[FADCA] NEW bbs program help needed!!

[Bill Sinbine]

At 06:19 PM 8/27/2004, you wrote:
>Ok, now I understand. I remember the discussion earlier. Since I don't 
>operate a BBS I did not follow the discussion before.  Will this program 
>operate with what we are working with for EMCOMMS?  What I would like to 
>see is a program that would have routines the user could select the would 
>support:
>1.  Messages
>2.  Files
>3.  Conference Bridge
>4.  On line relational database that could be set up by the sysop remotely 
>and would have the capability of allowing the user to develop reports from 
>the database.  (My suggestion is that the software written would provide a 
>remote packet station to use a MySQL or Access.  It would be good if the 
>user could start a new database remotely, but I would be satisfied if the 
>database could have present tables that would allow the entering of data 
>for shelter registrations, assignments, supplies, and or combination of 
>those types of data.  Reports to be generated would be for scheduling 
>operators for shelter and other facilities, shelter bed counts, Multiple 
>Casualty Incident transportation of victims to enable the incident 
>commander or triage officer to manage the response to victims, hospital 
>ER/bed status, rescue unit run status, etc.)
>
>I would like to discuss this further. I think anything that is developed 
>not for use with remote packet stations enable us to provide a more 
>comprehensive service to emergency response (served) agencies, that would 
>enable them to have better management of the disaster.  We need to think 
>much further than messages. We need to provide a tool that is dynamic, 
>expandable to meet the situation, and that could be supported by remote 
>packet stations using a variety of communications software (not be user 
>software dependent.)
>
>If it is "web" based but use TEXT rather than graphics, that would be very 
>acceptable.
>
>Russ
>
> >


Hi Russ
Thanks for the input. I sent the message to Jeff to look at and see what he 
might be able to do. He is looking at little things that he might be able 
to add right now for the first ALPHA release. He is compiling a list of 
everything that he gets with what the program should be able to do and he 
will work on it from there.

I know that there are many others that have some type of input for the program.
How about it incorporating the Paclink/telnet code into it. Should be easy 
to add for him since the program will work (down the road) with AGW and 
telnet so just having the working code to add is all it will take for the 
most part I think!!

The way the code was/is written it will also work in Linux once we have a 
REAL program to work with. This might help Rick with getting telnet ported 
over to linux if it is added as part of the bbs program...I'll have to get 
Rick and Jeff together to see what we can do to make this new bbs program 
Winlink 2k compliant. This will be down the road as we need to get this 
working first...

Think about it .....
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Bill Sinbine
n4xeo at bellsouth.net