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to: Alan Ianson
from: Maurice Kinal
date: 2005-09-17 09:24:06
subject: Open source front end and tosser for Mystic/Synchronet

Hey Alan!

Sep 16 21:51 05, Alan Ianson wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 AI> Back around '95 or
 AI> so I used to dial up to the Vancouver Community Net with any old
 AI> terminal program and when I logged in I had a menu that had a few
 AI> options on it (Lynx or Pine and a couple others like that). Any
 AI> files I downloaded were in my home directory and I would just
 AI> download them with zmodem. It must have worked something along
 AI> those lines. That was my only internet access at the time!

I was doing a simular thing with a university server pre-isp days, except I
had to hack some thing to work with a DOS terminal to a server running
Solaris.  If I had Linux back then this would have turned out totally
different and I would have ended up ruling the Earth.

Life is good,
Maurice

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