Subj : Re: MultiMail
To   : William McBrine
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Wed Oct 09 2002 06:33 am

Hi William.

06-Oct-02 21:03:58, William McBrine wrote to Ken Hrynchuk


  -=> Ken Hrynchuk wrote to William McBrine <=-

 Good stuff BTW, a while ago, I hacked around the prompt to save/
 KH>> kill existing replies at startup, in this version. Here's what I
 KH>> did:

 KH>> Offset   New    Old

 KH>> 0000C407: B8    E8 0000C408: 01    34 0000C409: 00    F7
 KH>> 0000C40C: 10    0E

 KH>> I've been using it for five months, with the above modifications,
 KH>> with no apparent side effects. Can you foresee any problems with
 KH>> the above

 WM> You'd know better than I, since apparently you've disassembled it,
 WM> and I haven't. Without disassembling it myself, which I don't plan
 WM> to do, I have no idea what the above even says.

 WM> Not that I haven't done this sort of thing in the past, myself.
 WM> But since MultiMail is open source, if anyone wants to modify it,
 WM> I recommend just changing the source and recompiling it. Though I
 WM> did notice that you're using the XT version, and unfortunately
 WM> that's the only one I've built with a compiler that's not freely
 WM> available.

hmm, could it be ported to Turbo-c 2.01
(available to download for $0 from Borland.com)

 WM> The XT build is also, coincidentally, the only one with some
 WM> manual assembly-level optimization;

IIRC an early tasm is the same price.

 -=> Bye <=-

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