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 Hello, Michael Epler, I'd like you to meet my friend, Harvey...
TR>> Not quite ... Mustang's Wildcat5 aka WinServer already does 
TR>> this.  
TR>> In fact, Wynn Wagner mentioned Wildcat5 to me as the 
TR>> possible "future" not so long ago.  
I'll eat my modem before I run a Win BBS. I'll eat nine modems before I lock 
myself into a VERY EXPENSIVE closed/proprietary BBS.
 ME> Bingo..... yes, I have seen this file available on several wc 
 ME> systems. All I am suggesting is that OEC/MECCA tokens, 
 ME> compilers and decompilers are similiar in concept to the tokens 
 ME> used in HTML. Since I do not program, I have no honest idea how 
 ME> hard it is to make it work.......
I can see how you think there are parallels,  but  it really is quite 
different.  
Under dialup/terminal, the BBS asks the terminal software what it can handle, 
and/or the user sets his preferences/capabilities in the BBS database. The 
BBS does the interpretation and sends what the terminal can handle.
'Browsers'  interpret and display what they can  handle, and throw away 
everything else. That's how you can send frames/images/sound to Lynx and it 
doesn't explode. Send ANSI colors  to a non-ansi user and they gibberish.
Yes, it would be nice to have an 'HTML' option in the user's terminal 
capabilities. But the real trick is for Opus to just plain connect with PPP.  
It's at -that- point that -my- programming and understanding leaves  off. [G]
:-)
jB-)
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