Hi Maurice!

>> I was using some character based editor in os/2

> qedit was (is?) character based.

Darn, wish I had some of my old back up disks around, I could check and see
what I used haha ... well, those floppies probably ARE in the closet
someplace.. the trouble now is none of these systems have drives anymore :)

> The help thingy in joe is very
> simular to the one in qedit back then although the commands were
> totally different, alt instead of ctl being the most obvious difference.

Ah ok..

> joe weighs in at around 500k these days not counting the macros etc in
> /usr/share.  I just built joe to have a looksee and it the package is
> under 2M compared to just under 7M for micro-emacs.  Of the two I'd say
> joe wins since it can handle more than enough of what is needed for a
> text editor.  All my searches for qedit result in gui ports which is of
> no consequence as that isn't the same as I remember it.  Saw a screenshot
> of a java based one that sent a cold shiver down my spine.

eek :) :) :)

> What is the world coming to?!?!?!?!  :::sigh:::

Know what you mean.. Ron is very sold on the gui interface of ubuntu.. I
just can't make myself be .. I guess it's because he designs
software for it - who knows.. we do have to eat afterall  So say
if we are looking at logs, I'm at the command line looking at it, and he's
looking at it with some desktop program :) guess there's not that much
difference really hehe

>> Try naming it upload.zip .. I can't find anything in the docs

> Yeah.  All I could find about it was that it can be uploaded using a
> ftp 'put' function.  If a grab using a ftp 'get' functon produces a
> testgrab then perhaps a 'put' should be testthrow???  Mind you that
> is one character too long for the DOS-think Fido sysops so logic and
> DOS-think dictates something like testtoss.

hahaha - sure try that then but testgrab is just a dumb name I came up with
when I installed bbbs..I'm pretty sure at least :)  The field in the config
file could have been filled out for you with a suggested name (default) but
I think I typed that in there years and years ago.. "testing
grab" 

Think I found something in the docs.. I just kept following links
.. The docs talk about bbbs's bftp not having resume, but
otherwise being a full-featured ftp server:

"Users have the ability of downloading offline mail (grab) packets via
FTP with the default or their configured grab format.  By issuing the get
grab and put grab commands, a user can download and upload offline grab
packets via the FTP service. For simplicity sake, when advertising this
ability, it might be best if the user understands that although a get grab
command will download a grab packet, their FTP client will also save the
file as simply grab.  It might be wise to note that users should issue a
get grab [packet-name] command (ie. get grab fb.qwk or something similar)
that would be easily identifiable as a grab packet.  Similarly, the user
will have to issue a put grab fb.rep command in order to upload their
locally named fb.rep file to the magic filename grab, which BBBS needs to
know the file is in fact an uploaded reply packet."

So it looks like any name will be ok doesn't it?  with .rep as the
extension to indicate a reply packet ...at least that's what it looks like
to me..


Take care,
Janis

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