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From: rlw@ttardis.UUCP (Ron Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Proline versus Fredmail
Message-ID: <2456@ttardis.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 90 17:05:57 GMT
Organization: Gallifrey
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In article <[1862]apple@oldcolo.UUCP>, dave@oldcolo.UUCP (Dave Hughes) writes:
>
>Could someone post some basic information comparing the value
>of Proline with Fredmail for Apple IIe BBS systems capable
>of 'talking to' Unix/uucp/netnews systems.
>
>I am in contact with those who know and use Fredmail, but
>learned today that a "Morgan Davis" and Proline as an Apple
>BBS could exchange traffic with a unix system.

While I don't really know much about Proline, I HAVE written the
software necessary for a UNIX system to exchange mail and news
with a Proline system.

There isn't that much to my software - most of it involves running
a handshaking protocol around a basic Xmodem file transfer (Proline
doesn't know uucp) and converting between using LF and CR for line
termination in text files.

The remainder of my UNIX <-> Proline software involved modifying a
clone of /bin/mail (which I got from a comp.sources archive) to
be able to invoke my Proline conterpart to uux.

Also, I modified the mailer to be able to pipe a message into rnews
(to handle processing of bulletin board messages from a Proline system).

- Ron Wilson
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