Station visitors can now post messages directly to the station mail
via the new NPS Service running on port 1915. To get started send
'help' command like so:
$ echo help | nc nex.runBSD.io 1915
$ help
history: today in history
awkball: ask a question
date: show date
gbook: sign the guest book
fortune: get a fortune
dict: lookup word
examples:
$ echo fortune |nc nex.run.BSD.io 1915 #> get fortune
$ echo dict AWK |nc nex.runBSD.io 1915 #> lookup 'AWK'
$ nc -N nex.runBSD.io 1915 #> add a guestbook entry
gbook
A ping from the Digital Void
Lets keep the smolnet growing!
.
^D
=> message written.
The mailbag is a standard Nex index file so guest posts may include
nex-style "rocket links" which many clients understand; links shoul
start at the first column and be of the following form:
=> URL <optional descriptive text>
example: '=> gopher://gopher.club -- SDF Gopher Club'
Note that the space between "=>" and the URL is required.
A NPS client is available below; it's a simple shell script that sh
work on most Unix-like systems:
(TXT) nps_client.sh