Subj : Re: The Documentary...
To   : Deuce
From : sinister x
Date : Mon Aug 22 2005 12:42 pm

    
 > I'm pretty sure you can update scan pointers from JS already... Yeah,
 > msg_area.grp_list.sub_list[].scan_ptr

I was actually thinking of going ahead and writing a message reader for 
synchronet in js that would be a fullscreen reader. It'd be totally possible 
as long as I have it do its own routines for checking either 
forward/new/search messages. Only problem comes with replies since there's 
only one bbs.post_msg function and it doesn't take a subject argument. Other 
than that there's the issue of synchronet asking for new messages and also 
checking emails in your login which would cause synch to go through the 
regular reader interface (any way to turn those both off for all users so I 
can overwrite them with my own routines before starting the command shell?). 
Basically I would just call my own js prog with arguments and handle all the 
queries myself for the reader (and change up all my command shells to call 
that instead of the message reader). But I can't think of a way around the 
subject line problem without writing my own editor at this point in js to 
compliment the reader.

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