jwz@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Jamie Zawinski) (09/04/89)
I've been toying with the idea of implementing an AMS client on TI Explorer Lisp machines. Assume that I can open a TCP connection to some machine at CMU, but that I can't access AFS - is it possible to read CMU andrew bboards by just talking to some server? I've poked around a bit in the source code for BatMail, but I don't really know where to start looking... any advice appreciated, -- Jamie (jwz@teak.berkeley.edu or jwz@spice.cs.cmu.edu)
jwz@teak.berkeley.edu (Jamie Zawinski) (09/06/89)
> From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) > My advice, for a first pass, is to try to get the "cuis" program to compile > on the TI machine. (I assume it has a C compiler.) cuis is the SNAP > version of CUI, the bare-bones AMS interface. You should be able to compile > it pretty easily, I believe. Explorers don't run C at all, so I can't reuse any existant code; what I was hoping for is some server similar to NNTP, where I can just open up a connection and say, "give me the next article," and it will dump some text my way. It would be nice if I could decide whether what I get is in datastream format or not, but that isn't very important; I can deal with either (eventually I'd like to interpret the datastream, but at first I'll probably just filter the text out of it). Why do I want to do this? Mostly for kicks, but my primary motivation is that the netnews reader on Explorers is just like RN, and I hate RN. My secondary motivation is that I can't read the CMU bboards from here (UCB) except through telnet. Lower down on the list is that I like the idea of multimedia bboards... -- Jamie