Text 5659, 73 rader
Skriven 2006-04-11 05:11:54 av Stephen Haffly (1:396/45.27)
   Kommentar till text 5651 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
Ärende: PPoint in Linux
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Hello Maurice,

On (10 Apr 06) Maurice Kinal wrote to Stephen Haffly...

 SH> With Multimail, it was done by QWK packets attached to e-mail.

 MK> Other then the QWK format, which really isn't a point setup (is it?),
 MK> this could easily be accomplished with a script in linux.  Sounds to
 MK> me that ppoint isn't really a standalone and the idea could easily be
 MK> 'ported' to linux given that it sounds unixie to begin with.

What it has is a database and an index for each area along with the
interface to tie it all together.  It also has the ability to do daily
maintenance by age (or to delete messages flagged for deletion) and to
print those messages selected for printing.

It has several drop-down menues.  On the HOST menu, it scans for new
messages, zips them into a packet, connects (transfers control to
whatever program is being used to connect to the boss node, in my case,
IREX) for mail transfer.

MAIL has the functions for read/write/export/delete/print/search
messages.

OPTIONS has a shell to dos for quick command line needs, and most
important, a function to back up and restore the message databases.
Here one can edit taglines, print the user manual, or start the manual
processing of packets if one downloaded them by other means than through
the HOST transfer.

SETUP has all of the functions for making it work such as configuring
for hardware/printer/directories as well as for area
addition/deletion/modification (such as number of days before old
messages are automatically deleted).  It has a basic manual nodelist so
a limited number of entries can be made.

The menu system can be navigated by the keyboard with no mouse needed
(although it can be used).  The editor is user selectable.

 MK> Right.  I doubt anyone would worry about QWK given it's abandonware
 MK> status.  Not to worry as it isn't a requirement for Fido ... thank
 MK> goodness.  We can do better.

It was only for an emergency use.  I'd rather not use it again.

 MK> You shouldn't need to port or program anything.  All you need has been
 MK> part of linux since before linux even existed.  The ftn requirements
 MK> might be a bit of a hassel due to all the dos-think in it but even
 MK> that can be overcome without getting too fancy.  Internally I wouldn't
 MK> use that mode of thinking but instead could be tacked on when needed
 MK> (dos-think links).  Working on a unix-think bbs offline door for mbse
 MK> using ftp transfers (could be email as well) but am it's in a holding
 MK> pattern as I need to check out some utils I want to add on the bbs
 MK> side so that users don't have much to sweat wrt silly dos-think
 MK> formatting.  :-)

 MK> Getting there.  Are you interested?

I know that each of the functionns can be done by a Linux program.  What
I don't know is if there is an interface to tie all of the functions
together into one package.  I don't care as much if behind the scenes,
different programs are doing the work.  If that is doable, then I am
interested.

Regards,

Stephen
eCS, PPoint/IREX, Fedora Core 5

... My hard disk is 100 percent FAT free

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