5. To-Do List

The following are things on the author's 'to-do' list that are being considered for this or a future release of TNOS. These may eventually be done, but not necessarily by the next release.

1. Finish porting the Packet driver into the new MSDOS sources
   At the moment, the Packet driver is not supported for the DJGPP compiles. Shouldn't take too long to get ported, though....
2. Complete the spec and coding of the non-IP HTTP PBBS interface
3. Investigate incorporating into TNOS a userfs extension
   This would allow *any* Linux (and possibly other Unix) program to open a file and access certain TNOS features. For instance a terminal program like minicom could open a device:

           /tnos/connect/lan/k0zxf/ko4ks-1/813044
   

   and do the equivalent to 'connect lan k0zxf ko4ks-1 813044'.

   You could incorporate a copy of your current usage stats into a email message in Pine, by simply inserting a file named /tnos/stats/usage/general.

4. Add capability to allow use of OS commands
   This includes finishing the incomplete 'pipe' command in the Unix release. Due to the obvious restrictions of MS-DOS (memory, etc.), this WILL be considered for Unix version only.
5. Add better support for PBBS<->Internet mail address translation
   The 'translate' file and improved handling of aliases is a START, but more work needs to be done here. Maybe a 'translate.out' file...
6. Still better handling of AUTO/LOCAL ax25 routes
   Improvement by making an ax25 route entry part of the connection block, using this unique AUTO route for this connection only.
7. Support (optimization) for ncurses 1.9.x for performance
8. Color support output to Unix console
   The various color commands don't work with Unix and curses. Annoying, but just possible unexpected output. No crashes.
9. Consider adding a 'R x - x' syntax to the BBS read command
10. Consider adding IP MASQ support
11. Add code to allow a TIP socket type, for use with LL Modems
12. Tweek the WPages code a bit
    Need to improve the code that insures that the wpagebbs entries are correct, of the proper length, and actually look like hier addresses. Also, make the expiring of WPages files less fragile if the file has become corrupted.
13. Check into duplicate entries in the WP files
    While not harmful, the WPages routines SHOULD be overwritting existing entries, NOT creating new ones.
14. Consider adding intelligence to convers links
    The idea being that if there are no incoming links, and no local users, that the remote outgoing link would be brought down until this changed.
15. Consider added auto7+ detection