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.......
 jb> I can see how you think there are parallels,  but  it 
 jb> really is quite different.  
 jb> Under dialup/terminal, the BBS asks the terminal 
 jb> software what it can handle, and/or the user sets his 
 jb> preferences/capabilities in the BBS database. The BBS 
 jb> does the interpretation and sends what the terminal can 
 jb> handle.
 jb> 'Browsers'  interpret and display what they can  
 jb> handle, and throw away everything else. That's how you 
 jb> can send frames/images/sound to Lynx and it doesn't 
 jb> explode. Send ANSI colors  to a non-ansi user and they 
Most of this was in the other post directly from the HTML source.
This is the last post I prefer to make about this since it seems no matter 
what is said you want to either dismiss it or argue it, I choose to do 
neither. I happen to work enough with HTML to construct pages and have worked 
with oec/mecca stuff from the beginning in opus. I use NETSCAPE and EUDORIA 
daily as well as w95 and NT because my job requires it. I don't claim to be 
an expert, but I do know how this stuff works on more than a passing basis.
It also seems that others have already written conversion programs to take 
FILES.BBS and make it HTML. Seems other software authors beyond MSI also 
think there is room for products that straddle both areas:
                                                    
WEBBBS11.ZIP [    ] WebBBS runs on your Bulletin Board System as a door
                    program. When callers connect to your BBS using
                    combination internet browser & modem terminal software
                    such as I-comm they will see HTML pages with SVGA
                    pictures, WWW internet style web pages just like on
                    internet.
All I ever requested was that future opus work moves in that direction. The 
developer didn't say it could not happen, you did.   For all I know someone 
might write a combined term prog/offline reader/browser that doesn't care 
what it is dialing or receiving because it is smart enough to handle all of 
it.
With the new java stuff coming almost anything could happen...... end of 
thread.
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