Hello Bo.

29 Jun 03 18:32, you wrote to me:

 BS>>> That's quite sad..

 RT>> In a way, yes, we are fortunate that the code is available, and
 RT>> from when I used it, it only needed some "cosmetic" fixing and
 RT>> possibly a few small improvements, but was other wise capable of
 RT>> handling dial-up connections without problems.

 BS> Yeah, fx. scrolling the recent activity, in the manual it says that
 BS> Ctrl-Pageup / Ctrl-Pagedown should do it, by be is a keycode for Ctrl-
 BS> isn't set right.

Yep, features that don't work as they should, not that these hamper 
BinkleyTerm's functionality, but it does detrac from it a bit, also I don't 
like dedicating a comport to the BBS, when using mgetty/mbcico, I can allow 
any number of other programs to access the comport, without having to kill 
anything, if one uses Binkley one has to exit it, if one wants to use a 
terminal program (seyon) to dial out to another BBS on that port. using 
mgetty/mbcico combination, that is not needed, same functionality, can be had 
with getty_ps and ifcico.

 BS>>> Qico is a ifcico clone too, it just has a control interface, and
 BS>>> it runs as deamon because it can dial on flavours you've
 BS>>> configured.. It does only EMSI, but Timesync is under
 BS>>> implementation, i really don't know about YOOHOO..

 RT>> Would seem it only is a partial clone of ifcico, maybe it might
 RT>> be an idea to implement/add the "control interface"
of Qico into
 RT>> ifcico, which already supports most if not all the required
 RT>> FidoNet transfer protocols.

 BS> Well it would be hard, because Qico i a bit rewritten, but fx.
 BS> nodelist format is the same. Whitch i hates, what's wrong about V7?

You think it will be difficult to impliment the "control
interface" used in 
Qico, or don't you think the "control interface" will
"fit" ifcico without a 
major rework.

I like V7 nodelist format myself, use Fastlst to generate a version every 
once in a while. :-)

 BS>>> As a good feature too, it supports Janus, Hydra and Zmodem.. And
 BS>>> i feel than it's faster than BTXE.

 RT>> That maybe ...

 BS> BTXE is suprising one then it DISCONNECT i just do it :) Maybe that
 BS> whitch feels a long time.. I would be nice with somekind of vmodem
 BS> thing for BTXE, i tried with modemu, but i didn't work out..

Hmmm ...

Russell

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