Hey Nancy!

This is very interesting and I've learned more from this message of yours
than reading all the so-called documentation of offline formats. Go figure
eh?


This turns out to be better;

 MK> www.thesun.co.uk/.../Vote-to-say-whether-you-think-going
 MK> -topless-on-the-beach-is-ok-or-not.html - Similar

than this;

 MK>
 www.thesun.co.uk/.../Vote-to-say-whether-you-think-going-topless-on-the
 MK> -beach-i s-ok-or-not.html

However I am not sure if allowing whatever the BBS thinks should happen
with splitting long lines and me preformatting will really make a
difference.  How about these next lines?

www.thesun.co.uk/.../Vote-to-say-whether-you-think-going
-topless-on-the-beach-is-ok-or-not.html

Offhand I doubt that will make any difference but we'll see for ourselves.
I am betting your offline dealie will put a space between 'going' and
'-topless' but maybe not.

> Apparently my editor looked for a hyphen to break it...  ;)

We'll see but I have doubts.

> I haven't a clue how web apps work, as I'm not usually using
> them.  :)

Excellent plan methinks.  Obviously another dimension of compatibilty eh? :-)

> The Bluewave reader makes all lines fit onto the one screen,

Please define a screen, especially width character-wise.

> obviously has some sort of built-in wrap.

Probably a fixed width.

> MicroEMACS (for DOS).  It has a wrap you can set and implement
> as desired...  so that is being used as I type... :)

Very interesting.  I wonder how close it resembles the Linux version.
Personally I prefer vi but am receptive to a pared down version of emacs.
The full meal deal is far too bloated for it's own good methinks. Mind you
I could say the same about vi clones such as vim which is what I am using
to type this particular message.

No official offline thingy yet as it is virtually impossible to find a
suitable internetted BBS that can handle the usual tcpip networking apps.
Janis' BBS is the closest I can find that has a shot at making this work
but at the moment I can't figure out how to get it to create other offline
packets other than text, which is okay with me.  However I am currently
using both telnet, ftp and http to pull it off.  I need a telnet connection
for setting user based configurations and message markers, then ftp to
fetch the offline packet, and http for posting the reply. I tried telnet
for replies but noticed some weirdness there and didn't save it since I was
unsure that the final result would be as it should be. If I knew for sure
what the uploaded message(s) format and expected filename was then ftp
could potentially do it all except the user based configurations part.  The
messaging markers seem to be 100% on their own but I like the idea of being
able to reset them whenever there might be a need.  Possible a perl based
telnet thingy might resolve that but I am keeping that idea in reserve for
now.

As is this seems to work but it isn't user friendly to say the least.
However it does have the best shot near as I can tell from my
investigations of internetted BBS's.

Life is good,
Maurice

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