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    From shinobi@21:1/153 to All on Wed Feb 20 21:06:28 2019
    Hello All,

    today we live in exciting time.
    Computer became the very core
    of our society. And mobile phones
    our third hands.

    What this post is about is a way
    of mobile bbsing.

    I'm writing this from Android phone
    connected to Mystic BBS. Able to
    change client's encoding, download
    files.

    The used bbs terminal is qodem.
    The used terminal emulation is qodem.
    How to do that is not that difficult.

    There is a Termux emulation available
    at the store. The prreqs are elinks,
    automake, git and clang. Afterwards just
    changed the branch to 1.0.1-dev and cloned
    the repo.

    During the process I used ./config --help
    and according to the options I disabled all
    the options that would prevent qodem to have
    unneeded options. SDL, gpm, serial, upnp all
    isn't really needed.

    In current state the makefiles in dev are somehow
    not valid. I had to fix it as follows:

    aclocal
    autoconf
    autoheader
    automake --add-missing

    Then issued make. There was one trouble
    in a file because it did't by default in
    termux environment and installed ncurses-dev
    libs correctly recognized the cchar_t data
    type. What I've done was to add:

    #define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED = 1

    to the failed file prior to includes.

    The qodem compiled fine. And as this
    test seems it worked. Well one more
    thing. The Termux doesn't have fn keys.
    So it's a good idea to grab Hacker's
    keyboard from the store. And when there
    is need for fn keys above the cursor
    keys use volume up +0 to save the
    phonebook entry.

    First attempt to write this message
    failed. Just because I had to reconnect
    with the backspace changed to ctrl+h
    instead default del.

    And that's it. The qodem in Termux
    solved my doubts about having to use
    telnet and ftp from mobile. And instead
    I'm transferring files and correctly
    emulating ANSI.

    Thanks for attention and have a nice day

    |08Shinobi <.Phenom.>

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A42 2018/12/30 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Infoline BBS (21:1/153)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to shinobi on Thu Feb 21 12:24:22 2019
    On 20 Feb 2019 at 09:06p, shinobi pondered and said...

    I'm writing this from Android phone
    connected to Mystic BBS. Able to
    change client's encoding, download
    files.

    Nice :)

    Best, Paul

    --- E:[email protected] ------ W:bbs.nz ---
    --- K:keybase.io/avon --------------

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/02/17 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Night Stalker@21:1/178 to shinobi on Thu Feb 21 17:00:00 2019
    Hello All,

    today we live in exciting time.
    Computer became the very core
    of our society. And mobile phones
    our third hands.

    What this post is about is a way
    of mobile bbsing.

    I'm writing this from Android phone
    connected to Mystic BBS. Able to
    change client's encoding, download
    files.


    What I am seeing from this message is 40 column mode lol .. great for
    C64/128 callers but not so much for everyone else

    --- MagickaBBS v0.12alpha (Linux/x86_64)
    * Origin: Internal Dimension [idbbs.dlinkddns.com:2023] (21:1/178)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Night Stalker on Fri Feb 22 15:57:10 2019
    On 21 Feb 2019 at 05:00p, Night Stalker pondered and said...

    What I am seeing from this message is 40 column mode lol .. great for C64/128 callers but not so much for everyone else

    I don't think it really hurts.. :)

    Best, Paul

    --- E:[email protected] ------ W:bbs.nz ---
    --- K:keybase.io/avon --------------

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/02/17 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From shinobi@21:1/153 to Night Stalker on Fri Feb 22 07:23:42 2019
    What I am seeing from this message is 40 column mode lol .. great for C64/128 callers but not so much for everyone else

    I'll try to be less expressive next time. That's an old habit from time when there was no automatic line feed as mystic message editor provides. I guess

    I was just too excited. Could be probably just because that was written after several failed attempts to compile qodem across several days.

    I know scrolling is boring.

    Best regards

    |08Shinobi <.Phenom.>

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A42 2018/12/30 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Infoline BBS (21:1/153)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Avon on Fri Feb 22 06:18:00 2019
    Avon wrote to Night Stalker <=-

    What I am seeing from this message is 40 column mode lol .. great for C64/128 callers but not so much for everyone else

    I don't think it really hurts.. :)

    It reminded me of calling Apple ][ BBSes.



    ... Where is my EXECUTE key?
    --- MultiMail/XT v0.51
    * Origin: http://realitycheckbbs.org (21:4/122)