-={ Wednesday, 23 March 2016, 07:29:03 -0400 }=-

Hey Shawn!

 SH> What's my excuse then? I feel old as hell but I'm not.

I know young people that feel the weight of the world and thus are old before
their time.  I am not sure this is a sign of the times type dealie though since
I seem to recall the same dealie back when I was sporting a younger number.

 SH> just with these discussions I've gotten a way to view UTF8
 SH> charactors, dos ansi viewers, and everything else working on my
 SH> old dosbox setup.

That puts you way ahead of the Windows crowd from my understanding of the
situation.  I was just reading a bunch of posts about the console on Windows
boxes and it's lameness when it comes to this very issue.  I for one am more
than happy to share what I have learned over the years to make this a reality
for all fidonet users.

Speaking of helpful discussions;

 SH> Now it's time to work on my Golded linux setup and see if I can't
 SH> get that working correctly.

It will fail when you try to create or reply and quote utf8 messages.  Same
with msged while we're at it.  This is *exactly* why Nicholas Boel and I
started discussing things like vim and/or nano backends for golded and/or msged
to compensate for their obvious abandonware handicaps.

Life is good,
Maurice

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