Subj : Apoint JAM format
To   : Martin Foster
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun May 05 2019 09:57:08

Hello Martin!

On 5/5/2019, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

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

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

AA>> [snippity..]

AA>> .. but if you hook up APoint to an already existing JAM message base 
AA>> created by another program, it will read the message base just fine 
AA>> but *it will not write to it correctly*. 

AA>> [..snip]

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

MF> Don't think it did.

OK..  you didn't say *exaclty* that.  ;)  But..  Apoint's JAM is not playing 
nicely with the JAM spec, and breaks existing files.  Plus, it deleted all the 
messages from it's *own* build after I added a new message with SemPoint.

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

MF> WinPoint doesn't support JAM at all.

Oops.. sorry.  I got dizzy for a sec.  LOL.    I meant Apoint.


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

...and probably *only* if you don't add any new messages, either by edit, or 
incoming by toss?

AA>> But who will want to embrace Apoint if it behaves like that?
MF> Probably nobody.

OK.. here's a test.  Convert a base to JAM, add a few messages with itself, 
then convert it back to AMF.   Is everything kosher?


AA>> To me, that's "broken".
MF> You say "broken", I say "cosmetic" :-)

Noted.  But, in your own words way at the top: "wll not write to it correcty".  
  Cosmetic?  More makeup can't coverup that serious problem!  LOL


.../|ug

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