On 12 Oct 16  20:21:02, Steven Sheeley said the following to Nick Andre:   
      
   SS> I've not yet looked at Trapgate. Either one will have to be converted from    
   SS> Delphi Project into Lazarus. I've got the source code for both Taurus and   
   SS> Trapgate, just not sure which one is better, although Trapgate has newer   
   SS> source.   
      
   The biggest challenge you may run into would be the Nodelist compiler and any    
   assembly-language routines which do CRC-16 and CRC-32 calculations for Xmodem    
   and Zmodem. Nodelist compilers usually are written using a database module    
   such as Turbopower's B-Tree. However I believe there is a Delphi recompile   
   someone posted on Sourceforge which should take care of that. The reason why    
   B-Tree is commonly used is so the Sysop can do a poll-request, FREQ or other    
   function by name, or when browsing Zone, Region or Net segments.   
      
   Any code that references dialup modems... mehhh its your call but personally a   
   mailer is not a mailer unless it supports dialup and does FTS-0001 at the bare   
   minimum. Again I'm sure theres Delphi serial-port routines and probably a mess   
   of assembler or other stuff in Trapgate that needs to be rewritten.   
      
   When a mailer does everything "all in one" like D'Bridge does... mailer,    
   tosser, editor, nodelist compiler, etc etc; you can imagine that porting all    
   of that DOS code to a modern platform is VERY challenging given half is in    
   Pascal along with some fancy (and bizarre) assembler stuff thrown in the mix.   
      
   SS> As far as Help, I'd be thrilled to have someone else assisting on these   
   SS> projects. I'm relearning Pascal, last time I touched it was back in the Old   
   SS> BBS days when I was running T.A.G.   
      
   Let me know either way - nandre -at- net229 -dot- org or 1:229/426.   
      
   If Trapgate was written using Turbopower's TPCRT module, let me know as I had    
   to rewrite that for Freepascal and that was NOT FUN, a total nightmare I do    
   not wish on any other Fido developer. I'll gladly send you my work on that.   
      
   Nick   
      
   --- Renegade vY2Ka2   
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