Subj : Dupe checking
To   : Hans Beekhuizen
From : Bo Simonsen
Date : Sat Apr 10 2004 11:40 pm

Hans Beekhuizen wrote to Bo Simonsen about ''Re: Dupe checking'':

BS>>>> We did have some major problems with dupechecking and the 3.03b
BS>>>> release of maximus, they are fixed in the CVS version.
HB>>> Aha :))
BS>> We are about to release a more stable version of maximus/squish/sqafix.

HB> That's good :))

:-)

BS>>>> 1. Use the CVS version
HB>>> I just installed it, so will find out tomorrow morning if this
HB>>> problem has been solved.
BS>> Okay, I'm 99% sure it's. :) Squish is so stable, so I've fixed all
BS>> compiler warnings in it! ;)

HB> Of course, there were no new file announcements today...  I'lllet
HB> you know as soom as I know something more, be it good or bad.

Greate.

BS>>>> 2. Only do dupechecking on Header. In squish.cfg
HB>>> Except for the date, the headers in these messages are all the
HB>>> same.  Would it work then?
BS>> I'm not sure, I didn't get mutch dupe by running Squish without msgid
BS>> check, and right now there are still people which is using
BS>> Software which
BS>> seems to be buyed at antique-market, which doesn't set @MSGID.
BS>> So Squish
BS>> will only do dupechecking on Header, and it's not caused any
BS>> dupes to me.

HB> Well, I think yhat question is academic now that the problem is
HB> solved.

Indeed it's what I'm trying to say is that Squish is not juging many dupes if
you run without MSGID testing.

BS>>>> Unfortionally can't I send you a patch
HB>>> That's no problem.  I have ADSL so don't have to worry about those
HB>>> nasty ticks in the telephone :)
BS>> Okay. :) I've cable but it's the same princip.

HB> ADSL came first in this village.  I moved to it when my ISDN card
HB> died about 2.5 years ago.

Aha.

HB>>> For myself I'm happy with mbse [a Linux-native
HB>>> all-in-one package] and GoldED+.
BS>> I see. :) I know MBSE it's good software, but there is some things I
BS>> doesn't like about it.

HB> It's still changing every day.  Enhancements and bug fixes.  The
HB> author is very keen.  Usually when you report a bug it will be
HB> fixed within a couple of days. When I started playing with Linux
HB> and thinking about Fido software for it, I could not find anything
HB> I liked until I met mbse.

There are fundemental things I doesn't like about MBSE:

1. It's using JAM, anyhow I could live with that.
2. It's using UNIX accounts for users (I can't live with that).
3. It's uses Binary configuration files (I can't live with that).

  - Maximus is more smart it's "compiles" a plain ASCII configuration file
    and take it from there.

HB> There were a lot of problems with it
HB> then!  I got a reward for reporting the most bugs :))  But I had
HB> been running Maximus and Squish under MS-Dos since March 1992!

Okay. :) It's good and very stable software even on UNIX! :)

BS>> And if I ran software made by others, I can't figure out what to
BS>> program on. ;)

HB> I Seem not to get to do much "private" programming these days.  And
HB> anyway, I am anCbete, so would not be a great help.  My main
HB> languages are Fortran, Pascal, COBOL and Abal.

Aha, I do Pascal too, but not mutch latest, mostly C. :)

I allways wanted to learn Fortran but I'm not studying a place where they are
using that.

Bo

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