Hi all!

I'm working on my mhsgateway between sbbs <> worldgroup

https://github.com/ftoledo/mhsgateway

Here some screenshots for the mhsgatecfg.js tool

https://github.com/ftoledo/mhsgateway/wiki

Note that is a WIP, at this point i can export from sbbs subs to mhs message file that wg can import,
also, WG export messages via "MHS:" prefix and sbbs import them runing mshgate.js script

I still need to improve the whole process, better code, refactor, better handle headers, error checks etc.. but is a good point to start.

Saludos!
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Re: MHS Gateway SBBS / WG / Major BBS
By: Ragnarok to All on Fri Jan 08 2021 04:41 am

Hi all!

I'm working on my mhsgateway between sbbs <> worldgroup

Cool. MHS support for Synchronet was on my todo list a *long* time ago. I have (or had?) the SMF v70 spec from Novell (bound book) as well. But never got around to it. Glad somebody finally is! Hopefully JS (jsexec) makes it easy. :-)
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El 8/1/21 a las 06:33, Digital Man escribi¢:

Re: MHS Gateway SBBS / WG / Major BBS
By: Ragnarok to All on Fri Jan 08 2021 04:41 am

> Hi all!
>
> I'm working on my mhsgateway between sbbs <> worldgroup

Cool. MHS support for Synchronet was on my todo list a *long* time ago. I have (or had?) the SMF v70 spec from Novell (bound book) as well. But never got around to it. Glad somebody finally is! Hopefully JS (jsexec) makes it easy. :-)

Yes, I must admit that I never used novell mhs, I only knew it from WG.

Unfortunately it is difficult to get information from both MHS and
SFM-70 on the web. I am doing reverse engineering of files that export
and import WG

I found some problems in WG with the dates, that the original value of messages did not imported, but I was able to patch the galmhs.dll module
with the help of Duckula from TheMajorBBS project and now it works
correctly.

Another problem is that WG doesn't export the date header either.

The first option is to take the creation date of the exported file as
the shipping date

The second option is to also patch galmhs.dll when exporting so that it
adds that header.

Is it possible that the book you have will be digitized?

Truly jsexec was the best idea to allow extending the SBBS features.

Saludos!

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Re: Re: MHS Gateway SBBS / WG / Major BBS
By: Ragnarok to Digital Man on Fri Jan 08 2021 06:09 pm

El 8/1/21 a las 06:33, Digital Man escribió:

Re: MHS Gateway SBBS / WG / Major BBS
By: Ragnarok to All on Fri Jan 08 2021 04:41 am

> Hi all!
>
> I'm working on my mhsgateway between sbbs <> worldgroup

Cool. MHS support for Synchronet was on my todo list a *long* time ago. I have (or had?) the SMF v70 spec from Novell (bound book) as well. But never got around to it. Glad somebody finally is! Hopefully JS (jsexec) makes it easy. :-)

Yes, I must admit that I never used novell mhs, I only knew it from WG.

Unfortunately it is difficult to get information from both MHS and
SFM-70 on the web. I am doing reverse engineering of files that export
and import WG

I found some problems in WG with the dates, that the original value of messages did not imported, but I was able to patch the galmhs.dll module with the help of Duckula from TheMajorBBS project and now it works correctly.

Another problem is that WG doesn't export the date header either.

The first option is to take the creation date of the exported file as
the shipping date

The second option is to also patch galmhs.dll when exporting so that it
adds that header.

Is it possible that the book you have will be digitized?

I don't know. It's a Novell publication:
NOVELL
SMV v71 Programmer's Reference
Software Developer's Kit
100-001213-001

I couldn't find it anywhere for purchase online, but if you think it'd be helpful to you, send me your address and I'll send it to you. I don't think I'll have any use for it in the future.
I did find these related references online which look maybe helpful: https://support.novell.com/techcenter/articles/dnd19950501.html https://support.novell.com/techcenter/articles/dnd19950701.html

Truly jsexec was the best idea to allow extending the SBBS features.

I took inspiration from Mozilla's jsshell, but it has worked well for us to have an external interpretter. And there's a sort of fork of it called jsdoor too, which doesn't require a Synchronet installation.
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Digital Man wrote to Ragnarok <=-

Cool. MHS support for Synchronet was on my todo list a *long* time ago.
I have (or had?) the SMF v70 spec from Novell (bound book) as well. But never got around to it. Glad somebody finally is! Hopefully JS (jsexec) makes it easy. :-) --

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