Subj : Current Software Efforts
To   : All
From : Steven Sheeley
Date : Sun Oct 09 2016 07:42 pm


  Hello everybody!

  Just wanted to drop in and let everyone know that I've started work on a
couple of BBS related software projects. If anyone's interested, that is.
[grin]

  The first one is called Wycker as in "All In One Basket (A Wicker Basket)",
pretty kewl name, eh? [grin] Anyways, it is designed to replace ABLOG software
that, much like most everything else these days, became abandonware. ABLOG, for
those who don't know, is a Win32 commandline program to parse the Argus FTN
Mailer logs and create Daily, Weekly and Monthly stats. While it works, it's to
limited, in my not so humble opinion. Wycker will do the same thing for
Argus/Radius/Taurus/Watergate logs but with a little more.  Here is its
functionalities:

        1) Parse Argus/Radius/Taurus/Trapgate logs.
        2) Create bulletins for posting to local message bases or echomail.
        3) Archive those logs to preserve disk space in a date/time
hierarchical format.
        4) Display Mailer stats on the Wycker Console.
        5) Parse Allfix logs.
        6) Create bulletins for posting to local message bases or echomail.
        7) Archive those logs to preserve disk space in a date/time
hierarchical format.
        8) Display Allfix stats on the Wycker Console.
        9) Parse Synchronet BBS logs.
       10) Create bulletins for posting to local message bases or echomail.
       11) Archive those logs to preserve disk space in a date/time
hierarchical format.
       12) Display Synchronet BBS stats on the Wycker Console.

  Those are the specs to start. If there are other logs that would be
beneficial to Parse, Generate and Archive, if I am provided a sample of those
logs I will gladly add them to Wycker. Wycker is written in Pascal and is a
Win32 Console app and will be designed to run continously to display the stats
and to archive logs at a predetermined time.

  The second one is a fork of Taurus (Or Trapgate, depending on the viability
of the codebase) called Northwind. Northwind is a fork of one of the two listed
and the first release will be just a rebrand of whatever codebase I pick. Going
forwrad we'll add new functionality and operations to it as needed. Northwind
is a Win32 console program, just as Argus/Radius/Taurus/Trapgate is now.

  Please feel free to join my BBS Split Infnity (infinity.synchro.net), which
is where support and discussions will take place.


Steven


... Que Dieu benisse les paiens! -Homer
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