Hey Bob!

Oct 04 18:25 03, Bob Jones wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 BJ> Well, the telnet and serial port code was being worked on by Wes.  
 BJ> Unfortunately, Wes has been very busy with work and family issues 
 BJ> recently....

Understood.

 BJ> As to sqafix wining about an address, there are two locations that 
 BJ> need addresses.  First, those that can request echos from you 
 BJ> (including your own system if you want), which are defined with the 
 BJ> Node lines.  The second is the Uplink line(s) that define one or more 
 BJ> location where you obtain your feed(s) from....  Oh, and of course, 
 BJ> there is the address line that defines your primary fidonet 
 BJ> address....

They look fine to me.  I went over them a hundred times already ... well
maybe a dozen times.

I figured out the problem I was having connecting to your system to direct
crash netmail.  Did you see the netmail there?  The last one I sent still
reported an insecure connection.

 BJ> I'd have to see the non-informative error message to 
 BJ> suggest a fix.....  I do notice that I ended up giving full paths to 
 BJ> various files (like backbone.na) because I never got the relative 
 BJ> file names figured out (I assume for proper subdirectories).....  
 BJ> There may be a bug in SqaFix's directory parsing and appending....

All that looked fine and it never squawked about it.  Just some address and
it won't tell me which one.  Looking at the cfg file I can't see where it
would be.

 MK>> How about VAX/VMS?  Does that count?  That was my 
 MK>> starting point.  Unix - Solaris actually - was a walk 
 MK>> in the park after that.

 BJ> ....  HP 2000E [Basic]....  CDC 6000, Cyber 70 and 170 series 
 BJ> [SCOPE, NOS/BE, NOS], Prime 350 / 550, Vax 11/780 [VMS and BSD], 
 BJ> .....  I better stop this.......

Yep.  You can have them all!!!  I am sticking with Linux.


 BJ> Ok.  Then you should have a good base to work from.  This reminds me 
 BJ> of what I didn't get done with in SqaFix.....  It compiles, but there 
 BJ> are still a few things needing work to get things cleaned up in a 
 BJ> proper way.....

Hmmmmmmmm.  Anyhow I am setting it aside for now and worrying about
protocols.  I see a QWK door in there somewhere.  :-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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