Re: Re: telegard
  By: Scott Adams to Gene Buckle on Thu Jan 04 2007 01:30 am

 >  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.
 >
Mark May's MKMSG(?) libraries go a long way to making JAM nearly trivial to 
work with.  The relevant parts even build under Free Pascal.  I should get
off my butt and port the Turbo Technojock Toolkit one of these days...

 >  >      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?
 > 
Oh it'll always be Telegard 2.5i.  I may add a /Linux to it or use unused
version lettering after the 2.5.

The rate limiter is part of the output routine.  It just sticks the
appropriate delay in before printing each character.  I came up with the
technique for it when I was working on a .Net version of an Apple ][ BBS
called Pirates of Puget Sound.  That will eventually see the light of day as
well. :)

g.
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