From: nickb@... (Nick Bensema) Date: 2001-02-24T02:10:56+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:11392] Re: Telnet/SSH service In article <20010221215412.58836.qmail@web10514.mail.yahoo.com>, John van V. wrote: >I cant help jumping in. > >BBS messaging doesnt necessarily have to have all the telnet bells and >whistles, especially the PTY stuff. Getting other stuff to work from NT to a >pty server is very difficult. > >Jabber solves the problem by converting all the message phrasing into XML, >probably the best use for that I have seen yet. I see several problems with this solution: (1) I don't know XML. (2) I don't know what Jabber is. (3) I don't even have NT; I was using Windows 98, though I'd prefer a platform-independent solution. XML may fit that qualification, but see (1). >I have been building these tools for metrical and operational communication for >years. I designed my tools for regular personal communication but jabber seems >to have this sewn up. XML lends naturally lends it self to formated printing, >but probably kills databases and performance must be mud. That sequence of words you just said somehow tells my brain that the tools you describe might just be good for the job, except remember that all I'm trying to do is create a program that looks like a 1980's BBS system that some 16-year-old might have programmed for MS-DOS. We're talking unthreaded message boards, a small text file archive, line editors where you save by typing "/s" on a single line, that sort of thing. -- Nick Bensema ICQ#2135445 ==== ======= ============== BOY, THIS IS REALLY EXPENSIVE!