Subj : ruby and perl To : tony summerfelt From : Maurice Kinal Date : Tue Feb 22 2005 08:25 am Hey tony! Feb 22 10:54 05, tony summerfelt wrote to Maurice Kinal: ts> that can be said about ANY program you want running in the background ts> on dos... That hasn't happened here in well over a decade. The only reason I ask at all is just in case I happen to stumble across any DOS type people who are looking to update or replace any of their abandonware. :-) MK>> Are you saying that the source on the development machine is MK>> compilable such that the target doesn't require an interpretor? ts> yes. that's what i'm doing here. Now you are getting somewhere on the "very interesting" scale here. ts> obviously the cross-platform one i use still needs a host machine to ts> generate the executable. standalone executables on linux aren't ts> foolproof, so it's just easier to give someone the code... Shouldn't be too big of a problem, except maybe DOS. I don't know anyone around here that is still using DOS, let alone with a compiler. That used to be me that had to take care of that aspect. Like I said, I gave that up over a decade ago. ts> most people running linux with any degree of seriosity (tm) can ts> already program to some degree...they usually aren't my target ts> audience :) You definetly have my attention. Most of the reason, if not all, for the interest in the XML-RPC server was to make it easy for the Windows users here to use their browsers to do Fido. If a suitable method could be found for them to do offline - I like the idea of points but that is offline of a sort - then that just might prove to be a better idea . Life is good, Maurice --- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 * Origin: Coffin Point - Ladysmith, BC Canada (1:153/401.1) .