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echo: wildcat!_support
to: ROB SWINDELL
from: ROBERT WOLFE
date: 2019-02-03 19:29:00
subject: RE: Pipe Color Code Trans

On Feb 03, 2019 03:18pm, Rob Swindell wrote to Robert Wolfe:

 RS>   Re: Pipe Color Code Translation
 RS>   By: Robert Wolfe to All on Sun Feb 03 2019 12:35 pm

 >> So, passed the following idea along to Santronics this afternoon re:pipe
 >> color codes:
 >>
 >> "I was wondering if you would consider pipe color codes to @-code
 >> translation on
 >> import in PXECHO/PXMAIL?  There are lots of Mystic boards on the networks
 >> these days and a lot of their users post using their software native pipe
 >> codes for color.  I was wondering if, when importing messages,
 >> PXMAIL/ECHO
 >> could check for
 >> "Mystic BBS" in the @TID line in the message header and translate the
 >> color
 >> pipe
 >> codes properly before putting them into the message database?"

 RS> That seems like a weird place to do the translation (in the tosser).
 RS> What if you have a network of Mystic systems with a Wildcat! hub? Would
 RS> the Wildcat! hub have to convert all colors codes back to pipe-codes
 RS> before sending to the Mystic nodes? And what if some of the nodes
 RS> weren't running Mystic? The hub would have to know what software was in
 RS> use at all times for each node to convert color codes correctly. Seems
 RS> like a mess to me.

Well, it was just an idea.  :)  I know that it does the same thing for PCBoard
@-codes.  But, again, just an idea, just a starting point.  Nothing else.

... Robert Wolfe , Sysop, Omicron Theta BBS
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