Subj : fossil implementation difficulty
To   : xbit
From : fusion
Date : Fri Apr 16 2021 03:02 pm

On 16 Apr 2021, xbit said the following...

xb> what would the degree of difficulty be to implement fossil capabilities
xb> into a non-fossil BBS program. Like, say. Spitfire BBS.

the fossil "api" isn't incredibly complicated. it somewhat mirrors how the
serial routines would work. i believe the filename is like "fossil.cht.txt"
or similar for a nice chart. you can probably get away with not implementing
quite a bit of it nowadays .. for example baud changes for a virtual fossil
driver probably always respond "success" .. and at some point they tacked on
a bunch of screen writing routines you wouldn't need to learn/use.

there's a very nice selection of example code in the SWAG archive here:
http://swag.outpostbbs.net/COMM/index.html

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