Subj : testing To : Maurice Kinal From : Russell Tiedt Date : Sun Mar 06 2005 07:42 pm Hello Maurice. 03 Mar 05 10:43, you wrote to me: RT>> Progress ... MK> Yep. Managed to make some today but only regarding terminal usage. I MK> decided to take care of my needs first and then worry about httpd. MK> This way all the "meat and potatoes" issues, such as dupechecking, MK> will be taken care of and can be recycled to the XML-RPC BBS thingy. Makes sense ... MK>>> One step at a time. RT>> The only way ... MK> Certainly looks that way so far. Other then some of the txt2pkt.pl MK> script I haven't found that much Perl stuff for this particular MK> project. The POSIX module is definetly a handy-dandy module for the MK> cause and ought to take care of incompatibilities regarding any other MK> OS client connecting to the BBS. If done "right" they won't even have MK> to get the time "right" since I don't plan that as input to the MK> server. Good stuff! Sounds reasonable here ... Enjoy! Russell --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.4.7 * Origin: Rusty's BBS - Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa (5:7105/1) .