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echo: binkd
to: STEPHEN WALSH
from: JOACIM MELIN
date: 2016-03-06 07:59:00
subject: Re: Amibinkd and schedule

 SW>    Hello Joacim!

 SW> 05 Mar 16 11:10, you wrote to all:

 JM>> Amibinkd does not care about poll files with hexadecimal names.
 JM>> Instead, this is the way to do it:
 SW> [...]
 JM>> The file 2.203.0.0. flo will be deleted after every poll and this has
 JM>> to be created again for the next poll to work properly.

 SW> So rudy has hard coded it to use "Amiga Style Outbound" (ASO).

 SW> This option is also present in the normal binkd sample config files.

 SW> This goes back to the day's of when the amiga range of FTN software
 SW> was first 
 SW> developed.



 SW> Stephen

Well, not reallt hardcoded it.  The ASO is an option in the config file but I
simply had no idea what it meant. The lack of proper documentation for Amibinkd
has probably not gone anyone by. 

Joacim

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