Text 5818, 97 rader
Skriven 2006-04-22 16:14:26 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
   Kommentar till text 5815 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
Ärende: new guy in Linux
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Hey James!

Apr 22 08:34 06, James Bradley wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 JB> I have no experience with that.

I had expereince with it before public access so going to dialup was a big
disappointment for me.  I was spoiled rotten.  Thing is that the library at
that time ran a BBS on vax/vms on an internal fibre optic network and it was
the first BBS I ever saw.  After that I started seeing them on dialup lines,
Fido and otherwise.  I even supported a few of those and used a 2400 baud modem
to connect, prepublic access internet days.  I thought the hydra protocol had
potential.  Didn't care much for the rest other then display (ansi or straight
text).  I even wrote some utilities, such as an online database and statistical
analysis door that users would use for generating lotto numbers with.  Stinkin'
users.  ;-)

I had bigger plans for all that but the internet, especially the www, pretty
well much killed the idea other then me doing it locally no matter what the
connection.  Right now I want to see what damage I can do with gfortran.

 JB> I've heard people complain about it 
 JB> before, but
 JB> couldn't fathom why they were so frustrated with zmodem.

It was okay but hydra was better.

 MK>> about the phoney-baloney tcpip stuff in Win98?

 JB> I know nothing about that, except that I used it. It is a poor 
 JB> product then?

I think so.  Was always poor perfomance compared to unix no matter what
connection as well as what it was connected with.

 JB> *real* boon for me, I will go to great lengths to assist him at every 
 JB> turn, and
 JB> never, EVER call him a fool for doing it.

Understood.  I used to do that.

 JB> Besides, he seems just as 
 JB> quirky as
 JB> you and me, and if birds of a feather...

Bonus!  :-)

 JB> Well, there's a fix for the BW reader, to QWK door for a date issue, 
 JB> and I read
 JB> about a BW user's, husband writing a fix into a disassembled copy of 
 JB> BW, to
 JB> sidestep the that external batch file. Then there's the great work of 
 JB> this
 JB> Multi Mail. I haven't seen anything "broken" on it.

I like mutilmail but lack the utilities to convert to what it wants.  I thought
about writing some but didn't bother after reading the specs.

 JB> It's a little "back to the future" if you ask me. Where the nerds at
 JB> universities used to call each other via acoustic couplers, today the 
 JB> only
 JB> alive OLMR is written in *NIX if I'm not mistaken, and ported to DOS. 

Something like that.

 JB> Dejavu,
 JB> all over again?

We'll see.

 JB> Nice to know I'm in good company. Shoot, over seas, it likely has 
 JB> quite a few
 JB> years left at *least*.

Give it time.  The Russians have caught onto using Outlook Express to spam
everybody and the Chinese have been catching onto crackbots although they are
poorly written, which makes me really wonder how secure their servers are.

 JB> Ya, I'm just about off to an auction for some pneumatics, and air 
 JB> tools.
 JB> ...Want-a come?

Probably.  Next week would have been better.

 MK>> if I can get rid of the squish based tosser.  I
 MK>> have a preliminary script worked out but want to
 MK>> port it to c ... eventually.

 JB> Ah... Nice idea!

If only for myself which more then likely it will be.

Life is good,
Maurice

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