1. Re: internet game
I have a (free) Play By e-Mail SERVer <pbmserv at demo.bsdi.com>. It responds
to mails almost instantly, instead of once daily. To find out what pbmserv
is, try sending a blank e-mail there with Subject: help
This pbmserv runs on UNIX BSD/OS 4.0. Most of it is presently in C++, and
the rest in Perl and shellscripts.
I would really like to see a UNIX port of Euphoria -- a BSD port would be
nice, in that I will be using it for new games! (A Linux port, while is
still nice, would not be of advantage to me, but if RDS can gain access to
a BSD machine, I believe it is just a matter of recompilation...)
>Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 07:47:45 -0400
>From: isaac <isaaca at MINDSPRING.COM>
>Subject: <No subject given>
>
>Has anyone come up with a library for using the internet?
>
>I want to write a long term strategy game playable online. Here's how it
>would work: I'd establish an email address or a site of some sort to serve
>as a middle man. Every day, say around 1am, I'd log on and my central
>program would download and process the encypted messages posted the
>previous day by each player's client program, then it would post for each
>player his or her view of the aftermath, which would be received by the
>clients, and so forth. Alternately, I might divide the day into phases,
>movement, build, attack, etc, but you get the idea. I realize I could just
>use attached files to be fed to the software manually, but I'd much rather
>let the program handle the downloading itself, if possible.
>
>Any information or advice would be appreciated.
Currently, to handle that, use:
- Windows 95 or NT;
- Eudora Pro or any other mailer that supports filtering messages by saving
it and sending the filename to a program;
- its filter to send mails to EXW (must be EXW, cannot use EX) to run an
Euphoria program reading and processing it (the filename is sent as an
argument, use command_line() to get it);
- a slightly modified code from %EUDIR%\DEMO\WIN32\EMAIL.EXW to send
replies;
- an alarm clock to wake you up at every 1 am to log on 
It should work, and there will be no need to study Microsoft's library.
