Subj : FD & BinkD
To   : Joe Schweier
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat Oct 06 2018 02:18 pm


 On 2018 Oct 01 18:09:22, you wrote to me:

 JS> I'm trying to figure out what version of BinkD... there must be 7 or 8
 JS> different versions for windows alone... Pearl...

that's easy enough... take the one with the highest version number and the
additional listed features that you might need for your specific OS...

 JS> Anyway, would be nice if JoHo made some small changes to FD so that it
 JS> would dove tail into Bink a little better.  Kinda like what D'Bridge
 JS> does... A 16bit Mailer that has code added into it.  I know it might be
 JS> more than that.... But it can't be that bad

it is a lot more than that... for one thing, having the old build environment
available and running on today's machines... that's a huge hurdle... using a
different compiler isn't an easy task, either... especially when you have
Pascal, C and ASM code to build and link and we've not even touched on being
able to use any external or 3rd party libraries...

in short, it just won't happen without a new FrontDoor which will likely be
32bit or 64bit... in this day, i would expect 64bit before any other...

i never got as far as Tommi did and set up FD's fileboxes in the STQ... i used
matts' tool to move the mail and files from the STQ to the individual fileboxes
 i had set up in my binkd configuration... i left my Allfix and Fastecho
configured as they were so as far as they were concerned, everything was done
in FD's inbound and outbound directories and they had no clue that binkd was
even on the system... handling FREQs was another matter, though... especially
those that came in via binkd... it was a huge monstrous kludge and that's a
word i don't use lightly...

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it
wrong...
.... 'Like putty in your hands' takes on a new and depressing meaning.
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