Subj : VB.Net - read Xtrn.dat
To   : Digital Man
From : Boondock
Date : Sun Feb 28 2021 01:49 pm

  Re: VB.Net - read Xtrn.dat
  By: Boondock to Digital Man on Sun Feb 28 2021 13:36:07

Sorry, I was a little abrupt in my first answer.
I'm sure you've noticed, I've updated the wiki with information on marious door drop files. I started out collecting information, figuring all the bits and pieces out, then wrote a subroutine to test my understanding of how it all works. I chose xtrn.dat as I thought it was native to Synchronet, and so I would do it first. 
I fully intend to do some of the others, yes first Door.sys, and maybe even PCBOARD.DAT (because it looks like more of a challenge).

As to the Javascript development.. I think it's great, but not something i'm interested it. I was very happy to see I could get a VB.Net compiled console app to run natively on both the windows and linux versions and that it handled the screen output with no problems (I'm still a bit puzzled why it displayed in Black and White on windows and in colour on Linux).

Being able to use a .Net app means I can use it to do a variety of things with the BBS taking care of the user management and connection etc. I can use Databases, for example, and various other things.

 

Boondock

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