Hello Scott!   
      
   25 Jun 2012 08:56, Scott Street wrote to Benny Pedersen:   
      
    SS> Yes, I was trying to unwind my UTF-8 setup and get back to straight    
    SS> iso-8859, which failed miserably.   
      
   yes any one trying to convert unicode to other fidonet charsets will fail, but   
   converting any fidonet charset to unicode will succed in the way that   
   thunderbird shows what it talking about   
      
    SS> My Apple devices will only post UTF-8 - so I've restored my xlats and   
    SS> back to UTF-8 reading and posting.   
      
   shit happends every day for apple   
      
    SS> Thus my box is good again:   
    SS> ÔóöÔóÉÔóÉÔóÉÔóÙ   
    SS> Ôóæ   Ôóæ   
    SS> ÔóÜÔóÉÔóÉÔóÉÔóØ   
      
   its like a box here, but it could very well be anything other then a box in   
   unicode :=)   
      
    >> more success storys like this, is it done with a ebuild ?, siill my   
    >> own planned work to get jamnntpd as ebuild here, so ss life   
    >>   
    >> if it exists then i like to add it to fidonet layman overlay, so all   
    >> can complain to me its not working =))   
      
    SS> Well,  I started off just adding in TLS, however; after working with    
    SS> the code for a week, I realized just how much I could improve the    
    SS> flow.   
      
   maybe it can wake Johan ? :=)   
      
    SS> So I went nuts and started getting rid polling loops, which I    
    SS> hate and unreliable with a TLS session.   
      
   ...   
      
    SS> Building a polling loop with select() is bad practice, select is   
    SS> supposed to allow a thread to sleep while waiting for something to do,    
      
   could show hangman in ascii while it waits ? :=)   
      
    SS> although it has been used by    
    SS> many a program to is it something is ready to do.  Years of working    
    SS> with high performance computing has taught me that you only need CPU    
    SS> time when there is something to do, otherwise you just waste cycles.   
      
   yes, i remember how to write c programs on amiga, with all the nice librarys   
   in amiga kickstart and softloaded librarys that makes it whole alot more easy   
   to make something usable to users, mouse support for requesters was free :=)   
        
    SS> So, I continue to work on the code, looking for improvements in flow.   
      
   super duper   
      
   if any one make the netmail fetchelble via pop3 it would be nice to see points   
   not needing any fidonet software to use fidonet   
      
   well that require another way of save netmail to email, but it would be last   
   ting to have before jamnntpd is complete, well it is for echomail, but what   
   about files ?, ticker could be an ticker that just call newspost with will   
   post it into an news server, oh why ? :=)   
      
    SS> As for an ebuild, that would need someplace to host the source and    
    SS> someone crazy enough to make one. :)   
      
   thanks   
      
      
    Regards Benny   
      
   ... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)   
      
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