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Hi Simon,

Simon Avery to Paul Walker, 29 Mar 99 18:38.

 PW>> Er .. I think I need the moderators opinion on whether to leave
 PW>> this thread/any replies in here, or move it to a more appropriate
 SA> Only other suitable echo I can think of is NET_DEV, and it tends to be

The moderator hath spoken, so we land on NET_DEV. Briefly.

 SA>>> The ability to inherit settings from existing tossers. No way
 PW>> Meep. Far too many to do that with, sorry. You could write a
 SA> Noted, and yep - I spect I could do a third party widget for at least
 SA> Fastecho. Maybe even Fmail too, but you'd have to test that one. :)

I could probably write one for fmail, if I wanted. :) I'm looking at 
fidoconfig at the moment, though (sort of generic config thingy). If I can 
ever get the damn thing to compile, I'll look a little more seriously.

 SA>>> All the good bits of Fmail, Gecho and Fastecho. :)
 PW>> Not too precise... ;-)
 SA> There's a lot of 'em!

I think I've got most of the basic ones. The rest can be added with 
reasonable ease.

[specs for hudson]
 SA> MKMAy's stuff for Pascal which you might be able to fiddle with

Got that already, ta.

 PW>> Squish would involve me looking through the API to try and
 PW>> extract the specs. Not pretty.
 SA> I actually found it a lot easier than the JAM api to work with.

Spaghetti is easier to work with than the JAM api; extracting a usable set 
of structures and explanations of what the elements do is another matter 
entirely.

If anyone has the equivalent of the JAM API for Squish handy, by the way, 
the email address is below... ;)

 SA>>> 'Standard' output files. areas.bbs, echolist.na, etc.
 PW>> Oops.
 SA> Ha!

Still haven't done those. What's the format for echolist.na?

  Paul              (p.r.walker{at}warwick.ac.uk)                 

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