Wintermute_BBS<p>For those of you who are interested in my latest project, <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/dxbbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dxbbs</span></a> you may like to know that I've done some code cleanup, renamed existing variables and introduced new ones, especially for the message base files. this is in preparation of handling multiple message bases.</p><p>I've also implemented "message flagging/unflagging" in combination with the msg_purge routine. The latter takes some time to process all messages since it actually creates a re-indexd copy of all files for the selected message base. </p><p>So I thought it would make sense to "flag" messages for deletion, effectively excluding these from being listed or read and then have the option to physically delete them and re-arrange the message file during a maintenance window, where there is enough planned downtime for such an action.</p><p>Let me note that the code is by no means an example for proper <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/forth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forth</span></a> programming. I'm not there yet, but in case you are interested, here's the link:</p><p><a href="https://gitlab.com/ufud-org/rc2014-dxforth/-/tree/main/bbs?ref_type=heads" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gitlab.com/ufud-org/rc2014-dxf</span><span class="invisible">orth/-/tree/main/bbs?ref_type=heads</span></a></p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/z80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>z80</span></a> <br><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bbs</span></a> <br><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/rc2014" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rc2014</span></a> <br><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/cpm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cpm</span></a> <br><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/dxforth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dxforth</span></a> <br><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocoding</span></a></p>