From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37420 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sean Rima Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Backend writing Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 19:04:07 +0100 Organization: There Can Only Be 1 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035172839 13796 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:00:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:00:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 23822 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2001 18:07:42 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (195.204.10.139) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 Aug 2001 18:07:42 -0000 Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by quimby.gnus.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA26442 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 20:07:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: tcob1.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.165.171.236 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 996862050 16436 194.165.171.236 (3 Aug 2001 18:07:30 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Aug 2001 18:07:30 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.104 Original-Lines: 15 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37420 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37420 I am very new to both elisp and gnus, but until recently I used Emacs/Gnus in conjuction with Fidogate/Inn to read Fidonet mail. Due to a change in my system setup this is no longer possible and I am thinking about writing a backend to read (and later) write Fidonet netmails. These are stored as *.msg files, which I can see as not being that difficult to read. What I seek is a detailed FAQ on writing backends. Anyone know where I could get one, part from the info files. Sean -- BBS and Fidonet News Portal at http://tcob1.uklinux.net ICQ 679813 Fidonet 2:263/950 Boring sig really