Hello Michiel,

BF>>>> Ah well, CP 850 is the primary code page and default OEM code
BF>>>> page in many countries,

MvdV>>> For DOS.

BF>> In case you didn't know it, Fidonet is and has always been a DOS
BF>> based network.

MvdV> Not any more.
MvdV> Systen running on pure DOS are the rare exceptions these days.

Mine for instance ;-).

MvdV> The vast majority runs on Windows or Linux. A minority on OS/2.

BF>> All you have to do is look at all the eight bit structures of all our
BF>> definitions. Ever since we got 16-bit

MvdV> You may have forgotten, but Fidonet started on 16 bit systems. AFAIK no
MvdV> Fidonet mailer ever ran on an 8 bit system.

That is not completely sure.
Some guys of our othernet AcoNet wrote FTN BBCscan software for the 8 bit
Acorn BBC B computers to communicatie with FidoNet systems.
That was at the end of the 80's start of the 90's.

MvdV> FWIW I once considered writing a Fidonet mailer for my 8 bit 6808 Flex
MvdV> system. The show stopper was that ARC was a bridge too far for it.

We had a ARC routine for the Acorn BBC B.
Ask Simon Voortman about it.

BF>> and then 32 and now 64-bit systems, I've been fighting with stuff like
BF>> big vs. little endians and similar, I happen to know.

I have heard that terms before, and I neither understood it.

Henri.

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