-=> rick christian wrote to Alan Ianson <=-

 AI> 03 */1 * * * touch /usr/local/fido/outbound/00991e23.flo

 rc> That just seems wrong to my brain.... as the mailer should
 rc> have/understand something

It works well in my setup since binkd is daemonized it is always listening
and watching the outbound all I need to do is touch the flow file of the
node I want to poll and I'm done. I don't need to start another binkd.

 rc> something along the lines of

 rc> binkd -nP1:135/0 ~/fido/binkd/binkd.cfg

Ahh.. I haven't used -n before that I remember. That might work better for
what you are doing. If that does what you need to do add a cron entry that
does that.

 rc> While I get that in the net age of Fido, that polling is/may not be as
 rc> imperative... but in my brain PROPER Fido'quette would be to at least
 rc> poll some what every few hours or so...just the way I see it.

It's still what we need to do. I suppose now that there are no tolls we can
poll at will and I usually crash everything to the destination.

 rc> meh....meh... htick and hpt would be nice, if they were separated from
 rc> the rest of the bloat of that other project... I aksed about how to
 rc> separate the bloat in another echo...

Yep, just make and install what you need and your done.. :)

It's important what order you install things.. areafix before hpt etc.

 AI> Both of those are freqable from the authors or I can plonk what I have
 AI> here in your inbound for you to look over.

 rc> You can send them over, still use the temp node we setup for now...
 rc> paperwork still in progress.

 rc> Along with any example setups for both and comments you have on
 rc> preferences.. FREQ-U may be more up my alley, as its FD related...

I like freq-u because it is simple and works the way file requesting always
has worked and the setup is similar to the setup with FD or BinkleyTerm back
in the day.. as far as I remember.. :)

I like mfreq because it is very configurable and like configuring those sort
of things. They both come with example configs.. They'll be in your inbound
shortly so you can look them over and decide.


 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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