Subj : Impulse Linux versus Impulse DOS.
To   : joseph larsen
From : mark lewis
Date : Tue Mar 01 2016 09:43 am


01 Mar 16 03:08, you wrote to All:

 jl> Ok. I copied all of my *.BRD and *.MIX files over to my DOS version of
 jl> Impulse. I was able to read the messages without them being garbled.
 jl> I'm not sure what this means.

wait! what? are you saying that your linux compiled binary cannot read those 
messages but the original DOS one has no problems with them?? how are you 
compiling? are you trying to do 16bit, 32bit or 64bit?? can you be more 
explicit about "the messages being garbled"?? got pics?

 jl> Maybe, that I need to convert the incoming bundles to DOS format? I
 jl> tried issuing the "d2u -D" command to the incoming packets, and now
 jl> they are marked as "bad." Does anyone know how to convert the bundles
 jl> after they are extracted? Or, would it be easier just to
 jl> rewrite/convert the source code to handle Unix format files? I'm not
 jl> sure how to do this. Any and all help is appreciated.

there is no conversion to be done... PKTs are binary and you don't convert them 
like that any more than you convert an exe file like that... what are you 
trying to convert the PKTs to?? the tosser ""converts"" them when it strips off 
the PKT header and then imports each message in the PKT into the message 
base... that's not even a conversion, really...

)\/(ark

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