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echo: elebbs_support
to: Mike Ehlert
from: Andrew Leary
date: 2006-01-19 12:59:08
subject: EleBBS: X-Fer issues...

Hello Mike!

Tuesday January 17 2006 14:39, Mike Ehlert wrote to All:

 ME> Keep in mind that RA had thousands of active sysops using it and
 ME> reporting bugs, not to mention a fantastic beta team testing things
 ME> behind the scenes.
 ME> :)

HAD being the operative word, unfortunately.  It's too bad Bruce Morse
hasn't done more with it since he took it over.

 ME> Have you tried using an external protocol instead?  Rob Swindel
 ME> rewrote an excellent Win32 DSZ replacement called SEXYZ, partly based
 ME> on the old zmtx/zmrx protocol. You can grab it here:
 ME> http://archives.thebbs.org/file_transfer_protocols/sexyz171.zip

Very useful site for finding BBS stuff!

 ME> SEXYZ is open source so if that works better, perhaps someone would be
 ME> willing to build it into EleBBS as an internal protocol.

It's probably in C and/or assembler, whereas EleBBS is mostly in Pascal. 
It can be done, but it'll take a bit of work.

Andrew

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