Hello All!

Testing SemPoint.

Regards,
Martin

--- SemPoint 2.26+
* Origin: Keep your ears open (2:310/31.3)

On 2019 May 29 11:31:00, you wrote to All:

@MSGID: 2:310/31.3 00200144
@PID: SemPoint 2.26
@TID: hpt/w32-mvcdll 1.9.0-cur 2019-01-08
Hello All!

Testing SemPoint.

Regards,
Martin

--- SemPoint 2.26+
* Origin: Keep your ears open (2:310/31.3)
SEEN-BY: 15/0 19/33 36 34/999 90/1 104/57 106/201 116/18 123/140 124/5014 5016
SEEN-BY: 130/803 153/7715 218/700 222/2 230/150 152 240/1120 250/1 261/38 100
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@PATH: 310/31 280/464 396/45 261/38 3634/12

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Hello Martin!

** 29.05.19 - 11:31, Martin Foster wrote to All:

AREA:POINTS
MSGID: 2:310/31.3 00200144
PID: SemPoint 2.26
TID: hpt/w32-mvcdll 1.9.0-cur 2019-01-08

Hello All!
Testing SemPoint.
Regards,
Martin
-+- SemPoint 2.26+

Congratulations! I am very impressed. You are a wizard at fido tech. :)

Good to see that HPT is quite doable with SEM. But.. would it be
sustainable for someone who is not too programmatically inclined?


../|ug

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Hi! Martin,

On 05/29/2019 06:31 PM, you wrote to All:

X-JAM-MSGID: 2:310/31.3 00200144
X-JAM-PID: SemPoint 2.26
X-JAM-FTSKLUDGE: TID: hpt/w32-mvcdll 1.9.0-cur 2019-01-08
X-JAM-SEENBY2D: 154/10 203/0 221/0 1 6 360 229/426 240/5832 280/464 5003 292/854
X-JAM-SEENBY2D: 310/31 396/45 423/120 712/848 770/1 2452/250
X-JAM-PATH2D: 310/31 280/464 221/1
X-JAM-Attributes: TypeEcho
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hello All!

Testing SemPoint.

Regards,
Martin

--- SemPoint 2.26+
* Origin: Keep your ears open (2:310/31.3)

They got an echo for things like that. ;)

Well done! Was it a comfortable fit with HPT?

Cheers,
Paul.

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Hello August!

On <Wed, 29 May 19>, you wrote me:

Congratulations! I am very impressed. You are a wizard at fido tech.
:)

Give up, you'll have me blushing -:8)

Good to see that HPT is quite doable with SEM.

Yes, as is CrashMail but it's not the choice of tosser that matters, it's the choice of message base format that matters. After a mammoth testing session the other day, I make the following observations:

Tossers
-------
[1] hpt and CrashMail will both create JAM and *.MSG message bases.
[2] hpt will create a Squish message base, CrashMail will not.

SemPoint
--------
[1] Will not interpret a JAM message base correctly.
[2] Will not interpret a Squish message base correctly.
[3] Interprets a *.MSG message base correctly.

In the case of [1] and [2] above, SemPoint adds garbage on the line directly below the origin line and does not show the first line of a message(s). The first line is usually, but not always, a "greeting" line.

Support for external config files
---------------------------------
AREAS.BBS - crashes SemPoint.

GOLDED.CFG - SemPoint doesn't appear to do anything with it, i.e. no areas show up in SemPoint's area list.

SQUISH.CFG - SemPoint reads it and automatically sets up areas in SemPoint's area list.

I think that just about covers it so far.

But.. would it be sustainable for someone who is not too
programmatically inclined?

No way :(

Regards,
Martin

--- SemPoint 2.26+
* Origin: Mail Media. Do not expose to Flames! (2:310/31.3)

Hello Paul!

On <Thu, 30 May 19>, you wrote me:

They got an echo for things like that. ;)

Yeah, I'll post my test shots in FIDOTEST in future :-))

Well done! Was it a comfortable fit with HPT?

The fit was very comfortable, it was all the configuring of hpt and CrashMail plus all the testing that was uncomfortable.

Regards,
Martin

--- SemPoint 2.26+
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Hello Martin!

** 31.05.19 - 11:47, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

Tossers
-------
[2] hpt will create a Squish message base, CrashMail will not.

SemPoint
--------
[2] Will not interpret a Squish message base correctly.

...SemPoint adds garbage on the line
directly below the origin line and does not show the first line of a
message(s). The first line is usually, but not always, a "greeting" line.

I don't recall any missing "first line" in my Sempoint-usage days. I
know that I either used Fmail or Fastecho back in the day.

Since JAM is broken in SEM, I probably just used the "default" Squish, so that rules out Fmail.

.: I probably I used FastEcho, and its corresponding FASTECHO.CFG. I'll give it a go with FastEcho and see what develops.

I *do* recall a very smooth point/node setup with SEM. So, I never encountered the many issues you found with the alternative .CFG files and/
or JAM format.

I think that just about covers it so far.

Thank you for your work and report.

But.. would it be sustainable for someone who is not too
programmatically inclined?

No way :(

Patching/bolting other programs is not ideal.


../|ug

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Hello August!

## 31.05.19 at 20:16, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

[snip]

But.. would it be sustainable for someone who is not too
programmatically inclined?

No way :(

Patching/bolting other programs is not ideal.

I agree but as SemPoint doesn't have its own Tosser and its own IP
mailer, there's no other option.

Regards,
Martin

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