QuantumLink update

Just a quick update for those interested: People Connection is mostly implemented, lacking only LOCATE and ID commands. Auditorium mode is working as well. The original service had a special version of the SW (called the emcee disk) that had extra code to do the moderation for the auditorium, but I figured out a way to support auditorium with just the std disk. I implemented a few IRCisms (/me and /msg) to add some value. Along the way, a QLinker posted that he had written a sniffer while on QLink and had saved a complete Q-Link session. After he found the binary logs, I wrote a util to condense them into a single file, traced the commands, and then modified the utility to actually parse each command. I was thus able to extract 105 text files that the user had viewed that day, and 200 menu items they viewed. I then inserted those into the database, so you can now visit all the areas that user visited that day. Along the way, I found out a few more things: How to send multiple lines of bulletin text to cut down on packets (concat lines with 0xff, upto 127 chars) How to send a System IM (SYSOLM) The command is OT. How to convince the client that there is a next/previous article in a set (parms to KC command) How the file system handed sending data (39 byte chunks for 1st 18 lines, then 117 byte chunks. How to turn on the (+) time indicator on the client A user also found out how to run QLink off of an emulator (VICE) and connect to the server. So, a number of folks are connecting that way. online message and email works, not sure if I stated that in my last note. The server is pretty robust. A user can corrupt their session, but logging out will clean up that session. Jim -- Jim Brain, Brain Innovations brain at jbrain.com http://www.jbrain.com Dabbling in WWW, Embedded Systems, Old CBM computers, and Good Times!