[drats_users] D-RATS 0.3.0-alpha3

[Dan Smith]

> I mean: "I'm offline and I need local area maps: I use map downloader
> and I've got maps for offline operations." But if I dump the cacheI
> miss every map? So I cannot identify offline maps from online maps...
> I can download lots of maps and fill all disk space. And I cannot save
> permanently local area maps from "temporary maps".

Okay, I see what you mean.  The thing is, there is no distinction
between "local" and "remote" maps.  Every single tile that is fetched
gets cached locally for a variety of reasons.

I suppose that I could try to come up with something that is the reverse
of the map downloader which would let you clear anything not within X
miles of a center point...

Do people actually have trouble with the amount of space the maps take
up on disk?  I have 550 tiles cached on my system from a variety of
places, including my entire local area and it only takes up 116MB, which
is almost unnoticeable to me.

> Last but not the least: I need to make my D-RATS station a BBS
> repository for friends, so I need to upload bulletin and private
> messages from a BBS and store them into my form folders and then
> forward to friends:
>   -  personals msgs if they are "heared on the air";
>   -  bulletins "on demand/by request".

I know, I'm working on this.  The move from "forms" to "messages" is
hopefully going to facilitate this.  I plan to add something like a
"remote folder" in the folder list which will allow you to check for
remote messages on another system like an IMAP folder.  I haven't worked
out all the details of this yet and am concentrating on getting 0.3
usable as a whole before I get too far into the business of adding
significant extra features like that.

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