On (19 Sep 94) Paul Edwards wrote to Keith Richardson...



 KR> i've been using ppoint on your board for the best part of a year now,

 KR> without any hassles. in the last 2 weeks though, i've had the shitter

 KR> blown out of it 3 times. one was a tubruk test message, one was a

 PE> local

 KR> sysop message, i dont know what the other one was. i aint changed

 KR> anything, so what has changed at your end?



 PE> zcalc.c, zcalc.c, zcalc.c in public_domain.



 PE> If you insist on running crappy software that can't handle

 PE> messages of 35k in size, well what can I say except

 PE> WHERE'S YER BLOODY CAPS KEY?



well, if thats all you can say, you may as well shut up.



 PE> What mailprocessor does ppoint use actually, is it squish?  If

 PE> so, get with the times, man!  1.10 has already hit the streets.



it uses it's own, the only externals are the comms prog (bink), the

editor (ezequote), and the spellchecker (if you care to use one).



 PE> How would you like to switch to TinyPoint, and maybe document

 PE> it too.  Dieter's meant to be doing it, but what can I say

 PE> except 

 PE> SLACKARSES R US



no thanks, i have been mulling over the idea of writing a point all of

my very own. it would be a windows prog (what else would anyone want to

write for?), and use a standard database such as the paradox engine for

the messagebase. anyone could then write extensions or additions using

the standard available tools. i suppose that i could use access as it is

designed to integrate into the environment (and we have a developers kit

at work).it all really depends on how quickly i can climb the learning

curve (and how much time i waste on e-mail (-8 )



                        Keith

 



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