Subj : Slmr.Doc
To   : Tom Laermans
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Fri Jul 21 2000 04:21 am

Hi Tom.

12-Jul-00 21:27:14, Tom Laermans wrote to Jasen Betts


 TL> Hi Jasen ...

 TL> At 05-Jul-00 17:52:50, Jasen Betts wrote to Tom Laermans about
 TL> Slmr.Doc...

 JB>>>> Yeah, I've got a prog somewhere that builds QWK packets...
 TL>>> Not too difficult, since a QWK is just a zip file containing
 TL>>> some DAT files :)
 JB>> true... the tricky bit is getting the data into the dat files
 JB>> with
 TL> Ahaa! :)

 JB>> all the fields in the right place and the indexes working,
 JB>> without having it die horribly where it encounters really long
 JB>> messages
 TL> Hmm. Basic supports unlimited-length-strings, right? so no
 TL> problem?

Both the dos versions I have limit you to 64K (or less) total strings.

I haven't played with chipmunk basic much (a GPL BASIC interpreter written
in ISO/GNU pascal - it came with my old linux distro) HMM, I've got the
p2c source, and djgpp - I could compile it for dos...

Realistically, no version of basic supports unlimited strings, most stop
somewhere before 2^64 characters, I've seen one that limited you to
8 chrarcters... :)

 -=> Bye <=-

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