Subj : perl before swine To : Maurice Kinal From : Russell Tiedt Date : Tue Mar 29 2005 12:32 pm Hello Maurice. 25 Mar 05 07:50, you wrote to me: RT>> Ah, okay, glx, you say, that is good.... framebuffers even RT>> better. Well it would be nice if you could fix the fido stuff, RT>> even if minimally. MK> Perhaps. Looking at it as is, and pondering about all messaging - MK> email etc. - it seems to me that a more generic method for local MK> reading/writing would be a better pursuit. I am going to try MK> something later on once I resolve a few more pressing issues. I want MK> to recreate my "stable" partition now that I figured out what I want MK> and need. Well, "mbox" or "news spool" are native Linux message storage formats, that work for large "message bases" and editors for both are plentifull, there is a news2mail and a mail to news filter already available, so you just need to ad a FidoNet one, and you have most bases covered. Knowing exactly what you want to do, helps matters no end. RT>> Would make life a little simpler ... :-) MK> For who? If for myself then there will be wholesale changes. I could MK> easily get rid of the entire FTN structures and make this far more MK> useable. Whoever invented this messaging structure ought to be MK> ashamed. It is almost a silly as Microsoft methodologies, although MK> that is probably a bad comparison seeing MS has so many people duped MK> into thinking their stupidity is required, whereas Fido has MK> diddley-squat in the way of useage. Oh well. No big deal in the MK> final analysis but I am still going to snicker when people call this a MK> hobby. Is that okay? Well, the fact that most of it originated on DOS systems, and their limitations, keeping that in mind, will give one grounds for "extenuating circumstances" RT>>> Duped? MK>> Aren't we all? RT>> Hmmm .... somehow somewhere .... :-( MK> For sure. A bad joke. Yep. Russell --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5 * Origin: Rusty's BBS - Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa (5:7105/1) .