Hello Roger!

Oct 10 02:58 03, Roger Scudder wrote to Bo Simonsen:

 >> Doesn't it support templates yet? ;)

 RS>  Dude, it doesn't even support all of the addressing it should yet.  
 RS> Inherent functionality comes first, then the extra doo-dads.  ;-)

Hehe :-) But you can say one Iteration is done (if we're talking XP :))

 >>  RS>  Ah yes, our friends, the Russians (a.k.a. the other side, if your 
 >>  RS> in to old American spy stories) have taken Fidonet as their own, 
 >>  RS> and done it proud.  I sure am glad those fellows made binkd.

 >> Yes, for 10 years it was the cold dark russia, it's not yet anymore, 
 >> I've started 
 >> learned Russian in RUSSIAN_TUTOR :-)

 RS>  Are there many Russian speaking people where you live?

No, but I think it's a exciting langauge, and there are lots of Russians
here in Fidonet.

 >>  RS> best take it seriously, along with FTC-0039).  The problem with 
 >>  RS> .MSG, as I am sure you know, is that it is not an efficient way to 
 >>  RS> manage a large number of messages.

 >> That's right, with different echos, it's not a good idea, if you use 
 >> Reiserfs it's okay, else it's not...

 RS>  Oh, really?  I haven't  messed with Fido software on Linux yet, but 
 RS> I will soon.  :-)

Well Reiserfs is a Journalizing Filesystem which is very good for small files.

 >> Actually I like Squish, there are good tools for repairing.

 RS>  Has Squish been distributed with Linux or ported?

Wesley Garland did port the Maximus BBS system, including Squish to Linux.
I did do some further development on Squish to correct errors, which came
under the porting (or is different from Linux). 

And I'm running Squish, it's damn good :-)

 >>  RS> If I ever do decide to make it available to the public I will not
 >>  RS> charge a dime for it.  That is why I intend to use wxWindows... it 
 >>  RS> is free on both platforms I want to target.

 >> Okay, that's cool... BTW it's not time anymore for selling fidonet 
 >> software.. 
 >> Wildcat! and so on, is getting to a minority.

 RS>  Oh, yeah, I know...  Fido is mostly for us hard-code folks these 
 RS> days.

The most programmers in Fidonet, is Open Source programmers, but in some
way the Fidonet spirit is in that way.

 >>  RS> I would probably want to get one or two other
 >>  RS> programmers involved so as to speed up the process (thoughts of 
 >>  RS> The Mythical Man Month dance merrily though the caverns of my 
 >>  RS> memories).

 >> Huh?

 RS>  Oh, The Mythical Man Month is a book.  Never mind that other crap I 
 RS> wrote.

LOL!

 >> Okay! I love 'gdb' :-)

 RS>  Me too.

:-)

 >> In someway I like Borland C++ too, maybe because I'm forced to use it 
 >> (They are 
 >> only having that at my school).

 RS>  Yeah, I can relate...  it's the only one they have at my retirement 
 RS> home.  ;-)

LOL :-)

Regards,
Bo

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