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PID: MBSE-BBS 1.0.8 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)
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TID: MBSE-FIDO 1.0.8 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)
-=> Björn Felten wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 BF>    That sounds like a heavy undertaking, are you sure it's worthwhile?

It's not as hard as it seems.  Maarten Berkers (I hope I have his name
right), the author of EleBBS, took all of his FOSSIL/serial code and
released it as EleCOM.  A LOT of people took that foundation and built on
it.

What I am basically doing is porting over a lot of routines I wrote that
will extend Manndoor.  I am also rewriting a few things in Manndoor and
there are parts of Manndoor that were never finished that I will try to work
on.

I will be hosting it on my Sourceforge repo so anyone can take a look.

I have released my door code under the BSD license so anyone can take it
and port it to whatever they want.

 BF>    If I was me, the man I was 40 years ago, I'd go for a GUI for binkd.
 BF> That would really be the Argus of the 2020s. Just a log file GUI
 BF> analyser would be almost revolutionary. 

That's actually an excellent idea.

I could write something like that for MBSE using Lazarus but I think we're
deciding on using SQLite for storage so that will make things orders of
magnitude easier to work with since FreePascal has a very nice SQLite unit.

-- Sean

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