• BBS Software projects

    From Steven Sheeley@1:275/97 to All on Sunday, October 09, 2016 21:10:08

    Hello everybody!

    Just wanted to drop in and let everyone know that I've started work on a couple of BBS related software projects. If anyone's interested, that is.
    [grin]

    The first one is called Wycker as in "All In One Basket (A Wicker Basket)", pretty kewl name, eh? [grin] Anyways, it is designed to replace ABLOG
    software that, much like most everything else these days, became abandonware. ABLOG, for those who don't know, is a Win32 commandline program to
    parse the Argus FTN Mailer logs and create Daily, Weekly and Monthly stats. While it works, it's to limited, in my not so humble opinion. Wycker will
    do the same thing for Argus/Radius/Taurus/Watergate logs but with a little more. Here is its functionalities:

    1) Parse Argus/Radius/Taurus/Trapgate logs.
    2) Create bulletins for posting to local message bases or echomail.
    3) Archive those logs to preserve disk space in a date/time hierarchical format.
    4) Display Mailer stats on the Wycker Console.
    5) Parse Allfix logs.
    6) Create bulletins for posting to local message bases or echomail.
    7) Archive those logs to preserve disk space in a date/time hierarchical format.
    8) Display Allfix stats on the Wycker Console.
    9) Parse Synchronet BBS logs.
    10) Create bulletins for posting to local message bases or echomail.
    11) Archive those logs to preserve disk space in a date/time hierarchical format.
    12) Display Synchronet BBS stats on the Wycker Console.

    Those are the specs to start. If there are other logs that would be beneficial to Parse, Generate and Archive, if I am provided a sample of those logs I will gladly add them to Wycker. Wycker is written in Pascal and is a Win32 Console app and will be designed to run continously to display the
    stats and to archive logs at a predetermined time.

    The second one is a fork of Taurus (Or Trapgate, depending on the viability of the codebase) called Northwind. Northwind is a fork of one of the
    two listed and the first release will be just a rebrand of whatever codebase I pick. Going forwrad we'll add new functionality and operations to it
    as needed. Northwind is a Win32 console program, just as Argus/Radius/Taurus/Trapgate is now.

    Please feel free to join my BBS Split Infnity (infinity.synchro.net), which is where support and discussions will take place.


    Steven


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  • From Flavio Bessa@4:801/189.1 to Steven Sheeley on Tuesday, October 11, 2016 10:01:42
    Hello Steven.

    09 Oct 16 21:10, you wrote to all:

    The first one is called Wycker as in "All In One Basket (A Wicker Basket)", pretty kewl name, eh? [grin] Anyways, it is designed to
    replace ABLOG software that, much like most everything else these
    days, became abandonware. ABLOG, for those who don't know, is a Win32 commandline program to parse the Argus FTN Mailer logs and create
    Daily, Weekly and Monthly stats. While it works, it's to limited, in
    my not so humble opinion. Wycker will do the same thing for Argus/Radius/Taurus/Watergate logs but with a little more. Here is
    its functionalities:

    Cool! I will definetely pay you a visit. :)

    Flavio

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