Lots of work…

I’ve done quite a bit of work on the BBS today, but not much else. I was planning on cleaning, but that didn’t get done…

I was going to some serious cleaning today, but we wound up getting up late, then running errands, and that just shot the rest of the day. Since I only have one night off for two days, I tend not to do anything much in the evenings.

I have, however, done a lot of work on the BBS. I finally remembered how to make ANSI menus and found a .BBS file to make the BBS auto-detect ANSI to display an ANSI menu. However, with some terminal programs, such as HyperTerminal, you have to hit the ENTER key once to get the screen to load.

I’ve fixed the broken new user questionnaire as well as started making ANSI menus instead of the ugly stock Maximus menus. I added “It Happened Today”, a great “today in history” MEX I found as well as a “today’s callers” MEX by the same author. I fixed a bunch of other little things with the board. It felt good to spend a few hours working on it, making it better.

I also got a young new user, Thomas, from Georgia Tech, calling today. We chatted for about an hour while I explained BBSes to him. I got him to download and use Syncterm on his Linux box so he could get into the BBS correctly. He’s the reason I fixed that darn new user questionnaire. I need to write a little util that will go through all of the text-based “answer” files and extract all the information I need for records.

So far, it’s been a quiet night and I hope it stays that way. Besides my having oral surgery next week, the past few weeks have just flown by and I feel like I haven’t accomplished anything. But, I am waiting to hear on my accident settlement, and after that, we may move somewhere else. That is still under discussion.

Now to go watch some TV and relax.