Subj : Create message bases
To : andrew clarke
From : Vincent Coen
Date : Thu Apr 08 2021 02:37 pm
Hello andrew!
Thursday April 08 2021 19:06, you wrote to Sean Dennis:
> On 2021-04-07 00:03:02, Sean Dennis (1:18/200) wrote to Kai Richter:
SD>> The author, David Nugent (who also wrote the BNU FOSSIL driver, I
SD>> believe), was pissed that so many people used his program and
SD>> never registered it. I have seen the original message where he
SD>> told people off and then said he was leaving the BBS scene
SD>> forever.
> PKT inspection was always an extremely niche feature, though. The
> number of sysops who actually needed specialised software to look at
> PKTs on a regular basis would've only been in the hundreds at best. So
> his target audience was always going to be pretty small from the
> start, and it's telling that (to my knowledge) nobody's written a
> similar program just to do that one thing, without the file manager
> part. There just wasn't the demand for it.
> I'm not sure InspectA had much else going for it. As a file manager it
> was a bit mediocre. I suspect that was the main reason more people
> didn't pay for it.
There is another tool that may well do similar - pktview that I obtained from
the Husky project and this own also works under Linux.
It will display the content of a packet that may have one or more messages.
It is in husty-master/misc. Cannot currently find the source code for it but
it is here some where as I recompiled it for Linux as x64.
Vincent
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