Subj : Re: FMail 2.3.0.0 public beta release
To : Stephen Walsh
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Thu Mar 21 2024 08:10 am
Hi Stephen,
On 21 Mar 24 12:21, Stephen Walsh wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
about: "FMail 2.3.0.0 public beta release":
SW>>> pkt.zip & fmailm68k.zip in your inbound.... If you want to do
SW>>> something with M68K support... (This is after all just something
SW>>> todo on my part!)
WV>> Not really. ;-) I think there are more important things on the todo
WV>> list.
SW> That's understandable, I doubt you'd have a huge M68K user base... Mostly
SW> a count of 1... #-)
You are not using it! So 0. ;-)
SW>>> FMail-lnx-m68k-2.3.0.0-Beta20240317 - The Fast Echomail Processor
SW> [...]
SW>>> Packet is addressed to another node (256/49920); packet file:
SW>>> /home/vk3heg/fmail/inbound/f8d28501.pkt is renamed with
SW>>> extension: '.wrong_destination'
WV>> 256/49920 = 1/195, if you swap bytes. So a typical endianess
WV>> problem...
SW> I just looked through what andrew did to add M68K support in Talisman BBS
SW> and it's not just a few lines of code...
Making the pkt code endianness agnostic isn't a big task. My pktviewer code does it. I wrote it decades ago, so it would compile on both the Amiga and PC. ;-)
But doing so for the three supported messagebases (msg, hudson, jam), is a huge pain in the ass, because the code for these is all over the place.
