still... I'm not planning on going anywhere from this hobby.. it's a
nice one in that you can pick it up and put it down and it still ticks along :)
Righto back to QWK tussles... all the best for 2024 if we don't catch up prior.
I'm on holiday for a few days and have a few spare hours to do some bbsing :) My wife is in town shopping and I have Black Moonlight blaring from the sound system... it's a new Duran Duran track I like...
I've started playing with Mystic to see if I can get it running as a QWK gateway but thus far no dice.. seems the FTP stuff is eluding me at present. I'll posts some updates to the Mystic echo to see if anyone else has played in this space.
My parents health has remained a concern this year. My mum is declining and dementia maintains it's cruel hold on her quality of life. Visiting a few times a year is getting tougher as you never know when it's the last goodbye.
I bought an EV and have been enjoying driving it. I like the tech in it and did the first update on the car yesterday... the sound system now works even better to that's a win...
As for bbsing... I plan to keep at the hobby and will try to dip in and out of the network a bit more often next year but it seems the intent can get offset by the day to day of life and demands of family... still... I'm not planning on going anywhere from this hobby.. it's a nice one in that you can pick it up and put it down and it still ticks along :)
A note of thanks for your involvement / usage of fsxNet in 2023, for your posts and chats in the echos... it's appreciated.
Righto back to QWK tussles... all the best for 2024 if we don't catch up prior.
still... I'm not planning on going anywhere from this hobby.. it's a
nice one in that you can pick it up and put it down and it still ticks along :)
Good luck with the QWK. It's a shame there's no separate software to
just run a hub for it.. (like HPT or something) I guess you're stuck
with running either synchronet or mystic - are there any others that support running a QWK hub?
Well here we are, coming up to the end of 2023 and a new year awaits.
I hope Christmas Day went smoothly for you whatever your circumstances.
I'm on holiday for a few days and have a few spare hours to do some
bbsing :) My wife is in town shopping and I have Black Moonlight blaring from the sound system... it's a new Duran Duran track I like...
I've started playing with Mystic to see if I can get it running as a QWK gateway but thus far no dice.. seems the FTP stuff is eluding me at present. I'll posts some updates to the Mystic echo to see if anyone
else has played in this space.
On 30 Dec 2023, apam said the following...
Good luck with the QWK. It's a shame there's no separate software to just run a hub for it.. (like HPT or something) I guess you're stuck with running either synchronet or mystic - are there any others that support running a QWK hub?
iirc QWK networking is (was before Mystic/maybe others implemented it) Synchronet-specific.
i don't think it's really very complicated.. just run the same scan for messages as a normal user, download the packet, import it into your BBS. i bet
you could write a utility to mod whatever might actually be different in a generic QWK packet from any old BBS.. so everyone could be a HUB.. the import
part is more special..
The tricky part is distribution, everyone expects an ftp server that can dynamically create a QWK file to download on request. In my mind it would have made more sense to use HTTP, then you could just have a php script or something create the qwk packet - but I don't know the history.
Re: Re: 2023 > 2024
By: apam to fusion on Sun Dec 31 2023 07:56 am
Howdy,
The tricky part is distribution, everyone expects an ftp server that can dynamically create a QWK file to download on request. In my mind it would have made more sense to use HTTP, then you could just have a php script or
something create the qwk packet - but I don't know the history.
Sync also supports getting it over http.
iirc QWK networking is (was before Mystic/maybe others implemented it)
maybe it was.. Wildcat? that had a QWK implementation also?
iirc QWK networking is (was before Mystic/maybe others implemented it) Synchronet-specific.
maybe it was.. Wildcat? that had a QWK implementation also?
i don't think it's really very complicated.. just run the same scan
for
messages as a normal user, download the packet, import it into your
BBS. i bet
you could write a utility to mod whatever might actually be different
in a
generic QWK packet from any old BBS.. so everyone could be a HUB.. the import
part is more special..
On 30 Dec 2023, apam said the following...The tricky part is distribution, everyone expects an ftp server that
can dynamically create a QWK file to download on request. In my mind
it would have made more sense to use HTTP, then you could just have a
php script or something create the qwk packet - but I don't know the history.
I've started playing with Mystic to see if I can get it running as a QWK gateway but thus far no dice.. seems the FTP stuff is eluding me at present. I'll posts some updates to the Mystic echo to see if anyone else has played this space.
I've thought about adding it to clrghouz - and if I did, it would only
be over http. If there was a demand, I'd make time to do it - but if
folks can only do it over ftp, then I'm unlikely to.
As for scripts, you can easily write scripts that use ftp also. I have scripts that cron runs that call ncftp to move packets from my DOS BBS back/forth with a synchronet hub.
On 30 Dec 2023, apam said the following...The tricky part is distribution, everyone expects an ftp server that
can dynamically create a QWK file to download on request. In my mind
it would have made more sense to use HTTP, then you could just have a
php script or something create the qwk packet - but I don't know the history.
The history goes back to dial-up days when you had to dial in and have
the dialing software run a script to exchange packets with the hub. Some BBSes may have had a more automated way of doing that, but it predates
the internet.
mystic can use qwkpoll to import qwk packets that were previously wget-ed. so you're not stuck with qwkpoll doing ftp internally.. it just wouldn't be as automagic .. i think mystic by default will do "qwkpoll all" which would do nothing for a default config, but just automatically work if you add a qwk hub in mystic -cfg.. whereas you'd have to replace that event with a script to wget the packet, import it, check it was imported correctly.. have the script pass along the exitstatus so mystic is happy.. not as clean but certainly not venturing into hackish territory.
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