Subj : MS-DOS BBS Client Recommendations?
To : Nicholas Boel
From : mark lewis
Date : Fri Dec 16 2016 09:42 am
16 Dec 16 07:20, you wrote to me:
NB>>> Yeah, that's basically how it works. It's a full screen reader, and
NB>>> when you want to reply, you can hit "R" to reply to the message,
NB>>> which then would open up SlyDCTedit, SlyIceEdit, or whatever editor
NB>>> you have configured to use.
ml>> i think you're thinking of the digital distortion's message lister...
NB> No, I'm not. I'm specifically referring to DDMR, or Digital
NB> Distortion's Message Reader. Please just try it out, rather than
NB> assume you know what I'm talking about. :)
ok... we'll have to look and see if we can find it... the only digital
distortions stuff max has on her sbbs is slyedit... no ddml or ddmr...
ml>> slyedit has three start up modes, DCT, ICE or RANDOM... the message
ml>> lister thing is something separate and i don't find any indication of
ml>> it in Max's setup... the slyedit stuff is there and the docs do
ml>> reference the DDML but that's all i can find about it... AFAIK,
ml>> slyedit came with sbbs when Max first pulled it off the repo and
ml>> compiled it... i'm not aware of anything special done to acquire
ml>> it...
NB> The new message reader has the message lister built into it, However,
NB> it started out as a message reader, and evolved to incorporate some of
NB> his other separate mods now.
we'll see if we can find it... hopefully it is included in sbbs like slyedit
was so that it can/will be updated when an update from the sbbs repo is made...
)\/(ark
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