Hey Michele!

Oct 02 20:16 03, Michele Marie Dalene wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MMD>     Agreed! Although if you listen to some of the people out there
 MMD> in telnet land there is alot of hostility to dialup only bbs's 
 MMD> though.

I wouldn't know about that.  I still have to get this end up and running.

 MMD> call activly have stopped calling altogether. I have to keep the DSL
 MMD> hot for a few more days or I get stuck with a breach of contract fee
 MMD> of $299! even if I quit a day before my contract expires! Greedy
 MMD> little bastards!

Errrrr, yes they are.  You sound like me.

 MMD>     There is a tool available in msdos for maximus called
 MMD> bone2cfg. its a 3rd party utility that does just that. it reads the
 MMD> fidonet.na or whatever the .na file for the other networks is called
 MMD> and makes the desired squish.cfg, and msgarea.ctl files. It made 
 MMD> quick
 MMD> work of a nightmare for me. The tool is not totally perfect though.
 MMD> However, you could probally do the same with the bash shell or awk.

That is what I was thinking.  I also thought a tagger where the backbone
was displayed with checkboxes would be nice.  I wrote a bash script years
ago using dialog to display the checkbox.  Then it was a simple matter of
using the spacebar to turn on/off which echoes one wished to turn on/off. 
It would also be good for users and the BBS for both messaging and file
selection type of activities.

Life is good,
Maurice

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