily.

    there are or should already be available 64bit flavor binaries of binkd for all

    supported OSes... i compile my own over here and it is definitely 64bit...


    binkd-1.1a-92: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.24, BuildID[sha1]=4667403c60c74c1e66b60e033f25a35468cd26fd, stripped


    but still, the 32bit flavor of binkd for winwhatever should run just fine on a 64bit flavor of win7... have i missed something? has m$ really turned the screws around on this one?

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  • From Jeff Smith@1:2320/100 to Dallas Hinton on Thu Apr 14 09:46:38 2016
    Hello Dallas.

    14 Apr 16 05:16, you wrote to Dave Labbey:

    Hi Dave -- on Apr 11 2016 at 15:49, you wrote:

    Was wondering how can I install BinkD on windows 7??

    On 64bit, you'll have to run a virtual (32bit) machine of some
    flavour. On 32bit, it will run quite happily.

    Don't know about Binkley. But I run BinkD just fine on both 32 bit
    and 64 bit Windows.

    Cheers... Dallas

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  • From Wilfred Van Velzen@1:2320/100 to Dallas Hinton on Thu Apr 14 15:05:02 2016
    Hi Dallas,

    On 2016-04-14 05:16:51, you wrote to Dave Labbey:

    Was wondering how can I install BinkD on windows 7??

    On 64bit, you'll have to run a virtual (32bit) machine of some flavour.
    On
    32bit, it will run quite happily.

    Not true!

    Any of the windows binkd versions will run on 64bit windows. There is even a 64bit version of binkd:

    binkd11a94-mingw32-ipv6-perldl-zlib.zip binkd11a94-msvc-4gb-ipv6-static-perl-zlib-bzlib2.zip binkd11a94-msvc-binkd9x-static.zip binkd11a94-msvc10-4gb-ipv6-static-perl-zlib-bzlib2.zip binkd11a94-msvc10x64-4gb-ipv6-static-perl-zlib-bzlib2.zip


    Bye, Wilfred.

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  • From Nicholas Boel@1:2320/100 to Mark Lewis on Thu Apr 14 16:17:40 2016
    Hello mark,

    On 14 Apr 16 09:38, mark lewis wrote to Dallas Hinton:

    binkd-1.1a-92: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.24, BuildID[sha1]=4667403c60c74c1e66b60e033f25a35468cd26fd, stripped

    Nicely done, my good man! But for such a security buff as you are, your kernel version is just a tad out of date. :)

    but still, the 32bit flavor of binkd for winwhatever should run just
    fine on a 64bit flavor of win7... have i missed something? has m$
    really turned the screws around on this one?

    No. 64-bit Windows will most definitely support 32-bit programs. It has only ditched 16-bit support in the 64-bit versions.

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Mark Lewis@1:2320/100 to Nicholas Boel on Thu Apr 14 19:38:02 2016

    14 Apr 16 16:17, you wrote to me:

    binkd-1.1a-92: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
    dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.24,
    BuildID[sha1]=4667403c60c74c1e66b60e033f25a35468cd26fd, stripped

    Nicely done, my good man! But for such a security buff as you are,
    your kernel version is just a tad out of date. :)

    maybe but i have long term support and i apply updates and fixes almost every day when they appear in my updates notifier :)

    but still, the 32bit flavor of binkd for winwhatever should run just
    fine on a 64bit flavor of win7... have i missed something? has m$
    really turned the screws around on this one?

    No. 64-bit Windows will most definitely support 32-bit programs. It
    has only ditched 16-bit support in the 64-bit versions.

    that's what i thought... thanks! :)

    )\/(ark

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  • From Nicholas Boel@1:2320/100 to Mark Lewis on Thu Apr 14 19:51:46 2016
    Hello mark,

    On 14 Apr 16 19:38, mark lewis wrote to Nicholas Boel:

    binkd-1.1a-92: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1
    (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux
    2.6.24, BuildID[sha1]=4667403c60c74c1e66b60e033f25a35468cd26fd,
    stripped

    Nicely done, my good man! But for such a security buff as you
    are, your kernel version is just a tad out of date. :)

    maybe but i have long term support and i apply updates and fixes
    almost every day when they appear in my updates notifier :)

    Long term support? Holy crap, how long is your LTS? 2.6x kernels were at *least* 2 years ago or more!

    but still, the 32bit flavor of binkd for winwhatever should run
    just fine on a 64bit flavor of win7... have i missed something?
    has m$ really turned the screws around on this one?

    No. 64-bit Windows will most definitely support 32-bit programs.
    It has only ditched 16-bit support in the 64-bit versions.

    that's what i thought... thanks! :)

    But of course. Obviously my OS of choice is Linux for anything server-wise. But

    I still keep up with Windows due to a bad COD addiction. :) And for the records, Win10 is awesome compared to Win8. So you're safe to upgrade as long as you have the hardware to support (which I know you do on at least one machine I heard about.. lol)

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Mark Lewis@1:2320/100 to Nicholas Boel on Thu Apr 14 22:08:48 2016

    14 Apr 16 19:51, you wrote to me:

    Nicely done, my good man! But for such a security buff as you are,
    your kernel version is just a tad out of date. :)

    maybe but i have long term support and i apply updates and fixes
    almost every day when they appear in my updates notifier :)

    Long term support? Holy crap, how long is your LTS? 2.6x kernels were
    at *least* 2 years ago or more!

    ubuntu 14.04 LTS is five years... that should be out to about 2018 Apr with critical fixes being available for another two years and some months...

    but still, the 32bit flavor of binkd for winwhatever should run
    just fine on a 64bit flavor of win7... have i missed something? has
    m$ really turned the screws around on this one?

    No. 64-bit Windows will most definitely support 32-bit programs. It
    has only ditched 16-bit support in the 64-bit versions.

    that's what i thought... thanks! :)

    But of course. Obviously my OS of choice is Linux for anything server-wise. But I still keep up with Windows due to a bad COD
    addiction. :) And for the records, Win10 is awesome compared to Win8.
    So you're safe to upgrade as long as you have the hardware to support (which I know you do on at least one machine I heard about.. lol)

    this is true but we've cut winwhatever loose and won't be putting any $$$ in those coffers any more... when the last vista falls over it will join the rest of the herd running ubuntu ;)

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  • From Dave Labbey@1:2320/100 to Jeff Smith on Fri Apr 15 09:29:02 2016
    Re: How To Install BinkD on to Windows 7?
    By: Jeff Smith to Dallas Hinton on Thu Apr 14 2016 09:46 am

    Don't know about Binkley. But I run BinkD just fine on both 32 bit
    and 64 bit Windows.
    Jeff

    I'm running 32 bit and I can not find BinkD with a config file.

    Dave
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  • From Mark Lewis@1:2320/100 to Dallas Hinton on Fri Apr 15 11:36:02 2016
    14 Apr 16 05:16, you wrote to Dave Labbey:

    Was wondering how can I install BinkD on windows 7??

    On 64bit, you'll have to run a virtual (32bit) machine of some
    flavour. On 32bit, it will run quite happily.

    i'm coming back to this because i've been thinking about your response and the echo it is in... i suspect you were responding to running binkleyterm on win7 instead of binkd which the OP asked about... you are probably right, too... unless someone has the sources for binkleyterm and they have done whatever needed to be done to compile it 32bit or 64bit, then yes, the old 16bit stuff will have problems on a 64bit winwhatever system that doesn't have 16bit capabilities any more...

    )\/(ark

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:2320/100 to Dave Labbey on Fri Apr 15 13:19:02 2016
    On 04/15/16, Dave Labbey said the following...

    I'm running 32 bit and I can not find BinkD with a config file.

    There are quite often new binkd executibles available for download.

    I don't think the config file has changed much in about a decade so that is
    why there is no binkd.cfg with them. Not exactly true, the newest 1.1
    releases do have a couple new config options explained in the readme or somewhere near the release file!

    ftp://cvs.happy.kiev.ua/pub/fidosoft/mailer/binkd/binkd104.zip contains a sample cfg file along with the source for v1.04 that was released a couple years ago.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Dallas Hinton@1:2320/100 to Wilfred Van Velzen on Sun Apr 17 21:01:02 2016
    Hi Wilfred -- on Apr 14 2016 at 15:07, you wrote:

    Any of the windows binkd versions will run on 64bit windows. There
    is even a 64bit version of binkd:

    Oh, I misread that as Binkley, rather than BinkD -- thanks for putting me straight!


    Cheers... Dallas

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  • From Dallas Hinton@1:2320/100 to Mark Lewis on Sun Apr 17 21:03:02 2016
    Hi mark -- on Apr 15 2016 at 11:32, you wrote:

    i'm coming back to this because i've been thinking about your
    response and the echo it is in... i suspect you were responding to
    running binkleyterm on win7 instead of binkd which the OP asked

    That's exactly what I did -- didn't read carefully enough!!



    Cheers... Dallas

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