c/c++ implementation of wwiv5lastcallers

I started work on a C/C++ implementation of my Python 3 scripts for InterBBS LastCallers[1]. The original scripts were inspired by xqtr’s InterBBS LastCallers script for MysticBBS[2], which were written in MysticBBS Pascal and MysticBBS Python.

Using apam’s InterBBS OneLiners for WWIV[3] as base, I modified the routine for reading in posts on a WWIV SUB for InterBBS Data to call a rot47() function to code/decode text, which then writes a nicely formatted “laston.txt” file that gets displayed as part of WWIV’s bbs/lilo (logon-logoff) routine.

I was struggling a bit because the OpenDoors library that reads in the BBS Door Dropfile did not appear to output the user’s handle and the user’s location simultaneously using the different available dropfile formats that it supported. I resorted to simply using WWIV’s default CHAIN.TXT dropfile, reading the usernum from it, then reading in WWIV data files to get the user’s name/handle and location from the BBS itself.

The repository for this is at https://github.com/ericpareja/wwiv5lastcaller.

#xenos-wwivutils https://github.com/ericpareja/xenos-wwiv-utils