Subj : NEWS::: DogBone
To   : August Abolins
From : Martin Foster
Date : Fri Jun 25 2021 09:15 am

Hello August!

*** Monday 21.06.21 at 19:53, August Abolins wrote to All:

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 AA> A comment from the FUTURE4FIDO Roving Reporter:
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 AA> Additional info from John:

 AA> "..send a netmail to dogbone@4:920/1. Subject doesn't matter.
 AA> In the body just include /INFO on a line by itself and it will
 AA> send you a help message back. Part of the test is to see if
 AA> that is self-explanatory enough.

I've had a leetle play with this by starting out with sending a /INFO  
request. Got a response back very quickly, which is very much like what  
one would get back from an AreaFix %HELP request. OK, so that worked quite  
nicely :)

I then followed that up with a /QUERY request and, once again, I got a  
very quick response back, with a list of registered Nodes/Points. In  
addition, the response contained a list of all Nodes in Net310, which I  
wasn't expecting. OK, so that worked quite nicely also :)

I realise that all this is in the very early stages of development but  
given the right exposure and the willingness of SysOps to embrace it, it  
could turn out to be a very interesting, useful and powerful "tool".

Regards,
Martin

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