Bill Shaughnessy wrote in a message to Jack Stein:
 BS> Jack Stein wrote in a message to Bill Shaughnessy:
JS> Bill, rather than fuss around about different versions of
JS> OPUS floating around, why not do a CRC check with Stu's and
JS> Willies and see if they are the same.  I think you will find
JS> they are exactly the same, but, if Stu's is different, and
JS> allows non-complient netmail, some of us might want to give
JS> it a shot.   
 BS>      The original question was whether or not there might be
 BS> several versions of OPUS floating around.  I responded
 BS> affirmatively, because I've suspected that for a long time. 
Yes, and you used your connections with Stu and Willie as the basis for that 
suspicion.
 BS> As far as running CRC's, I don't know that it really would
 BS> tell us anything.  
It would tell you if Stu and Willie were or were not running the exact same 
copy of OPUS.EXE, and it seems they are, as someone did this test, Willie I 
believe. So you are back to square one, and for sure this suspicion of yours 
has no basis, which all of us suspected.  We can now move on to other 
suspicions.
 BS>      Back in the days when I was running OPUS, I did have
 BS> some problems, and I did manage to correct them.  My
 BS> investigations at that time did strongly indicate a problem
 BS> in OPUS, and I reported that problem in this very echo.
Yes, but I recall none of us suspected the problem was in OPUS, rather in 
you're hardware, or modem setup or something, but not a bug in OPUS.  Is my 
recollection correct?  
The only problem I have with OPUS is it can be hung when certain callers 
screw up a D/L, this is very rare, and must be something stupid that only a 
few callers manage, I don't know if its OPUS, my set-up or what, but it's 
rare enough, I don't care much, and I devised a recovery scheme that works.
 BS>      If you still want to see some CRC's, I'll be glad to
 BS> run them, but for NET 129 (our Net) only.  
I don't care about the tests, I think Willie and Stu had the exact same copy 
of OPUS, although proof is in the pudding, and Willie I believe ran the 
check, and they were the same.
 BS> the needs outside of Net 129.  I'll even go so far as to run
 BS> some CRC's for Willie, even though he is on his way to
 BS> becoming a traitor to OPUS by switching to BinklerTerm.  
I don't think that qualifies him as an OPUS traitor... Most OPUS sysops run 
Bink, only the truly lazy, like me, run barefoot.  Unlike many OPUS sysops, I 
have zero loyalty to OPUS, I only run it because it works great, no other 
reason on earth, thats the same reason I run OS/2, it's great...IBM means 
nothing to me, the OPUS developers mean nothing to me (other than respect for 
there product)  Those that run OPUS out of love for Winn or Doug or whoever, 
so be it, I'm just not one of them, and I really doubt Willie is either.
I should by rights be running MAX, but, again, too lazy.
I may soon be the only guy in Fido that runs barefoot and *.msg base... the 
only Politically Correct sysop in Fido, go figure as they say:-)
 BS> We can discuss this more in our local echo if you desire. 
I'll type just about anywhere, until I get bored or yelled at...
For sure you brought some life into the ye old meadow...
                                              Jack 
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