Subj : Perl::JAM (was: txt2pkt.pl)
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Johan Billing
Date : Sun Feb 20 2005 02:20 pm

Maurice Kinal -> Johan Billing wrote:

 JB>> What do you mean by DOS-think?

 MK> Things like unneeded extra linefeeds, wasteful storage such as 16-bit
 MK> integers when an 8-bit character would have been fine, etc.  A lack of
 MK> creativity as well but that is a different can of worms.

I would say that having a binary format at all is DOS-think. :-) Surely both 
storage and transport formats of fidonet messages could be optimized a bit, but 
I doubt that it would be worth the effort.

By the way, I uploaded a slighly improved version of the module to the server. 
The main difference is that it now uses Time::Zone instead of
Time::Timezone as I think that the TimeDate package is much more common than 
the Time-modules package.

There are some problems with file locking, though. The only portable file 
locking mechanism in perl is the flock function. It should work fine under 
Windows and OS/2, but Linux has two entirely separate file locking mechanisms, 
flock and fcntl, and most other programs use fcntl which is a pain to use in 
Perl and cannot be used in a portable way...

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