AM>   Just wondering if there's been any mail flowing thru PLUTONIC 
 AM> of late?

Yes, there's a little bit:

 3.639.300.0.FLO              186 ----rwed Yesterday 21:45:01
 3.639.300.0.FR1             2126 ----rwed Yesterday 21:45:00
 3.639.300.0.FR0             3004 ----rwed 27-Aug-96 15:53:01
 3.639.300.0.SA0             7076 ----rwed Wednesday 02:47:22
 3.639.300.0.MO1             1268 ----rwed 14-Sep-96 15:10:39
 3.639.300.0.MO0              951 ----rwed 02-Sep-96 23:55:46
 3.639.300.0.SU0             3188 ----rwed 18-Sep-96 00:16:17

I've done a new PlutScan version some 60% faster (don't scroll the text up
in the CLI window and by crikey it makes a uge difference), that was
released the day before yesterday, in fact.

 AM>   Come to that is anything happening re development on the 
 AM> Plutonic/OzMetro
 AM> front, or are they more or less static now?

I've ditched con: as the ANSI interpreter for OzMetro, and am using a
cwrite.library window instead.  This makes it look heaps better, and the
NORMAL ANSI codes work, so you can use ANSI screens "off the
shelf" from IBM ANSI download areas and editors.  I haven't released
that version of the BBS quite yet, as I need to check it on interlace and
the workbench screen as well as its own.  However it seems to be remarkably
robust, and doesn't leak memory (the old Drip is a choice program).

cwrite.library doesn't understand Esc[1 p/ Esc[0 p to turn the cursor
on/off unfortunately, which is a bit of a snag.  However it has four
cursormodes (none, slow, fast (buggy it says) and ghosted) so turning the
cursor on/off can be done.  (OzMetro has cursor off ALL the time except in
Chat mode).  So I need to make a few changes there.

Development is still occuring, albeit slowly.   Next full release of both
OzMetro and Plutonic are going to be WITH SOURCE and a free keyfile for
Plutonic.  There is a replacement BBS in the works with completely
integrated functions, and that's what I'll be concentrating on.  However,
I'd better hurry up while there are amiga users still out there!

  Mea Culpa,
 Peter Deane

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