Subj : Re: Android QWK readers.
To   : Alan Ianson
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Tue Dec 01 2020 01:19 pm

On 30 Nov 2020, Alan Ianson said the following...
 
 AI>   Re: Re: Android QWK readers.
 AI>   By: Robert Wolfe to Alan Ianson on Mon Nov 30 2020 06:03 pm
 AI> 
 AI>  RW> I believe Android apps are written in Java. If so that so, then 
 AI>  RW> MultiMail and SyncTerm would need to be ported to Java as well.
 AI> 
 AI> Yes, I think a lot of what you see on the android is Java. Someone gave
 AI> me another option but it was just as alien to me.
 AI> 
 AI> A couple problems I see with MultiMail on the android is Zip and Unzip.
 AI> Maybe that is already there, I'm not sure. We'd also need a way to
 AI> down/upload mail packets and replies.
 AI> 
 AI> I was reading in another area a couple people are running BBSs on their
 AI> phones.
 AI> 
 AI> 
 AI> If those BBSs are capable of creating QWK packets they might be looking
 AI> for an OLR to go with it.. :)
 AI> 
 AI>  Ttyl :-),
 AI>          Al

I'm one of those people, but strictly speaking the BBS is running on a VM
Linux system with a Raspberry Pi release of the software.

If QWK readers would run on a Raspberry PI, it should work the same way.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
 * Origin: The Oasis BBS HOUSTON TX theoasisbbs.ddns.net (1:153/757.26)

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