MooseChat & alt.moose (was Maximus for Linux?)

[Stephen Hart]

adventure, or something, and have only done enough RTFM to keep my
specific Linux applications running. So, I'm not really taking
advantage of all the Linux customization options.

C> Well, strangely enough, I pulled my old pointnode configuration off CD

Ah, yes! The good old "Pete and Clyde's Point Node Kit". Even tho I
immediately switched from BinkleyTerm to FrontDoor (and eventually to
InterMail) just as soon as Peter Zion closed down his FidoNet
node/BBS, I found your point kit was a great introduction to setting
up a FidoNet node. As well, I still use GoldEd as my personal message
editor.

As I wax nostalgic, I'll mention that GoldEd was one of the few
shareware programs that I got around to registering. Meanwhile, your
point node kit was the only application that I ever "beta tested".

C> this afternoon, just to see how easy it would be. DOSEMU doesn't like
C> protected mode apps, so I had to pull the latest beta of golded+ off
the
C> net, but I've got it pretty well configured in both DOS and Linux. Next
of

Coolness! ;-)

C> If I was serious about either dithering with a Fido point or full node,
C> could I get:

C> a) a pvt node
C> b) binkd access?

I'm assuming that Joe and you are now in touch? Far as I know, that
route should now be relatively painless -- on both the technical side
and the administrative side.


C> As for the rest, we'll deal with that as it comes.

"The rest" being MooseChat or alt.moose participation, eh?

If you'll actually have time to participate in MooseChat, that might
inspire me to start laying the groundwork for "gating" over to
alt.moose. It sounds like you might get access through FidoNet, but
maybe gating MooseChat to alt.moose is something worth doing out of
sheer perversity? ...Er, maybe I should say "worth doing for the
fun of it" since some people confuse being "perverse" with being
"perverted". Gotta watch out for that sorta misunderstanding, right?


BCNU, ...Steve

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Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him instead.

[clyde]

I found your point kit was a great introduction to setting up a FidoNet
node. As well, I still use GoldEd as my personal message editor.

Thanks. I enjoyed coding it. P&C's windowing functions was actually an
offshoot of my commercial programming activities; as I developed the
interactive editor, I folded back the codebase into the CPU libraries.

As I wax nostalgic, I'll mention that GoldEd was one of the few
shareware programs that I got around to registering. Meanwhile, your
point node kit was the only application that I ever "beta tested".

I've actually been thinking of releasing the code for my Squish utilities
under GPL, including KillrKitten and Squash! With the work that Wes Garland
has been doing with Maximus for Linux, I think I can safely use the new
Squish SDK to port my utilities to a multitude of operating systems.

I'm assuming that Joe and you are now in touch? Far as I know, that
route should now be relatively painless -- on both the technical side
and the administrative side.

It was fairly straight forward to set up binkd, Squish, and GoldEd. I also
notice that an old DOS Squish bug is alive and well in the poll routines,
after I dumped the contents of ~/usedc/ into Joe's inbound.

maybe gating MooseChat to alt.moose is something worth doing out of
sheer perversity?

Gronk, baby, gronk.

[tony summerfelt]

Post by clyde
I've actually been thinking of releasing the code for my Squish utilities
under GPL, including KillrKitten and Squash! With the work that Wes Garland
has been doing with Maximus for Linux, I think I can safely use the new
Squish SDK to port my utilities to a multitude of operating systems.

correct me if i'm wrong, but didn't you also write a utiltity for the
net249
crp? it was you or ian silver i think...

anyway, bill (cassidy) authorized me to release the billzo source a
few years ago...i made the y2k adjustments to the code, and released
all the source. there were one (or two) utilities in the package that
i didn't have the source for...

moot now, i don't think anybody in fido actually maintains a crp
anymore...

aamof, there are still 20 or 30 people in kingston who were in net249
that have money owing them. my last round of questions regarding this
(in '98 or something) met with a rounding show of apathy.

it's entirely possible the money is lost, i'm not sure what cibc does
with derelict accounts...