Subj : Re: JavaScript Nodelist Browser/Search
To   : Mro
From : Psi-Jack
Date : Tue Oct 07 2014 11:22 am

 >   Re: Re: JavaScript Nodelist Browser/Search
 >   By: Psi-Jack to Bill McGarrity on Mon Oct 06 2014 03:31 pm
 > 
 >  > Hmmm.. A program, unregistered, etc? This doesn't sound like JavaScript
 >  > at all, more like a door, which is not what I'm asking for at all. :)
 > 
 >  > I'm actually asking for a JavaScript, so that I could tie it in with my
 >  > existing system that, during sending netmail to an obvious FTN style
 >  > address, it can do a lookup and provide a summary.
 > 
 > 
 > do you actually have that much of a need for such a thing?

Yes, actually. I wouldn't even ask if I didn't. This is actually a standard,
and VERY nice feature of Mystic BBS that is so neglected in BBS software,
IMHO. Always has been, except to a select few BBS software. 

 > anyways, you could rig a script to wget the file, extract it and then
 > grep+display text that the user requests.
 > 
 > i suggest you rig your bbs to run the door bill suggested, seems like less
 > hassle that way and seems to do what you want.
 > 
 > also on the facebook fidonet group a guy posted a url to site that searches
 > nodelists for text strings. you could always rig up something to scrape
 > that.
 > 
 > i've been running bbses since 1992-93 and only had a few people ever send
 > netmails, aside from myself.


Bleh.. I found some JavaScript code that can parse a nodelist file, it's just
using node.js, so requires some porting to get it native to Synchronet.

If nobody here is interested and more capable than I, I'll take on the project
myself and do it. 

That project is here:
https://github.com/Mithgol/node-fidonet-nodelist

Looks cool, possible, just needs a good chunk of porting, but if done, only
needs to be done once, then it can be used quite a lot in different ways since
it provides the data in a usable object format.
 
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