Subj : MS-DOS BBS Client Recommendations?
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : mark lewis
Date : Fri Dec 16 2016 09:42 am


16 Dec 16 07:20, you wrote to me:

 NB>>> Yeah, that's basically how it works. It's a full screen reader, and
 NB>>> when you want to reply, you can hit "R" to reply to the message,
 NB>>> which then would open up SlyDCTedit, SlyIceEdit, or whatever editor
 NB>>> you have configured to use.

 ml>> i think you're thinking of the digital distortion's message lister...

 NB> No, I'm not. I'm specifically referring to DDMR, or Digital
 NB> Distortion's Message Reader. Please just try it out, rather than
 NB> assume you know what I'm talking about. :)

ok... we'll have to look and see if we can find it... the only digital 
distortions stuff max has on her sbbs is slyedit... no ddml or ddmr...

 ml>> slyedit has three start up modes, DCT, ICE or RANDOM... the message
 ml>> lister thing is something separate and i don't find any indication of
 ml>> it in Max's setup... the slyedit stuff is there and the docs do
 ml>> reference the DDML but that's all i can find about it... AFAIK,
 ml>> slyedit came with sbbs when Max first pulled it off the repo and
 ml>> compiled it... i'm not aware of anything special done to acquire
 ml>> it...

 NB> The new message reader has the message lister built into it, However,
 NB> it started out as a message reader, and evolved to incorporate some of
 NB> his other separate mods now.

we'll see if we can find it... hopefully it is included in sbbs like slyedit 
was so that it can/will be updated when an update from the sbbs repo is made...

)\/(ark

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