Re: Re: MHS Gateway SBBS / WG / Major BBS
  By: Ragnarok to Digital Man on Fri Jan 08 2021 06:09 pm

 > El 8/1/21 a las 06:33, Digital Man escribi¢:
 > >    Re: MHS Gateway SBBS / WG / Major BBS
 > >    By: Ragnarok to All on Fri Jan 08 2021 04:41 am
 >
 > >   > Hi all!
 > >   >
 > >   > I'm working on my mhsgateway between sbbs  worldgroup
 >
 > > Cool. MHS support for Synchronet was on my todo list a *long* time ago. I
 > > have (or had?) the SMF v70 spec from Novell (bound book) as well. But
 > > never got around to it. Glad somebody finally is! Hopefully JS (jsexec)
 > > makes it easy. :-)
 >
 >
 > Yes, I must admit that I never used novell mhs, I only knew it from WG.
 >
 > Unfortunately it is difficult to get information from both MHS and
 > SFM-70 on the web. I am doing reverse engineering of files that export
 > and import WG
 >
 > I found some problems in WG with the dates, that the original value of
 > messages did not imported, but I was able to patch the galmhs.dll module
 > with the help of Duckula from TheMajorBBS project and now it works
 > correctly.
 >
 > Another problem is that WG doesn't export the date header either.
 >
 > The first option is to take the creation date of the exported file as
 > the shipping date
 >
 > The second option is to also patch galmhs.dll when exporting so that it
 > adds that header.
 >
 > Is it possible that the book you have will be digitized?

I don't know. It's a Novell publication:
NOVELL
SMV v71 Programmer's Reference
Software Developer's Kit
100-001213-001

I couldn't find it anywhere for purchase online, but if you think it'd be helpful to you, send me your address and I'll send it to you. I don't think I'll have any use for it in the future.
I did find these related references online which look maybe helpful:
https://support.novell.com/techcenter/articles/dnd19950501.html
https://support.novell.com/techcenter/articles/dnd19950701.html

 > Truly jsexec was the best idea to allow extending the SBBS features.

I took inspiration from Mozilla's jsshell, but it has worked well for us to have an external interpretter. And there's a sort of fork of it called jsdoor too, which doesn't require a Synchronet installation.
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