Subj : RE:Testing
To   : deon
From : slacker
Date : Tue Nov 12 2024 07:55 pm


> What are you making?I started writing my own BBS server earlier this year. It supports both color ANSI as well as 8-bit Atari ATASCII. There is local mail and a local message board but I've never connected to other systems before joining fsxnet. The packet creator/tosser is what I wrote that takes the message board posts written on my board and converts them to a ftn packet to go out binkd. It also parses the incoming packets pulled from binkd. Figuring out the packet stuff was a bit of learning curve. I'm writing the whole thing in Perl and the existing FTN::Packet modules don't create packets that pass the Clearing Houz's view packet so I sort of had to reverse engineer what was right/wrong with the output. I THINK I finally have it all squared away now. We'll see if this posts. :)
--- NE BBS v0.68-SNAPSHOT (linux; x64)
 * Origin: NE BBS  (21:3/193)

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