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Subj: SALLY UPDATE buona speranza!
Path: IW8PGT<CX2SA<VK2DOT<GB7COW<GB7COW
Sent: 150524/1344 @:GB7COW.#44.GBR.EURO $:5230_I6KZR Sally 4.1.232
Date: dom, 24 mag 2015 13:44:20 CET
From: I6KZR@GB7COW.#44.GBR.EURO (Renzo)
To: SALLY@ITA
Subject: SALLY UPDATE buona speranza!
Inviato da: I6KZR@GB7COW.#44.GBR.EURO
Stamattina, domenica, sono arrivati due messaggi che riguardano Sally uno via BBS Packet
trattato in altro mio messaggio e l'altro piu' importante via e-mail di Ted che riporto di seguito, che,
pur premettendo che di non farsi illusioni, stava riprendendo tutto cio' che gli era rimasto di Sally
dopo che aveva a vuto un crash con il vecchio computer e purtroppo anche col fatto che diversi
sorgenti di Sally archiviati su CD di fatto ora sono illeggibilie quindi inservibili.
Si ritrova qualcosa delle librerie degli inizi del lavoro che aveva fatto per convertire Sally da XP a
Windows 7 e semmai dovesse far qualcosa forse ripartira' da li' preconfigurando sempre che,
non avendo ne' radio ne' modem packet, l'AX25 rimarrebbe handicappato.
Intanto, rispondendo a Ken il titolare del BBS GB7COW gli ho detto di spargere la voce per trovare
li' in GB una radio e un modem, HI!
Altrimenti gliela mando io, di modem ho 5 o 6 KAMPLUS!!!
Iscrivetevi al gruppo di Sally su Yahoo!
Ecco quanto dice Ted:
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Hi all,
**** Please don't get you hopes up too much when you read this. It is just a possibility, not a
commitment. ***
However..
I did think that if I could find a telnet BBS I could use, and Renzo's mention of GB7COW looks like
a good possibility that I might try running Sally again. [edit: Ken has now given me access to
GB7COW telnet] So, on a quiet day when I had nothing much to do I decided to dig out the old
Sally code.
Problems...!!!
The first problem I ran in to was that I no longer have the source code for Sally 4. It was lost when I
replaced my old crashed PC. I had a backup DVD but it filed failed. The disk was totally
unreadable. An extensive search of all my other backups did not find anything usable. So forget
Sally 4 then...
Fortunately I still have the (incomplete) last attempt I made to produce a "Sally 7" version for use
with Windows 7, but it used the same support libraries I wrote for standard functions (like file
handling, registry functions and others) as Sally 4. These libraries were also lost!
I do have a later version of my libraries now combined into a single support dll file, but whilst this
dll provides all of the functions the old libraries use to provide, the implementation if rather
different, requiring some extensive re-writing of the Sally source code. If I can convert all these
library calls to use my dll instead, I could then look into completing the Win 7 version of Sally.
There is no possibility of testing any AX25 RF BBS functions (I no longer have any radio or packet
equipment) so its usefulness may be limited, but I might have a go at it. I remember there were a
number of unresolved problems with the Win 7 version when I originally gave up on it, and no
doubt there will be some problems that I am not yet even aware of. We shall see...
I enjoy programming, but I hope you can all appreciate there will be a lot of work involved, so it
may take some time and there is no guarantee that I will ever completed it. The time available to
"just sit and program" is limited these days. The wife often has other ideas of how to use my time!
Ted.
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Frase del giorno:
La donna e' un male necessario (Aulo Gellio)
73 Ciao a tutti Renzo.
li, dom 24 maggio 2015 13:23 (+1.00) CET
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