Re: Re: telegard
  By: Scott Adams to Gene Buckle on Tue Dec 26 2006 03:59 am

 >  -=> Quoting Gene Buckle to Gene Buckle <=-
 > 
 >  >   Re: Re: telegard
 >  >   By: Bryan Hamilton to Sean Dennis on Wed Dec 13 2006 07:29 pm
 >  >
 >  >  >  SD> Bryan Hamilton wrote in a message to All:
 >  >  >  BH> so what's the lastest info on telegard? any new developers?
 >  >  >  SD> Nope. Telegard is dead in the water. Check out:
 >  >  >  SD> http://www.wikipedia.org/telegard (I believe it's right) -
 >  >  >
 >  >  > the right address is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegard and i'll st
 >  >  > reading it right after I post this msg
 >  >  >
 >  >
 >  > 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 :)

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

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

g.
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