Paul, at 08:29 on Sun, May 28 1995, you wrote ...

DD>>> Golly, which version did you look at?  I am running 2.02 
DD>>> here without any unexplained phenomena.

PE>> 2.01wb.  There were numerous problems, which people here 
PE>> can verify, 

DD>> AH ... not configured too well . .  .

PE> Nice try, not remotely correct.  They didn't create FH? for
PE> nothing (set the maximum number of file handles under OS/2).
PE> I can send you my entire LOCSYSOP messagebase if you want to 
PE> wade through all the problems.  I'm not interested myself.  
PE> It's 8 meg uncompressed, so presumably that will be 3 meg 
PE> compressed.  It's my longest running uncorrupt area (LOCUSER
PE> got corrupted many times thanks to SQFIX32P being a 
PE> disaster. I don't have the source code to it either.

PE> [later] actually, I had a check.  The file handle problem 
PE> was causing personal.ndx to not get created, even though I 
PE> was using maxfh or whatever, it wasn't good enough.  The use 
PE> of TZ was not documented, it kept on beeping at me whenever 
PE> my modem screwed up, I had to resort to sticky-taping up my 
PE> speaker [incidentally, my speaker is disconnected completely
PE> these days].  And I got a trap-e sometimes, which didn't 
PE> help when I went on holiday!  Also, there was indeed times 
PE> when people would lose their lastread pointers and had to 
PE> reset them themselves.  I actually abandoned the BBS 
PE> completely when squish kept on abending (admittedly that was 
PE> not maximus, I had a swag of problems with Squish too).  The 
PE> reason for squish abending on that fatal day was that I had 
PE> set my # of dupes to 0, but I didn't remember that, but 
PE> squish obviously didn't like it.  I switched to Tobruk at 
PE> that stage, because at least I had the source code to do 
PE> something about it. However there were bugs in it too, and I 
PE> figured out the squish problem before I had fixed the bugs in 
PE> tobruk, and I have never gone live with Tobruk because it 
PE> doesn't handle out-of-spec messages properly and I haven't 
PE> gotten around to fixing it.

PE>> and that just make me sick so I'm not interested.  
PE>> At least I can do something about Binkley bugs, which are 
PE>> far less common anyway.

DD>> Oh, what about the ones in MSGED 3.1a?

PE> I can do something about any MSGED 3.1a bug that I am
PE> experiencing.  I can't with Maximus though.  I can with
PE> Binkley.  Squish is the weak link.  BFN.  Paul.

Hmmmmm sounds like problems in the OS/2 version.  Damn, I am gearing up to
convert the BBS from DOS to OS/2  (I better hang on to the DOS version in
case of emergency)

David

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