Subj : Re: Fido
To   : Phoobar
From : Atreyu
Date : Mon Apr 06 2020 11:36 pm

On 06 Apr 20  20:18:41, Phoobar said the following to Atreyu:

P>  At> A network of D'Bridge-specific systems can do this.
P> 
P> Been looking at it myself after Nick announced the new edition. I take it yo
P> use it with Renegade? How does it work for you? Anything I need to watch ou

I'm Nick... been running both since '94. I obtained the D'Bridge source code 
sometime in '04... 05 I think. I think Renegade was open-source at that time.

The Renegade source code I work with is the Y2KA2 version. I stopped following
any of the newer stuff beyond that since the new author took the direction 
in a way I wasn't happy with. I decided to fly solo and fix everything myself.

Anyhow D'Bridge has a command-line utility to report/remove dead areas.
Passthrough areas with only one link left can be automatically un-Areafixed.
I believe the two-way Areafixing system is compatible with Fastecho and
HPT... maybe more since the whole point of Areafix was to automate area
management.

I wrote a custom program to "mirror" the D'Bridge area database to Renegade so
I no longer need to manually add/remove areas.

At this time there is only *.MSG and Hudson/Goldbase support. With the country
going on the proverbial "tilt" over the virus I may just add JAM and Squish.

Atreyu

--- Renegade vY2Ka2
 * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)

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