Hey tony!

Feb 22 10:54 05, tony summerfelt wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 ts> that can be said about ANY program you want running in the background 
 ts> on dos...

That hasn't happened here in well over a decade.  The only reason I ask at
all is just in case I happen to stumble across any DOS type people who are
looking to update or replace any of their abandonware.  :-)

 MK>> Are you saying that the source on the development machine is
 MK>> compilable such that the target doesn't require an interpretor?

 ts> yes. that's what i'm doing here.

Now you are getting somewhere on the "very interesting" scale here.

 ts> obviously the cross-platform one i use still needs a host machine to 
 ts> generate the executable. standalone executables on linux aren't 
 ts> foolproof, so it's just easier to give someone the code...

Shouldn't be too big of a problem, except maybe DOS.  I don't know anyone
around here that is still using DOS, let alone with a compiler.  That used
to be me that had to take care of that aspect.  Like I said, I gave that up
over a decade ago.

 ts> most people running linux with any degree of seriosity (tm) can 
 ts> already program to some degree...they usually aren't my target 
 ts> audience :)

You definetly have my attention.  Most of the reason, if not all, for the
interest in the XML-RPC server was to make it easy 
for the Windows users here to use their browsers to do Fido.  If a suitable
method could be found for them to do offline - I like the idea of points
but that is offline of a sort - then that just might prove to be a better
idea .

Life is good,
Maurice

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