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  • New at Synchronet and BBSs, programming help thread?

    From G4br13l to All on Friday, September 24, 2021 16:20:08
    Hello,

    I am new at the BBS stuff and I am relatively dissoriented. It took me some work to actually realise how to get here and how to work with the messaging. This is my first attempt to write a full-fledged message, so please pardon if it looks like a total mess.

    Well, i thought that I could somewhere find a programming thread to debate and find some help (im somewhat of a beginner in CPP and Java and my programs are sometimes quite buggy). If you know any place like that, please tell me where can I find it. I would be really grateful.

    Thanks for support.
  • From poindexter FORTRAN to G4br13l on Saturday, September 25, 2021 08:05:00
    G4br13l wrote to All <=-

    Hello,

    I am new at the BBS stuff and I am relatively dissoriented. It took me some work to actually realise how to get here and how to work with the messaging. This is my first attempt to write a full-fledged message, so please pardon if it looks like a total mess.

    Well, i thought that I could somewhere find a programming thread to
    debate and find some help (im somewhat of a beginner in CPP and Java
    and my programs are sometimes quite buggy). If you know any place like that, please tell me where can I find it. I would be really grateful.

    Welcome! You've found the local message area. If you go to the messages menu and select the [j]ump to area command, you'll see a list of message areas. Each are networked with other BBSes and have a bunch of messages arranged in topics. DOVEnet might be a good place to start.


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  • From G4br13l to poindexter FORTRAN on Saturday, September 25, 2021 17:47:27
    Re: Re: New at Synchronet and BBSs, programming help thread?
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to G4br13l on Sat Sep 25 2021 08:05 am

    Thanks!

    I am now able to change discussion places, and do basic navigating. I am still struggling a little bit, but i think that it is now just a matter of time until i fully master the navigation system. I have also dome some settings at newscan so i think that now a new step for me to overcome is here;
    i know that you can do a lot of things at BBSs, and so far ive got to some
    text games and node-to-node chat. However, to my knowledge, there is some archive-sort of thing so i think that my next steps should be to familiarize myself with that functionality. Im wondering if it will be compatible with Windows 11, but i think it should be. Putty will hopefully do the rest.

    Thank you very much again, and i will write again if i become stuck somewhere again. Hopefully that doesnt happen tho.
    My best regards,
    g4br13l.