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RealName: August Abolins 2:221/1.58
 CP> Hello, August Abolins.
 CP> On 11/1/20 6:13 PM you wrote:
 CP> 
 CP> AA> On 01/11/2020 9:53 a.m., Mauro Veiga : AUGUST ABOLINS wrote:
 CP> MV>>> Okay. I wait for Stas make the tutorial. There are areas that he 
 CP> MV>>> doesn't echo and other FTN networks that could benefit from it.
 CP> AA> [snip] Currently, we are looking to open the gate for echos that 
 CP> AA> can accommodate free-flow paragraphs. Anything with a fixed-width 
 CP> AA> line-length looks a bit jagged on the Telegram side.
 CP> 
 CP> Wait, there are echo's that are fixed width?
 CP> 
 CP> MV>> I read FUTURE4FIDO. Thanks.
 CP> AA> Try to read some of his earlier posts. He mentions that there 
 CP> AA> won't be any step-by-step guide. It will require some coding 
 CP> AA> prowess to adapt the gate to match your own particular 
 CP> AA> configuration. The code is in perl.  Thus, a *nix system would be 
 CP> AA> required.
 CP> 
 CP> You can do perl in DOS.  I think there might be a couple of restritions
there, but it's do able.
 CP> 
 CP> 
 CP> --
 CP> Best regards!
 CP> Posted using Hotdoged on Android

Thanks for that. I just learned something!  :)  i really enjoyed using the
unix-for-dos utils (a library of *nix equivalent executables for the DOS
command line) .. in the 90's.

Depending on the functions that the tg2fido perl uses:

--[begin citation]--
Perl under DOS lacks some features of perl under UNIX because of deficiencies
in the UNIX-emulation, most notably:

[o]    fork() and pipe()

[o]    some features of the UNIX filesystem regarding link count and file dates

[o]    in-place operation is a little bit broken with short filenames sockets
--[end citation]--

..it may or may not be possible in DOS.

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