Subj : MakeNL and how it works?
To : mark lewis
From : Eric Renfro
Date : Sun Sep 06 2015 04:35 pm
Re: MakeNL and how it works?
By: mark lewis to Eric Renfro on Sun Sep 06 2015 01:46 pm
ML> 06 Sep 15 11:25, you wrote to Bill McGarrity:
BM>>> Why? Just let it to the attach and then sbbsecho will convert it
BM>>> when you run fidoout. You're making things way to complicated for
BM>>> yourself. :)
ER>> heh.. I guess I still don't entirely trust sbbsecho yet, especially
ER>> for file-related stuff. :)
ML> in the past, there wasn't any real call for such... most folks using sbbs
ML> and the like just didn't do those things... some might have wanted to but
ML> there was no real call for it over all the users...
ER>> FREQ's fail, because it's using arcmail methods that obviously won't
ER>> work over binkd, for example.
ML> that's a pretty easy addition to make... and these days, a few voices
ML> asking are heard more than may have been in the past... especially with
ML> the packages' user count getting smaller...
True enough. I just know Rob Swindle doesn't exactly like working on things for
SBBSEcho. hehe. It was kinda left on his plate to maintain, but he does, and
I'm honestly glad he does.
Back and fourth, I reported an issue where netmail was set to not be kill when
sent, because BSO style it doesn't matter, but I wanted to keep some kind of
history of what Netmail I was sending so I could look back on it. Problem was,
sbbsecho would continually re-send the same netmail because it wasn't looking
for the "Sent" flag in it. After some deliberating, testing, and compiling, and
even some of my own code I slopped together to fix a little tiny bug based on
his own code changes that caused an even more severe issue out of it, we solved
the problem.
I'm hoping we can do something similar for the FREQ for BSO. It's not much, but
it /can/ be useful from time to time just the same. I already submitted the
issue to the forums on DOVE-net about it, and just waiting. It's Labor Day
Weekend so a lot of people are out and about, enjoying their time off. hehe.
Including Rob, as I just noticed on Facebook earlier. hehe
