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  • And we are cooking....

    From Joacim Melin@2:201/119 to All on Wednesday, December 20, 2017 20:00:00
    .. and 'lemme tell ya. It's a ride. I finally got Frontdoor working
    properly under Windows and now got two hubs I connect to
    for Fidonet and Usenet. Very nice success.

    But - to read all this goodieness I had to have some
    nice software. So, after some serious digging I finally
    got hold of the executables for a Swedish BBS system
    from the 90's, modestly named The Perfect Conference
    System (TPCS) written by two old friends of mine.

    Turns out TPCS wasn't ready for Y2K and even
    though the source code is still around my two friends
    had no means to actually compile it, nor the time to get
    all the old software to do so. So thanks to another
    friend, TPCS is now Y2K compatible since he simply
    patched the executables.

    Smart people are scary.

    Anyway - this is my second Fidonet node but my first
    Frontdoor node for at least 20 years and it's great to
    help my friend Joaquim in a very small way in his
    efforts to get the ball running again with Frontdoor development.

    /J

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    * Origin: New Detroit - newdetroit.se - Vallentuna, Sweden (2:201/119)
  • From Joaquim Homrighausen@2:20/4609 to Joacim Melin on Friday, December 29, 2017 20:29:16
    Anyway - this is my second Fidonet node but my first
    Frontdoor node for at least 20 years and it's great to
    help my friend Joaquim in a very small way in his
    efforts to get the ball running again with Frontdoor development.

    Glad to have you with us! :)


    -joho

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    * Origin: reboot.defsol.com (2:20/4609)
  • From Robert Wolfe@1:116/17 to JOAQUIM HOMRIGHAUSEN on Friday, December 29, 2017 18:15:00
    Joaquim Homrighausen wrote to Joacim Melin <=-

    Anyway - this is my second Fidonet node but my first
    Frontdoor node for at least 20 years and it's great to
    help my friend Joaquim in a very small way in his
    efforts to get the ball running again with Frontdoor development.

    Glad to have you with us! :)

    Just curious to see what kind of progress you've made so far :) I may find myself reinstalling FD/2mL since I lost my BBS VM recently do to a virus on
    my desktop.

    ... Got my tie caught in the fax... Suddenly I was in L.A.
    --- MultiMail/OS/2 v0.50
    * Origin: Omicron Theta * Olive Branch MS * (662) 408-4283 (1:116/17)
  • From Joacim Melin@2:201/120 to Robert Wolfe on Saturday, December 30, 2017 21:05:27
    Joaquim Homrighausen wrote to Joacim Melin <=-

    Anyway - this is my second Fidonet node but my first
    Frontdoor node for at least 20 years and it's great to
    help my friend Joaquim in a very small way in his
    efforts to get the ball running again with Frontdoor development.

    Glad to have you with us! :)

    Just curious to see what kind of progress you've made so far :) I
    may find
    myself reinstalling FD/2mL since I lost my BBS VM recently do to a
    virus on
    my desktop.

    I met with JoHo yesterday and as I understand it 1/3 of the code is ported to Linux but FreePascal is putting up a fight. Is that a reasonable summary, Joaquim?


    --- NiKom v2.3.1
    * Origin: Delta City (deltacity.se, Vallentuna, Sweden) (2:201/120.0)
  • From IB JOE@1:342/200 to Joacim Melin on Saturday, December 30, 2017 16:00:50
    On 12/30/17, Joacim Melin said the following...
    I met with JoHo yesterday and as I understand it 1/3 of the code is
    ported to Linux but FreePascal is putting up a fight. Is that a reasonable summary, Joaquim?


    Thanx for the update

    IB JOE
    AKA Joe Schweier
    SysOp of Joe's Computer & BBS
    Telnet: joesbbs.com

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A35 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Joe's Computer & BBS -=joesbbs.com=- (1:342/200)
  • From Joaquim Homrighausen@2:20/4609 to Robert Wolfe on Monday, January 01, 2018 18:20:36
    Just curious to see what kind of progress you've made so far :)

    Progress is being made, albeit a bit too slow for my own liking. But there is that silly thing called life that sometimes must be attended to.




    -joho

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    * Origin: FrontDoor | defsol.com | reboot.defsol.com | Sweden (2:20/4609)
  • From Joaquim Homrighausen@2:20/4609 to Joacim Melin on Monday, January 01, 2018 18:25:14

    I met with JoHo yesterday and as I understand it 1/3 of the code
    is ported to Linux but FreePascal is putting up a fight. Is that
    a reasonable summary, Joaquim?

    Sounds about right.

    The amount of code ported, however, does not reflect time.

    But, it shall be done.




    -joho

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    * Origin: reboot.defsol.com (2:20/4609)
  • From Robert Wolfe@1:116/17 to Joaquim Homrighausen on Monday, January 01, 2018 17:16:54

    Just curious to see what kind of progress you've made so far :)

    Progress is being made, albeit a bit too slow for my own liking. But there is ->that silly thing called life that sometimes must be attended to.

    So very, very true. My husband and I are moving into our new apartment this weekend, and we probably won't be fiinished with it all until Thursday when I can get some time off to remove things from the other apartment.



    ...Bugs come in through open Windows.
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    * Origin: Omicron Theta * Olive Branch MS * (662) 408-4283 (1:116/17)