Subj : Rust poker game (and rmw)
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Andrew Alt
Date : Mon Aug 31 2020 01:54:26

-=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Andrew Alt <=-

 MK> Hey Andrew!

 AA> Though I'm stuck figuring out how to code the flow with the GUI,
 AA> and have cataract surgery scheduled on Oct 2,

 MK> Ouch.  I don't envy you any, especially the surgery part.  As for
 MK> programming, I swore off of GUI progamming after writing a printer
 MK> driver for Win-3.1 way back in the day.  I've lived up to that oath
 MK> ever since which makes it about 30-ish years.

My first attempt at GUI programming. I think for me the one big advantage to being
able to write an app with a GUI is that maybe my nephews and nieces will be more
interested in software I develop! :)

 AA> https://remove-to-waste.info/

 MK> Consider it bookmarked.  :-)

Thanks. :)

 AA> Also I took over as maintainer of the abandoned modemu project

 MK> That sounds familiar.  If I am not mistaken I first heard about it back
 MK> in 1995-ish perhaps a year or two later.  I last had a working modem
 MK> (external) around then so something like that would have gotten my
 MK> attention.

That must be the same one. The copyright info in the source indicates 1996. I can't say I understand the code much, but I was able to make it ipv6 capable, fixed some warnings, and made sure it would compile with gcc 10 (made sure it compiles with the -fno-common flag), and added a configure script (with autoconf).

I actually got some very nice feedback from the sysop of the Rusty Mailbox last

year. He said he noticed it come through filegate and tried it out. He was a regular use of modemu but it stopped working for him. It worked for him after my
updates :)

 AA> https://github.com/theimpossibleastronaut/modemu2k

 MK> Also bookmarked.  I'll check it out later as you've got my curiousity
 MK> aroused. I am not sure at this stage of the game I'd be keen to use a
 MK> modem emulator on minicom.  The last time I played with minicom was to
 MK> output raw GPS sentences from a usb GPS reciever about 15-ish years
 MK> ago.  I still have the reciever but last time I played with it was with
 MK> gpsd.

Sure, I wasn't really recommending you switch from whatever you use now, just me
shamelessly advertising a little. More fun to maintain software when people know
about it.

Though I think rmw you'd definitely have a use for! Great for anyone who works at
the command line when they are tired. ;)

Are you working on any interesting projects these days, Maurice?

--
-Andy


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