Subj : Apoint JAM format
To   : August Abolins
From : Martin Foster
Date : Sun May 05 2019 10:52:00

Hello August!

On 26.04.19 at 20:25, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 MF>>>> I thought I'd box clever<g> and convert one of my existing message
 MF>>>> areas from the proprietary AMF format to JAM.

 MF>>>> Everything appeared fine until I exited and restarted APoint..

 AA> I believe you were tackling a JAM format issue with Apoint back in 2003:

 AA> ----[begin]----
 AA> From: Martin Foster
 AA> To: Russell Tiedt
 AA> Date: 2003-01-14 09:12:32
 AA> Subject: APoint

 AA> Yes it does BUT I'm sorry to say that it's flawed. APoint will handle a
 AA> JAM message base that APoint itself has created but if you hook up APoint
 AA> to an already existing JAM message base created by another program, it
 AA> will read the message base just fine but it will not write to it
 AA> correctly. This has been a long-standing problem and I hope the author(s)
 AA> will fix it for the next release.

 AA> -+- Msged/BeOS 6.0.2
 AA>  + Origin: Bitz-Box (2:250/501.2)
 AA> ----[end]----



 AA> Was Apoint at 1.25 back then?



 AA>   ../|ug

 AA> -+- OpenXP 5.0.38
 AA>  + Origin: From somewhere in Hastings County, Ontario (2:221/1.58)


On 03.05.19 at 17:53, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 AA>>> So.. "Apoint JAM base = Proprietary + Fails to display Quantity of
 AA>>> messages in Area list.

 MF>> Errrrrrrm, no, APoint AMF message base = proprietary.

 AA> But way back in the day, you wrote that Apoint does not work with pre-
 AA> exisiting JAM message bases.

Yes, that's correct.

 AA> Which led you to believe that Apoint utilized a proprietary
 AA> version of its own JAM.

Don't think it did.

 AA> Will WinPoint work with the standard JAM produced from another source, or
 AA> will it barf?

WinPoint doesn't support JAM at all.

 MF>> ...but the messages are still there when you go into
 MF>> the message list.

 AA> But who will want to embrace Apoint if it behaves like that?

Probably nobody.

 AA> To me, that's "broken".

You say "broken", I say "cosmetic" :-)

Regards,
Martin

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