From: htoaster@yabbs
To: Aisha@yabbs
Subject: re: Client
Date: Thu Feb 24 14:13:22 1994
In message re: Client, Aisha said:
> If you have to C code, I'd be glad to do NeXT, Sun, DEC clients -
> I usually do terminal emulation from a Mac to one of the above, and
> then connect - also, I doubt the VAX client can be that different from
> UNIX - send me the code and I'll see what I can do. OK? Enjoy.

sorry about the blank message, i screwed up...anyway, We have current DEC
and Sun clients, but a NeXT client would be nice.  You can ftp the code for
it from this machine (phred.pc.cc.cmu.edu) in /pub/yabbs/yabbscli.tar.gz.
The only thing that the client might use that the vax might not support
is the termcap library (and sockets, I'm not sure how vaxen deal with that).
If you do a port there you can change a few functions to ditch the termcap
stuff (i'll explain in more detail if you want it).

In fact porting to anything should be fairly easy.  There are only a few 
termcap or socket specific functions, all of which could be changed to use
anything else.  For instance I think it would be nice to write an msdos
client someday that talks to the comm port to get to a server, like dialin
your connection over an annex, and telnet to the server, and then run
the msdos client.

Too bad I don't have any msdos machines :)  Maybe I'll play with it on my
roommates computer someday.

alex