Subj : Re: Is there a JAM library?
To   : Rick Christian
From : Rich Lawrence
Date : Tue Nov 22 2016 08:09:00

On 11/20/16, Rick Christian said the following...
 
 RC> For some stuff higher up the food chain, PKT's and NL's
 RC> 
 RC> https://github.com/fidoman/PyFTN
 RC> 
 RC> This one is 3.x+ ONLY.

I'm sticking to 2.x but I'll check it out and may get some insight on how to
do some things. 

 RC> 
 RC> https://github.com/larsks/python-ftn/wiki
 RC> 
 RC> This one is 2.x and works with similar PKT and other stuff..

I think I found both of these. I'm going to look closer at them, just because
it appears that JAM is just going to be too tough to do based on the
documentation. I read the JAM stuff and my mind melts. I just can't wrap my
head around binary file manipulation... yet! Never give up! Never Surrender!

 RC> Neither are JAM base, but FYI for you if you want to work with stuff
 RC> further up.

Yes I do. I'm trying to code a CNet BBS clone in Python and make it more
modern on the backend. I figured JAM would be easy for fido/FTN capabilities.
Just bake it in. But it seems to be outside my skills for now. I'll look at
these and work on trying rolling my own toss to bring stuff in and out of the
message bases. 

 RC> And just FYI the Jam Lib stuff (which is C) has issues on 64b v. 32b...
 RC> As my JamNNTPd version has to force 32b or it corrupts the JAM bases. At
 RC> least posting wise.. reading doesn't seem to be an issue.. Just FYI...

OK, good to know! Thank you!

73.
de Rich, KB2MOB

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