Hello andrew.

06 Dec 03 10:17, you wrote to me:

 ac> Thu 2003-12-04 17:48, Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1) wrote to andrew clarke:

 RT>> Well, it seems that TimEd does not want to compile on SuSE 8.0,
 RT>> along with MsgEd, and a number of the Husky utils, TimEd compiles
 RT> RT>> fine on my Debian 3.0r0 system, it just finished, and it
 RT>> works, tho as you point out, it is a moot point on my Debian
 RT>> system, because it runs the BBS, MBSE BBS, which uses a JAM
 RT>> msgbase.

 ac> Well, I think XMSGAPI/SMAPI should be able to read JAM bases without
 ac> much trouble.  The problem is that while reading mail you may be
 ac> tempted to reply to a message, writing to the base, and almost
 ac> certainly corrupting your JAM base in the process.



Why they are called editors, and not readers, I suppose ...

Which does not help me much, but ...

 RT>> Could you supply instructions on how I might compile TimEd with
 RT>> SMAPI, or a pointer to existing instructions, please.

 ac> I don't really recommend compiling with SMAPI because they've changed
 ac> their API between versions so I'm not really sure if it's going to
 ac> compile or not, depending on which version of SMAPI you have
 ac> installed.

I'd like to try, and see what happens, it works, it works, it doesn't, well 
tough luck.

 ac> Instead, download the latest XMSGAPI snapshot [1] (or do a CVS
 ac> checkout [2]) and follow the instructions in timed/doc/INSTALL.

 ac> [1] http://blizzard.dnsalias.org/fidonet/xmsgapi/xmsgapi-2003-06-09.ta
 ac> r.gz (164 KB)

 ac> [2] Run cvs -r -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs{at}blizzard.dnsalias.org:/cvsroot
 ac> co xmsgapi

What I have currently done.

Thanks,

Russell

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