BBS
I am still not sure if I'm going to do conversion of files from BBS-PC –
the file area is no problem, but I don't have any way of getting the
message base out of BBS-PC aside from going and figuring out their file
format – have you ever seen a utility for converting the BBS-PC message
base into something else?
You definitely get programmability. Message base isolation works much like
it does in BBS-PC. Multi user, multi serial is no problem.
Having the file handling as a seprate task wouldn't help any, as when BBX
is doing anything that the user has to wait for, it's because the user
wants the result. Saving messages takes almost no time, and that's about
the only place where you're starting any sort of database work that you
don't immediately care about the result of.
"single-file download targeting"?
"background statistical utilities"?
I'm not going to publicly disclose my file structures. I will, however,
give you routines you can call to access the files. This way I'm not tied
to the file format.
…Steve