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    From Khronos@21:2/153 to All on Sun Dec 8 13:26:57 2024
    Hi,
    I am working on ways to read messages from my Android phone and I'm trying to figure out what would work the best.
    From what I can tell so far if I could find a qwk reader
    it would be best so I only have to create a single connection between my phone and the bbs and I could read and write to any echos I want and let the bbs do the network translation for me.
    The client I am trying out now forces me to create a point node for each of the FTN's I want to read.
    This works but isn't the best as I don't have an easy way for working with echos that are Qwk based.

    Thanks for any ideas / thoughts you may have as I am open to ideas.
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  • From deon@21:2/116 to Khronos on Mon Dec 9 07:58:26 2024
    Re: Qwk Reader For Android
    By: Khronos to All on Sun Dec 08 2024 01:26 pm

    Howdy,

    I am working on ways to read messages from my Android phone and I'm trying to figure out what would work the best.

    Thanks for any ideas / thoughts you may have as I am open to ideas.

    What I could do, and I'm tossing up whether I do it, is make API access to clrghouz messages. So if somebody wrote an an app for Android (and iOS) and makes API calls, I could surface the messages and message areas via it.

    If there are any frontend developers here who want to do that, I'll do the backend stuff :)


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Khronos on Sun Dec 8 15:45:40 2024
    Re: Qwk Reader For Android
    By: Khronos to All on Sun Dec 08 2024 01:26 pm

    I am working on ways to read messages from my Android phone and I'm trying t figure out what would work the best.

    For a time, I set up my Android phone with a keyboard and DOSBOX for Android, and ran MultiMail in the DOS window. Worked pretty well.


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  • From Ragnarok@21:2/151 to All on Sun Dec 8 23:58:14 2024
    El 8/12/24 a las 15:26, Khronos (21:2/153) escribió:
    Hi,
    I am working on ways to read messages from my Android phone and I'm trying to figure out what would work the best.
    From what I can tell so far if I could find a qwk reader
    it would be best so I only have to create a single connection between my phone and the bbs and I could read and write to any echos I want and let the bbs do the network translation for me.
    The client I am trying out now forces me to create a point node for each of the FTN's I want to read.
    This works but isn't the best as I don't have an easy way for working with echos that are Qwk based.

    Thanks for any ideas / thoughts you may have as I am open to ideas.
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    I don't see any qwk client for android, but you can use HotDogEd with
    nntp instead of ftn.
    Unfortunately it is dismantled, but it works quite well.
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