Subj : Synchronet can maybe...?
To   : zztzed
From : Time Warrior
Date : Fri Jul 15 2005 09:32 am

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

  To: zztzed
  Re: Synchronet can maybe...?
  By: zztzed to Time Warrior on Fri Jul 15 2005 09:44 am

 > To: Time Warrior
 > Re: Synchronet can maybe...? By: Time Warrior to All on Thu Jul 14
 > 2005 12:54 pm

 >  > This may or may not be true, but i've heard that the *nix version
 >  > Synchronet is coded to only support PC hardware (a major no-no in the *ni
 >  > world from what I understand -- its supposed to communicate with the kern
 >  > for that stuff not the HW directly).
 > It's not so much that it's "coded only to support PC hardware" or that
 > it communicates with the hardware directly, it's more that the code
 > makes certain assumptions about things like byte order that aren't true
 > on other processors like the G3/4/5, SPARC, etc.  In any case, I believe
 > work is underway to make Sync byte-order-agnostic and thus work on any
 > processor regardless of endianness.

 So I'm guessing G2 and lower would work? I'll ask my new friend what his 
proccessor is.

 >  > If I heard correctly, and if anyone might be motivated to correct
 >  > that, I think that Macintrash going to the "Intel" Chipset is something
 >  > Synchronet could take advantage of.
 > While OS X on Intel would make porting Sync in its current state easier
 > since it would resolve any byte-order issues that would exist, there
 > would still likely be work required in making it use OS X APIs, or at
 > least making it conform to the particular quirks of OS X's Unix-like
 > APIs.

 Well, if OSX supports "X Desktop" applications, someone ALOT more 
knowledgable in *nix than I am told me that there *is* a "sbbsctrl" 
equivelent in the *nix version and that it's just not within plain sight. He 
said that he has gotten the "nix sbbsctrl" gui control panel to load.

 I'll have to ask him more about that.

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