SH> Well... after the next release of Synchronet (soon) a patch set that
 SH> already exists is going to be applied to the source tree in CVS to
 SH> allow it to  run on OS/X... if the OpenDoors package isn't already
 SH> buildable/working on OS/X  I could quickly add that in...

  Synchronet is growing on me (I've been using it to test pretty
much everything BBS related these days).  An OS/X version would be awesome.

 SH> As far as that goes, every terminal program for MacOS that I've seen
 SH> recently handles high ascii well... I could most likely even hack
 SH> together an ANSI editor for OS/X if one doesn't exist already
 SH> (I've got one I ported to FreeBSD... the changes to OS/X would be
 SH> mostly trivial)

Are you sure about that?  There are plenty of classic OS 9 telnet apps out
there, but I've stopped running it at all.  I haven't found any OS/X telnet
app that works good with high-ascii.  In fact, I decided to just write my
own last week.

It's an OS/X, Win32 and Linux GUI telnet app with full ANSI and ANSI Music
(fore and background).  I'm using it right now as a matter of fact.

It will have built-in support for the GWTerm protocol in a short while as
well (which is one of the major reasons I started down this path).

 SH> I personally would love to see *BSD, Solaris, and Linux versions so I
 SH> could add them to my BBS... and am more than willing to help in any
 SH> way I can... my  next new computer is planned to be a Mac. My
 SH> primary OS is currently FreeBSD  and I love what OS/X has done with
 SH> the place.  :-)

Yes, OS/X is a HUGE improvement on the Mac I've loved for so long.  They
really have done an incredible job.  You'll be happy, I'm sure (after the
initial sticker shock anyway).  Thanks for the offer of help - I'm sure I'll
be asking for it later.

 SH> Come on... you know you wanna...  *tempt* *tempt*

I sure do, make no mistake :)

-j


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