Subj : Compression question
To   : Bob Jones
From : Bo Simonsen
Date : Sat Jul 12 2003 04:30 pm

Hello Bob!

Jul 11 17:03 03, Bob Jones wrote to Bo Simonsen:

 BS>> What does Confmail has to do with Squish (something i might have 
 BS>> missed).

 BJ> CONFMAIL is one of the early mail mashers.  I don't think it was part 
 BJ> of the original fido and fidonet software (actual code by Tom 
 BJ> Jennins), but it was one of the early available mail tosssers, and 
 BJ> used *.msg only.  

So far i know :-)

 BJ> Then OMM came along as part of Opus.  And then 
 BJ> Squish came along with Maximus.  Squish claimed at the time to use 
 BJ> the same route.cfg file that CONFMAIL (or was it also OMMM) used.  I 
 BJ> found that wasn't 100% true.....   

Oh now i understand what Squish has to do with confmail, thanks for the 
explaination :-)

 BJ> [Yes, at one time I *did* have fido and fidonet software loaded and 
 BJ> attempted to run on an old HeathKit H-100 -- Under Z-DOS (MS-DOS) 
 BJ> version 1 or 2, using the FOSSIL for the old H-100.  I ended up using 
 BJ> a different BBS package at that time.  This was back when the 
 BJ> nodelist was one dimentional and allowed a maximum of about 255 
 BJ> entries.  

Nearly before i was born :) (I was borned in 1983) :)

 BJ> My hard disk crashed before I could investigate further -- 
 BJ> and in the mean time, Fidonet had shut down adding nodes so that they 
 BJ> could introduce the two (or was it three) d nodelist format -- which 
 BJ> is when the 255 node limit was removed.... 

Yes then it was a 255 * 255 limit? Or did the nodenumber up to 32768 bee 
allowed? (afaik is this the limit now).

 BJ> When I finally got back 
 BJ> to hardware that I could use Fidonet with (with appropriate 
 BJ> resources) fidonet was up to three dimentional nodelists, and I found 
 BJ> that my area already had a local net.....  

Okey, then Europe got into fidonet too i guess :)

 BJ> The first fidonet node I 
 BJ> had (local) access to (#56, if I remember the number right -- run out 
 BJ> of the local HeathKit store) also went down about the time fidonet 
 BJ> went from 1-D to 2-D.]

Hmm.. i don't know HeathKit, something like D'Bridge?

Regards,
Bo

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