29 May 15 16:18, you wrote to me:
 AI> Hello mark,


 AI>>> I suppose if it has gone unnoticed that long folks must have moved on
 AI>>> and/or found other ways to do what they need to do.

 ml>> what are you trying to do? the function may be handled by another tool
 ml>> already...

 AI> poll is one of the tools I have used, it simply creates a *.?lo for that
 AI> node in the outbound. For my regular polls I just touch that file, but if I
 AI> don't know the filename to touch I'm a little lost.

ahhh... yes, knowing the majik is necessary...

 AI> send and request are much the same but send sends a file and request
 AI> requests a file. The last two can be done easily enough with golded, msged
 AI> or similar. There are other ways to do all that too, I am just accustomed
 AI> to the command line tools.

i haven't done anything with any of them yet... i guess i can pull that
repo and take a look...

 AI> I was looking at the perl files in the hpt directory and wondering if
 AI> that might be a good approach, or some bash magic. I don't have that
 AI> much bash magic though.. ;)

it is possible that a bash script might be written for polling... it should
be easy enough to convert a fidonet address into the proper hex string and
determine the proper directory for the file... i've done it in 4DOS/4OS2
scripting... it isn't vrey pretty but it works... currently it does 5D
because i have nothing that interfaces with BSO on that system... only
binkd... everything else is AMA with a tool to move the mail to fileboxes
for sending...

)\/(ark

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