Subj : SyncTerm on OSX
To   : Deuce
From : Sam Alexander
Date : Wed Sep 21 2005 11:21 am

  Re: SyncTerm on OSX
  By: Deuce to Sam Alexander on Tue Sep 20 2005 03:33 pm

 >   Re: SyncTerm on OSX
 >   By: Sam Alexander to All on Tue Sep 20 2005 09:52:00
 > 
 >  > Anyone know of a way to get Syncterm to work on OSX without needing X11 o
 >  > anything like that?  It'd be almost as easy for me to Telnet/SSH into my
 >  > Linux box and fire-off SyncTerm on Linux over setting-up X11 since my Mac
 >  > an ibook and doesn't have much free HD space.
 > 
 > Well, there'sthree ways...
 > 1) Fix it up yourself... basically, ciolib needs to be made native on OS/X..
 > as a suggestion, an SDL ciolib module would be perfect as it would also fix 
 > the couple issues on Win32.
 > 2) Wait for me to do it.  During the winter I generally have more free time 
 > my hands, so I'll have time to do a proper port to OSX.
 > 3) Pay me to do it.  I expect it would take about three to five days to get 
 > done... at $30/hr, you'd be looking at aorund $1200  :-)
 
Hi Deuce,

I didn't mean for my post to be negative or to speak against the character 
of you or SyncTerm.  You, Rob, and everyone else who contributes to SYnc and 
BBSing in general are awesome, and I'm the last one to diss anyone who 
volunteers their time to such a project.  If I had the cash to pay for an 
OSX version, you'd definitely have it, or if I had the skill as a programmer 
to do it myself I would .. alas neither of these are so.

I used to program command-line Unix and MS-DOS many years ago in C++ and 
Pascal, so I'd love to help you guys in anyway I can.  I'll start pulling my 
books outta mothballs and read-up on what's required to make sync-compatible 
apps.  I have lots of ideas, but being it's been almost 10 years since I 
wrote anything of length plus I've never written a network aware app, it'll 
take some time to get back into the swing.  I guess every little bit helps 
:)

Thanks for your time, and take care ---

Sam

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