Hello Bj”rn,

08 Mar 22 08:40, you wrote to me:

Ah yes, thanks for reminding me. When I still had a lousy ADSL connection to internet, I had too Disallow my SWAG mirror in my
robots.txt file because all the search robots took up so much upload speed, when crawling over all the PAS files over and over again, that
it was quite noticeable. Now, many years later, with 100/100Mb fibre
it's high time open it up again.

Please do. I have the last unmodified archive from Jim McKeeth on my mirror if you need it.

You were a major influence on me when I first started Cheepware. I learned a lot from your code and SWAG.

-- Sean

... Interchangeable devices won't.
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Please do. I have the last unmodified archive from Jim McKeeth on my mirror if you need it.

Well, I have a version from 2004, and it says:

This is an HTML version of the last SWAG release from 11/29/1997.
No new content has been added. At this point it is static, but at
some future point it may be reborn in some new form.

... So I think I have the latest version. :)

You were a major influence on me when I first started Cheepware. I learned a lot from your code and SWAG.

Thank you. I've always enjoyed sharing what I know. After having worked with programming since 1969 (ALGOL, Fortran, Forth, COBOL, Pascal, C, OPL, assembler, and some more that I've forgotten about...), it was a no-brainer to help people in the PASCAL echo (R.I.P.)





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Hello Björn,

09 Mar 22 13:15, you wrote to me:

... So I think I have the latest version. :)

The cutting-edge version. :D

Thank you. I've always enjoyed sharing what I know. After having
worked with programming since 1969 (ALGOL, Fortran, Forth, COBOL,
Pascal, C, OPL, assembler, and some more that I've forgotten
about...), it was a no-brainer to help people in the PASCAL echo
(R.I.P.)

I am currently working on porting my DOS doors to Linux, Win32, OS/2, WINServer-native, and of course, DOS. I'm rewriting Rick Parrish's Manndoor and forking it into my own doorkit (with his blessing). I just have been so busy with everything I haven't had a chance to sit down and work on it. I am currently putting in all of my own code into Manndoor and reworking a few things to my liking.

Manndoor also works under FreeBSD, I discovered, so I can add that to the list.

I can do Win64 doors using FreePascal but as Rob Swindell told me, "Why?". <G>

-- Sean

... RAM disk is NOT an installation procedure!
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I am currently working on porting my DOS doors to Linux, Win32, OS/2, WINServer-native, and of course, DOS. I'm rewriting Rick Parrish's Manndoor
and forking it into my own doorkit (with his blessing). I just have
been so
busy with everything I haven't had a chance to sit down and work on it.
I am
currently putting in all of my own code into Manndoor and reworking a few things to my liking.

Manndoor also works under FreeBSD, I discovered, so I can add that to the list.

I can do Win64 doors using FreePascal but as Rob Swindell told me,
"Why?". <G>

May I add WOW! ?

That sounds like a heavy undertaking, are you sure it's worthwhile?

If I was me, the man I was 40 years ago, I'd go for a GUI for binkd. That would really be the Argus of the 2020s. Just a log file GUI analyser would be almost revolutionary. <hint>




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Björn Felten wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

That sounds like a heavy undertaking, are you sure it's worthwhile?

It's not as hard as it seems. Maarten Berkers (I hope I have his name
right), the author of EleBBS, took all of his FOSSIL/serial code and
released it as EleCOM. A LOT of people took that foundation and built on
it.

What I am basically doing is porting over a lot of routines I wrote that
will extend Manndoor. I am also rewriting a few things in Manndoor and
there are parts of Manndoor that were never finished that I will try to work on.

I will be hosting it on my Sourceforge repo so anyone can take a look.

I have released my door code under the BSD license so anyone can take it
and port it to whatever they want.

If I was me, the man I was 40 years ago, I'd go for a GUI for binkd. That would really be the Argus of the 2020s. Just a log file GUI
analyser would be almost revolutionary. <hint>

That's actually an excellent idea.

I could write something like that for MBSE using Lazarus but I think we're deciding on using SQLite for storage so that will make things orders of magnitude easier to work with since FreePascal has a very nice SQLite unit.

-- Sean

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