From: jerryg@ssd.intel.com (Jerry Gaiser) Subject: Re: Splitting comp.os.linux Date: 23 Oct 1992 22:38:57 GMT
In article <BwLGMn.HK6@news.udel.edu> radel@bach.udel.edu (Todd Radel) writes:
>In article <1992Oct23.170824.11143@SSD.intel.com> jerryg@ssd.intel.com (Jerry Gaiser) writes:
>>In article <id.C4BU.P71@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
>>>One thing that I must be missing here... why would people reading comp.os.linux
>>>be running waffle in the first place? If you've got Linux, why mess with DOS?
>>
>>How about, because I'm a FidoNet sysop (Oh no! Runaway! Runaway) and
>>Fidonet technology hasn't been ported to Linux yet?
>
>Actually, it has. Several people (including myself) are beta-testing
>BinkleyTerm for Unix version 3.02.3 right now. (The code still needs
>some tweaking, but I'm working on a few fixes...)
>
>I was able to compile a nodelist and poll my net host tonight. I
>don't have fpack/funpack (a Fido-to-Usenet unpacker) yet though, so
>I can't toss any .PKT files.
Ooh! Ooh! ;-)
Sounds good. When can the rest of us try the code? As anybody looked at
the RFMAIL code. I just picked up a older tar file of it and thought
I'd give it a look.
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