Just pushed my new project repository to gh. https://github.com/ericpareja/wwiv5autosend/
This is my first attempt at reimplementing Cris McRae's AutoSend for WWIV. So far, I've gotten two use cases working: posting subscription lists for each sub hosted here, and posting a list of subs hosted here in a message.
Another sample screen from the new WWIV5 AutoSend. Here is a subscription list for one of the Subs hosted on my BBS.
Someone asked me why I still bother writing tools for BBS software that hardly anyone uses anymore. I just smiled and told them that I still use it, so the tool is mainly for me. But the truth is that there are more than a few others who still use old software like this because they like continuing to use old software. There are countless others who use old computers because they find old computers fun.
I've essentially finished the /subslist option for my WWIV AutoSend rewrite. I'm currently tackling the Yellow Pages posting of subs hosted here. Not gonna lie, the original WWIV AutoSend by Cris McRae was a comprehensive tool with so many details covering different aspects of automated Sub management, I am gonna try my best to make my ground-up re-implementation as close to it as I can make it.
I wrote a basic subscription list generation utility for WWIVnet BBSes in C++, with AutoSend as inspiration. Here's a sample screenshot.
There are a lot of interesting tools you can make for your BBS if you look hard enough. They can be old tools that no longer work with the new BBS, or new tools.
Making ListPlus switchable in WWIV part 3
In a previous post, I modified the Main Defaults screen to display the ListPlus Enabled switch status. This status simply reads the variable lp_options and shows whether the cfl_enable bit is on or off, which we had defined in an earlier post. I'll write about what I did to give the WWIV BBS user the ability to toggle that bit. Since I want ListPlus to be available to users who have ANSI enabled, it makes sense to make the toggle as well as the switch visible to users who have okansi() = [โฆ]https://aliens.ph/blog/2026/01/05/making-listplus-switchable-in-wwiv-part-3/
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