Subj : Re: Android QWK readers.
To : Alan Ianson
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Tue Dec 01 2020 01:19 pm
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.
