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general purpose cleint - anyone wants?
sometime back (in the glorious army days) i wanted to write my own
"irc-like" server/client. i ended up with some pathetic "clone" of the
irc client/server system (don't laugh, it does work nice). the only
"interesting" idea i involved in its development, was making the grammar
or the protocol defined in an external file. this makes it very easy to
modify the configuration file so the client will be able to talk to
different ASCII-based servers. Since it has some simple line-editting and
command line history too, i realized it can be used as a nice tool to
debug new ASCII servers - just edit the protocol files, and it'll talk to
SMTP servers, irc servers, NNTP servers (well, maybe not NNTP, since it's
not sophisticated enough), or other servers people create every now and then.
if anyone is interested, i'd make the source available. anyone has a good
use to such a thing ? perhaps ideas how it could be further developed
into a usefull tool ?
guy