Subj : Create message bases
To   : andrew clarke
From : Vincent Coen
Date : Thu Apr 08 2021 02:37 pm

Hello andrew!

Thursday April 08 2021 19:06, you wrote to Sean Dennis:

 > On 2021-04-07 00:03:02, Sean Dennis (1:18/200) wrote to Kai Richter:

 SD>> The author, David Nugent (who also wrote the BNU FOSSIL driver, I
 SD>> believe), was pissed that so many people used his program and
 SD>> never registered it.  I have seen the original message where he
 SD>> told people off and then said he was leaving the BBS scene
 SD>> forever.

 > PKT inspection was always an extremely niche feature, though. The
 > number of sysops who actually needed specialised software to look at
 > PKTs on a regular basis would've only been in the hundreds at best. So
 > his target audience was always going to be pretty small from the
 > start, and it's telling that (to my knowledge) nobody's written a
 > similar program just to do that one thing, without the file manager
 > part. There just wasn't the demand for it.

 > I'm not sure InspectA had much else going for it. As a file manager it
 > was a bit mediocre. I suspect that was the main reason more people
 > didn't pay for it.

There is another tool that may well do similar - pktview that I obtained from
the Husky project and this own also works under Linux.

It will display the content of a packet that may have one or more messages.

It is in husty-master/misc.  Cannot currently find the source code for it but
it is here some where as I recompiled it for Linux as x64.


Vincent


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