Hey Gert!

Aug 27 19:58 07, Gert Koefoed Andersen wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 GKA> Yes, mbse work fine on gentoo, then is there coming a new fidogate 
 GKA> version made by gentoo developer in gento + linux portager + a 

Neither of which are husky.  I haven't tried mbse lately but the last time
I did it seemed to build okay.  As for fidogate I don't have a need or use
for that.

 GKA> ebuild for fidogate, binkd is too running fine on gentoo.

I have some issues with binkd but it doesn't get much use so it really
isn't a problem.  Do you get many connections on binkd?  Myself I don't so
it wouldn't hurt much to lose it.

 GKA> I shall have linux news server and client INN to work to work for 
 GKA> gating newsgroup and lists to work for transfer it echoes by 
 GKA> fidogate,

I see no point to that.  Newsgroups have worked since day one and never
ever required any special handling.  I don't understand the need for
fidogate if that is the only reason.  Is there something simular just for
fido echoes and is there even a need for such a thing to start with?

 GKA> So shall a technical point number be setup for work with it, I thing 
 GKA> it must be such way that if I can make some other util like a good 
 GKA> perl .pl file there too can work in a .pkt file and rename echo tags 
 GKA> from one zone to another.

I found nothing that really requires perl, other than the pack and unpack
functions for the 16-bit integers required by the pkt format.  It can be
handled by ascii2binary which effectively eliminates that dependency. 
Internally nothing requires that silliness so other than outbound I see no
need for such things.

 GKA> Like fido echo linux is packet to point 900:104/1.1 then will perl 
 GKA> g-echo.pl open the .pkt file and change Linux to rm_linux and make a 
 GKA> new .pkt file ..

A bash scripted ascii2binary does the trick and no need for perl whatsoever
to handle that part.

What else?

Life is good,
Maurice

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