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   Message 4,010 of 5,461   
   Charles Pierson to Alan Ianson   
   Re: Android QWK readers.   
   01 Dec 20 13:19:07   
   
   TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46   
   MSGID: 1:153/757.26 05eff08a   
   REPLY: 102.fido-bbscarni@1:153/757.2 242b1cc3   
   TZUTC: 0000   
   On 30 Nov 2020, Alan Ianson said the following...   
       
    AI>   Re: Re: Android QWK readers.   
    AI>   By: Robert Wolfe to Alan Ianson on Mon Nov 30 2020 06:03 pm   
    AI>    
    AI>  RW> I believe Android apps are written in Java. If so that so, then    
    AI>  RW> MultiMail and SyncTerm would need to be ported to Java as well.   
    AI>    
    AI> Yes, I think a lot of what you see on the android is Java. Someone gave   
    AI> me another option but it was just as alien to me.   
    AI>    
    AI> A couple problems I see with MultiMail on the android is Zip and Unzip.   
    AI> Maybe that is already there, I'm not sure. We'd also need a way to   
    AI> down/upload mail packets and replies.   
    AI>    
    AI> I was reading in another area a couple people are running BBSs on their   
    AI> phones.   
    AI>    
    AI>    
    AI> If those BBSs are capable of creating QWK packets they might be looking   
    AI> for an OLR to go with it.. :)   
    AI>    
    AI>  Ttyl :-),   
    AI>          Al   
      
   I'm one of those people, but strictly speaking the BBS is running on a VM   
   Linux system with a Raspberry Pi release of the software.   
      
   If QWK readers would run on a Raspberry PI, it should work the same way.   
      
   --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)   
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