Subj : FastLst 2.02
To   : Bob Jones
From : Mike Luther
Date : Sat Jul 21 2001 05:43 pm

Bob ..

 BJ> I've been using QNode.  I'm looking for something that 
 BJ> will allow me to compile newer options, such as IP and 
 BJ> DNS information into the compiled nodelist, so that I 
 BJ> can have binkley "dial out" on VModem ports in 
 BJ> addition to handling POTS traffic.

Likewise.

 BJ> Any comments or ideas?

Yes.

On the list of some-day-over-the-rainbow, is a utility that could take the ASCI 
version of the NodeLists and simply parse it looking for the magic byte 
patterns.  When it came to that .. I'd simply plug it the way needed for Qnode 
etc...

If I recall this all right when I was thinking about it, I either had to prang 
the NodeList to make it work with Ray's SIO easily, or, I had to convice Ray 
that he should modify VMODEM to accept a "-" mark as a "." mark,or, I had to 
somehow get the FTSC to let us modify the NodeList formula so that we could 
carry the "." mark directly in the thing for the purpose.

Of course if that got done, then what would it break as to the NodeList 
compilers out there.

I was playing with BBBS as well here when I was putting up TELNET for test 
purposes on 1:117/3001.  It has its own NodeList compiler tool.  To drive it 
you use an ASCI text file as well, per my memory.  When I was playing with it, 
I simply went in and hand edited the NodeList with a file editor.  Then I let 
it compile it.

I found out that some NodeList compilers keep a CRC checksum on the final 
source for the thing and what it produces.  They would tell me that there was a 
CRC error in the NodeList when I hand edited it!  But it never seemed to make 
any difference and ran anyway both in BINK/MAX and BBBS here.  So I wound up 
thinking how to patch this or that...

By the way.  In setting up this whole affair on Windows 9x and 2K or ME, I 
fergit now .. I wound up using COMIP for the TELNET shim.  It can, if my memory 
is correct, handle the "-" convention as a dialing convention for the TELNET 
work!

Thus, I think the nicest solution would be if Ray would cooperate.  To thata 
extent, I wrote him an Email suggesting it.  Never heard back.  However,there 
was a period of time there when I think he was sulking over IBM's treatment of 
him (like others?).  I paid for a couple more instances of SIO for other sites. 
 It took a while to get them.  Then, shortly after than,suddenly he began 
working on SIO's next version again.

It may be he will think about this now...

Your thoughts?

--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike @ 1:117/3001




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