* In a message originally to John Dailey, Mark Hoover said:

 MH> From what I understand of most of the people porting to *nix is that
 MH> they're not even doing comm port routines.  I'd get up with Stephen Hurd
 MH> on this for more details, but last I heard they were just
 MH> writing/reading to/from standard input/output and letting the OS/BBS
 MH> take care of the comm routines so to speak.
 MH> Not sure if that makes life easier for you or not....

I hadn't even thought of that.  It's a lot like the old WWIV days when you'd
write just a stdio app and it'd reroute the output for you.

The only dilemma then becomes what to do with all the sysops not running a
BBS package that provides that.  Do I just move on and forget supporting
FOSSIL and serial communications altogether (man, would that be nice)?

I guess it's something I have to experiment with and ask you all your
opinions on.


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