Text 62534, 66 rader
Skriven 2010-09-26 13:06:12 av James Bradley (1:342/77.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Ed Vance
Ärende: QWK REP blues..
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-=> ED VANCE wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS <=-

 AA> EV> Do You use SEMPOINT now?

 AA>discovered that it could store all the messages in a
 AA>unified database format
 AA>In other words, I always had access to ANY message at
 AA>any time, and I didn't
 AA>have to worry about knowing which "packet" it belonged to.

 EV> Your comment above about You "stored all the messages in a database"
 EV> had my mind thinking of "how large of a hard drive did You have"
 EV> back when You used SEMPOINT to hold Many Many .QWK packets?

For the record, Blue Wave (BW) used to do the same for me. I don't recall if it
was a tack-on program that did the task, or if using it at the BBS machine
locally gave it the ability. It occurs to me there must have been a quota
limit, and a way to archive messages inside the "database" for
perpetuity/eventual HD failure.

 EV> I keep tabs on the text file size so it doesn't get too large for LIST
 EV> or EDIT to use.

 EV> As the file gets to 500k or 600k I will start another text file using
 EV> the same name but I increase the number at the end of the filename one
 EV> count.

Saving a post to text file should automatically fill in the echo tag as the
file name, no? (Something like "WIN95.123") You chose to append to the same
file?

 EV> I just recemtly changed the character used at the beginning of the
 EV> Tagline line to see if it helped James Bradley when He wanted to
 EV> "Swipe" one of my "Stolen" Taglines.

 EV> I will have to find out how SEMPOINT's Tagline line is configured and
 EV> get back with James for His comments to see if He has any trouble
 EV> "Swipeing" Taglines from SEMPOINT messages!

Ow... Don't do so on *my* account! I *just* found out, a standardized tagline
opening with an ellipse "... " isn't being picked up as a tagline either on
this installation/version of MultiMail. <Headscratcher> Short of running a
Windows emulator on top of GNU/Linux; that's why I was tickled to see another
OLMR was available for the OS.

 EV> Last night I got it from Shawns TINYSBBS, I'll run it through my
 EV> Virus/Spyware scanning routine I normally do then I'll Instal it.

 EV> Look for SEMPOINT above the Origin line.

 EV> ---
 EV>  = SLMR 2.1a #T348 = -rw-rw-rw- : the file permission of the Beast.

Keep workin' on it. <L> Really, as long as *you* are comfortable using the
program, is the *only* criteria that makes *any* OLMR *the* best.

I LOVE the new tag, BTW. Nice to know I didn't steer you too wrong. You even
allot for the "Directory/Link" spot! Now, back to pounding it into *my*
tagfile. Alas!!!! <ROTF>


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