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echo: locsysop
to: Frank Malcolm
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1995-12-24 21:56:04
subject: PKTs & QWKs

PE> PE> FM> What does PKT2QWK (and PKTJOIN) do if you run out of
disk space? I

PE> PE> Old versions of pktjoin did nothing.  A new version which I gave
PE> PE> Dieter did full error checking.

PE> FM> Oh, should I freq something? Does it report via return codes?

PE> Probably.  Yes.

FM> I thought you wrote the thing? Or is the C syntax just going to take too
FM> long to figure out, if you haven't touched it for a few months?

I haven't looked at it for 6-12 months, and I'm not interested
either.

PE> PKT2QWK causes me to vomit every 10 lines of code.  If you want to
PE> vomit, feel free to take a look yourself.  Any C syntax you don't
PE> understand, just ask.  BFN.  Paul.

FM> If I did I'd do it in Pascal. Then I wouldn't vomit every 10 lines of
FM> code. I guess I'd use what you've done as, in effect, the spec.

I didn't write PKT2QWK, just modified and bug-fixed it.  I could
have written it from scratch in the time that I spent on it, but
I didn't know that until after the event.

FM> Merry xmas to you and Xiayi and the pigeons. I was watching some at Town

Ditto, god save the queen, etc.

FM> Hall today, having half an hour to spare. God they're stupid!

Anything in particular that they did?  BFN.  Paul.
@EOT:

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