Subj : Re: topics.. let's hear
To   : Mark Lewis
From : Dale Shipp
Date : Tue Apr 09 2019 12:59 am

 -=> On 04-07-19  22:28,  Mark Lewis <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about topics.. let's hear <=-

 DS>>> And if Maximus cannot produce a QWKE packet, then I cannot use it. I
 DS>>> am fully committed to my Maximus/Squish system.
 
 ML>> i understand that... my thinking was that the specs are available as
 ML>> is the  source code to maximus... my quick look over the QWKE specs
 ML>> seemed to indicate that it is as easy an addition to make as they say
 ML>> it is... adding it to maximus could be very straight forward...
 
 DS> But has anyone done that?  If so, I'd like to know.

 ML> i don't know... it is why i kinda pointed it out to you... 
 ML> my thinking was with your past experience with QWK and 
 ML> repairing the y2k flaw you might be able to add it 
 ML> yourself...

I did that out of absolute necessity -- but I would not call it
programming in any real sense.  What I did was to dig into the format
and figure out how to correct it using what was essentially a batch file
band-aid.  It was later on that someone else (RB) dug into the code of
BlueWave and figured out how to patch it in a real way there.  His was a
much more elegant and simple solution.

 ML> but i don't know your programming capabilities...

Less now than they were a quarter century ago.

 ML> i know mine are waning and i keep having to
 ML> dig into newer languages for so many things today...

My facility and knowledge with computer languages was always much better
than it ever was with human languages.  Over the course of my career, I
think that I was fluent in perhaps a half dozen or more computer
languages, some of which were only known in limited circles.  I have
only heard the names of many such that have popped up over the past two
decades since I retired.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)



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