DnA 6-12: An Introduction to Fido-Type Nets (part I)
@eZine
Published in
DnA Electronic Magazine
· 15 May 2023
... needed, I'll have to explain the way echomail works. Echomail is a Fido standard for networked message bases. In this standard, each message base has a separate directory on disk, and each message is a single file in that directory with the name #.MSG ... Message #1 would be 1.MSG, #2 would be 2.MSG, and so on. This is a very simple concept, and one that works well. In order to get the messages sent out to wherever they're going (most likely your hub), they have to be packetized. What this me ...
