On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:25:29 +0200, Jonathan Dent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think Sourceforge is THE way to go as it may attract other prior QL users that have no clue about this list or the current state of affairs in the QL world.
Sounds great I look forward to trying it.
I've been giving some thougt to a WMAN
front end. I've been strugling with CPTR though. It won't work on my uQLx
setup and although I've followed J. M.Sadlers excelent article in QL Today
Vol.7 Iss.6 I'm not sure how to continue.
But perhapps I should be looking into adding an authentication to PPP first?
I'd also like to do somthing about releasing the sources. I think CVS is a
good idea to help coordinate development but I not sure about
SourceForge. Any Ideas?
By the way Phoebus did you manage to evaluate tht serial to ethernet converter you talked about some time ago on the list?
Happy QLing Jon.
As for the Serial-To-Ethernet, as I said it worked fine. However that was an expensive piece of h/w and I was now looking at a cheap design based on the CS Ethernet chip (about $40). That could also benefit of the PPP for the PPPoE portion of DSL connections.
I am also looking into Tarquin's HB C port although because of Curses it restricts me a lot in things I want to do. The parser also needs a little help there as it is rather simple still... however that too is promising. I still haven't gotten around to recompile Lynx to see how that fares as a comparison.
Also yes PPP authentication needs to be added.
The front end isn't that important. The solution I thought of was to modify the existing SMTP and POP mailers package them together and provide a TPTR based SBasic front end. That way processes can run separately anyway and you can also make something nice graphically very quickly. A big advantage that TPTR has (as we discovered with QWord) is that it allows you to do mouse based GUIs without using the whole of the PE per se. Ie you set up the window but all of the terrible concepts of the PE ie the Menu/Window concept that is good for context sensitive actions but looks gross as a menu system don't have to be used. Instead you can make whatever you like looking the way you want it... ie pretty ;-)
Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
