Hey Janis!

> Fancy meeting you here   Just figured I'd post and say
> hi 

For sure.

> Qedit is one that never got used here much.. probably because
> I was in the DOS world for such a short time, then switched to
> OS/2, then linux

Funny that you didn't run across it in OS/2 since it got much usage there,
perhaps even moreso than on DOS.  I think I stumbled across it roughly in
93-94ish.  Early 90's sometime.  Only used it on DOS though. Didn't bother
much with OS/2 myself and made the leap from DOS to Linux. Been well over a
decade since last seeing qedit.

> I'll have to ask Nancy if it uses the Ctrl+? keys that PCDos's
> Wordstar uses?

From what I see in the micro-emacs I am guessing it is close if not exactly the same.

> If so, and if she's running linux she should try the joe editor

She is using DOS.  An older micro-emacs from the sounds of it.

> That's good :)

We'll see.  I still haven't done much about testgrab.zip other than to
figure out what I might do about linux-ing the idea up.  Once you let me
know what the upload packet should be named I'd be happy to give that a
try.  As is the downloaded testgrab.zip's format looks like it will be
suitable to the evil, demented plan although it would be nice to ditch zip.
 ;-)

> Here's a look a the nodelist files since August,

The two I noticed lately claimed they haven't had anything to do with Fido
in over a decade and are just restarting again.

> Ok pretty small compared to the "old days"

For sure.  However I still maintain that the true health is in BBS's
userlist and not in the nodelist.  I am doing my part by supporting your
BBS.  Now I expect that eventually you'll return the favour.  ;-)

Offlning is the answer.  Your web interface times out too soon for
messaging and the telnet interface isn't cooperating with my plan. The
solution looks to be in testgrab.zip methinks.  I have it working with wget
and ncftp.  I am thinking of using perl and it's ftp module just for fun. 
That potentially could be portable if it already isn't a done deal.  I did
note that bbbs is cooperative with perl which makes this idea interesting.

Life is good,
Maurice

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