-=> Quoting Gene Buckle to Scott Adams <=-

 >  > Do you think anyone would be interested in a native Linux version of Tele
 >  > 2.7?  I got bored and ported it some years ago.. It builds under Free Pas
 >  >
 >  GB> bah!  I made a mistake.  THe version wasn't 2.7, but 2.5.
 > 
 >      Oh god.  Then no.  :)
 > 
 >      2.5 had some serious bugs in it in some areas if i recall
 >      the code.  At least 2.7 fixed it.  Then in that case
 >      it would be a use at your own risk :)

 GB> The worst of it was in the message areas, especially after the 
 GB> "ReplyTree" effort was backed out.  If I were to spend
more time on it
 GB> the message base code would get thrown out entirely and get replaced
 GB> with call s to MySQL.

     Well now TG uses Jam so that's a big plus.  I have the Msg code
     for version 3 here osmewhere.  Since i was going to write
     some utils awhile back and did a couple.  But not looked
     at it in awhile.  the hard problem is figuring out the Jam
     format. 

 > 
 >      How much did you rewrite of it?
 >
 GB> All the comms code and anything having to do with console-only
 GB> interaction. I also added a "rate-limiter" that would
allow you to pick
 GB> what baud rate you wanted to interact with the BBS at.  ANSI at 300
 GB> baud is a *horror*. :)  I'll see if I can put the thing back up in the
 GB> next couple of days and let you poke at it.

     If you rewrite TG like that at least 75% you can callit your
     own then and not TG.  Course the legal area is 51% in some
     cases.  But I consider at least 90% myself.  The baud thing
     sounds intriguing.  I don't think any other software does that?
     So your calling at 14.4 and you decide to connect or run
     the bbs at 300?  It downgrades the bandwidth?





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