Hello, Maurice Kinal.
On 10/31/20 11:56 AM you wrote:

 MK> Hey Carol!
 CS>> it would be interesting to see what some of your coding looks 
 CS>> like on their end!
 MK> All I did was to port binkd to Android by using a native clang 
 MK> that is part of a bash enviroment for Android.  That way I could 
 MK> just port my fidonet bash scripts to there with some slight 
 MK> modifications.  All in all it looks and behaves like a normal 
 MK> ncurses based terminal program just like mom used to make.  Also I 
 MK> used vim for Android as the editor but I imagine others could be 
 MK> ported.  I did try to port micro emacs using clang without success 
 MK> but if needed I could try again.  I forget the exact issue it was 
 MK> having. Bottomline is that no special gateway is/was needed given 
 MK> that binkd for Android works just fine.

It does. And there are a couple of point programs for Android that work, but
have some issues.
But not everyone has the scripting/coding ability to make their own.
Telegram isn't Android specific, nor would I honestly recommend it as a primary
method for communicating on Fido.
It's meant to be a quick, convenient way to connect with Fidonet while you're
away from your primary method.
Perhaps also, a way to introduce people to Fidonet that might not know about
it, in a way that is more familiar to them, a group messaging program.
It won't be something everyone would want to use. I don't think that it's meant
to be.

 CS>> I know little more about it as of yet.
 MK> I've seen a few tests here and there.  More or less looks to be 
 MK> working from what I see here.  Personally I would just stick with 
 MK> normal operating procedures. Life is good, Maurice ... Don't cry 
 MK> for me I have vi. --- GNU bash, version 5.0.18(1)-release 
 MK> BC, Canada (1:153/7001.2989)

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