Subj : WWIV 5.0 Release + News.
To : Mark Hofmann
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Jan 06 2016 09:12 pm
06 Jan 16 11:56, you wrote to Darryl Perry:
MH> Asking about plans for porting the network software to Linux - but some
MH> issues surround that due to Wayne Bell not allowing the nework software to
MH> be open source. There have been plans for a total re-write to get around
MH> this.
reverse engineering the protocol should be no problem in this day in time...
especially with the ability to capture the entire session in a pcap file for
analysis... once the protocol is understood, a new binary can easily be
written... but then again, you could dump all the old stuff and come up with a
whole new protocol... IIRC, WWIV's message stuffs were originally very close to
usenet news type stuffs... perhaps it is simply the IHAVE/SENDME stuff from
yesteryear? again, a pcap will tell all ;)
)\/(ark
... The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
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