PE> Hi Bob. Remember that you-beaut auto-TIC-deleter you-beaut
 PE> thingo?
 PE> Well, you may or may not be aware that I am starting to move
 PE> towards Linux.

  Move towards Linux? I thought you were moving towards insanity...

 PE> Here's your big chance to protect your investment (in nullzero)
 PE> by replacing Yatic.

  ROFL! I wondered where all this was leading. For a horrible moment I
thought you wanted me to write a Pascal version of UNIX.

 PE> Yatic takes in a .TIC file and adds the description to
 PE> FILES.BBS. It checks the password and area of course.

  I tried to make sense of YATIC once, but it seems to have been
written by a psychotic potato. Or maybe a banana.

 PE> It is possible that I will simply go to Linux and not offer TIC
 PE> facilities. It is highly likely I will no longer have a BBS
 PE> either, and just go mail-only. 

  Chicken. Are you saying you can't run any DOS, Windows or OS/2
programs? Jeesus. That limits you a bit, doesn't it?

 PE> I don't know what time I will be making the switch.

  Would you like us to synchromise our watches? It is now... Monday.

 PE> I need some more mailprocessing capabilities first.
 PE> (Specifically, something with which to zip up outbound packets
 PE> into the correct binkley outbounds). 

  Okay. I'll knit you a TIC in C. As for the FILES graphics, I'll just 
copy what you've got, using the actual list as a template.

  What do I use for findfirst() in UNIX? And rename() and erase() and
shit like that? I have to be able to manage the files. And how am I
going to check it? I have no intention of loading UNIX on this computer 
or any other.

  The most I will do is write you a TIC for DOS in C, staying close to
ASCII except for DOS files management, and you can do the conversion to 
UNIX. It shouldn't be too hard. I'm good at moving files around.

Regards,
Bob
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