Greetings All!

Is there a dumb terminal of sorts for the modern day binkd? Like a window open in a terminal where you can watch the doings of bink? I think I am remembering such a thing from back in the day with binkleyterm... I may be mistaken old age and all..



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Rick Smith (Nitro)

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Is there a dumb terminal of sorts for the modern day binkd? Like a window open in a terminal where you can watch the doings of bink? I think I am remembering such a thing from back in the day with binkleyterm... I may be mistaken old age and all..

I remember that display from binleyterm, 4 colour CGA or something.. :)

I've often thought that one day someone would write some sort of graphical front end for binkd but I have never seen one.
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Hi! Alan,

On 18 Jun 2021, Alan Ianson said the following...

I remember that display from binleyterm, 4 colour CGA or something.. :) I've often thought that one day someone would write some sort of
graphical front end for binkd but I have never seen one.

If you can point a DOS-like box at the BSO (via a network share, even), you could use Bonk (the old BSO util) to drive the outbound. Even a Binkley non-fossil task would do. Then there's the Argus trio: Argus, Radius, or Taurus. Probably more that I don't know of.

:)

Cheers,
Paul.
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On 18 Jun 2021 at 05:26p, Rick Smith pondered and said...

Is there a dumb terminal of sorts for the modern day binkd? Like a
window open in a terminal where you can watch the doings of bink? I
think I am remembering such a thing from back in the day with

Well I have a copy running in a terminal and use this to get it running.

./binkd -C binkd.cfg
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I remember that display from binleyterm, 4 colour CGA or something.. :)
I've often thought that one day someone would write some sort of
graphical front end for binkd but I have never seen one.

If you can point a DOS-like box at the BSO (via a network share, even), you could use Bonk (the old BSO util) to drive the outbound. Even a Binkley non-fossil task would do.

I only use one external app here, showold.pl to have a quick look at the outbound.

Then there's the Argus trio: Argus, Radius, or Taurus. Probably more that
I don't know of.

I had a quick look at argus shortly after it was released. Quite impressive. I don't have a windows box here so I haven't been able to follow radius/taurus but from what I read they made some improvements.

Even if there was a graphical front end I don't think I'd use it but I do get nostalgic for the old FD, Binkley and PoP days.. :)
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Hi! Alan,

On 06/19/2021 01:44 PM, you wrote:

Even if there was a graphical front end I don't think I'd use it but I do get nostalgic for the old FD, Binkley and PoP days.. :)

Me too. My itch is Radius but I can't do it; all Linux now.

Cheers,
Paul.
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Hi Rick,

On 2021-06-18 17:26:24, you wrote to All:

Is there a dumb terminal of sorts for the modern day binkd? Like a
window open in a terminal where you can watch the doings of bink? I
think I am remembering such a thing from back in the day with binkleyterm... I may be mistaken old age and all..

Nope, but since you are on linus:

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You could do something like this:

# tail -f binkd.log

In a terminal of your choice. But lines will scroll by pretty fast and of the screen if there are sessions in progress. So you could combine it with something like:

# tail -f binkd.log | egrep 'ing session | done '

Or some other filtering for the lines you like to see...


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# tail -f binkd.log | egrep 'ing session | done '

Or some other filtering for the lines you like to see...

I love it. But couldn't 'ing session |' in there clutter things up a wee bit? Wouldn't just egrep 'done (' suffice? Depends of course of what you want to see...

I agree though with the previous writer, I'd love a GUI program that can sort out all the different information in the log file and present it in a humanly readable way.

I started out once (in BP7), but came to the conclusion that it would be a Windows only program, so no use to most of the other binkd users. 8-)



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Hi Björn,

On 2021-06-19 12:45:44, you wrote to me:

# tail -f binkd.log | egrep 'ing session | done '

Or some other filtering for the lines you like to see...

I love it. But couldn't 'ing session |' in there clutter things up a
wee bit? Wouldn't just egrep 'done (' suffice? Depends of course of
what you want to see...

It was just an example so you see the begining and end of each outgoing and incoming session. Everyone could of course use a filter string to their own liking.

I agree though with the previous writer, I'd love a GUI program that
can sort out all the different information in the log file and present
it in a humanly readable way.

It is a server daemon. It's not customary to monitor those in realtime, it should just quitely do it's job! ;)

Bye, Wilfred.
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Hello Rick.

18 Jun 21 17:26, you wrote to All:

Greetings All!

Is there a dumb terminal of sorts for the modern day binkd? Like a
window open in a terminal where you can watch the doings of bink? I
think I am remembering such a thing from back in the day with binkleyterm... I may be mistaken old age and all..

on my linux machine i'm running binkd in screen.. or you can just tail -f the log file :)

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19 Jun 21 12:45:44, Bj├╢rn Felten wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

I agree though with the previous writer, I'd love a GUI program that can sort out all the different information in the log file and present it in a humanly readable way.

I started out once (in BP7), but came to the conclusion that it
would be a Windows only program, so no use to most of the other binkd users. 8-)

Have a look at Free Pascal. It uses BP7 syntax and can build for Windows, OS/2, Linux, FreeBSD & MacOS.

There is a CRT unit that can be used for text mode CUI apps, to display an output similar to BinkleyTerm's, though another option would be to just to output ANSI codes directly and let the Windows/OS2/*NIX terminal interpret them.

For cross-platform GUI apps there's the Free Pascal GUI toolkit, fpGUI. Or you can use Lazarus, which is basically an open source version of Borland Delphi.

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