Hey Sean!   
      
   Feb 21 22:26 06, Sean Rima wrote to Maurice Kinal:   
      
    SR> I recently changed my setup from HPT to Fastecho/Alfix, I had a reg    
    SR> key for allfix and you can get free reg for fastecho. My CCTV PC has    
    SR> given up the ghost so I had to stick a 2 cam card into the main PC    
    SR> and add another HD as well :)   
      
   Sounds okay for a node but I am looking for something more sane for points and   
   users.  Since BBS sysops don't care about their users - if they even have any   
   these days - then I am taking it upon myself to create something that works,   
   and is lean and mean for my latest minimized ttylinux I am running on this   
   box.  I managed to liberate myself from requiring a faked out zmodem transfer   
   so now it is a simple matter of eliminating the tosser (hpt), and the editor   
   (msged).  I plan to use a customized microperl to convert back and forth   
   between text and FTN style pkt's for the uplink.   
      
   I picked up this message that I am responding to with a bash scripted ftp   
   client and am now working on a microperl script that can be added to the   
   system so that it can easily be ported.  Just working on a replacement for the   
   perl %ENV hash for microperl and will take it from there.  Instead I have a   
   system call to /usr/bin/env and am using that instead.  This way I save well   
   over 30M and can keep the rootfs so that it will fit onto one floppy.  There   
   is no way that the normal Fido stuff, no matter what platform or programs,   
   will ever fit onto one floppy along with the entire root file system.  This   
   does and will.   
      
   I am evil.  :-)   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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