Hi Simon,

Simon Avery to Paul Walker, 10 Apr 99 11:40.

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 SA> Not seen that. It makes sense though, since much of the sysops time is
 SA>  spent re-entering system details in various utils where a common pool
 SA> would be much nicer. Any chance of a look-see?

Will attach, or you can download from http://www.tichy.de/

Knowing the frequency with which you use the internet, though, I'll attach 
it ;)

 PW>> Spaghetti is easier to work with than the JAM api; extracting a
 PW>> usable set of structures and explanations of what the elements do
 PW>> is another matter entirely.
 SA> BTDTGTTS. Still not got a /reliable/ routine to read JAMbases. (Can
 SA> write fine!)

Odd, I found it much harder the other way around. 

 PW>> If anyone has the equivalent of the JAM API for Squish handy, by
 PW>> the way, the email address is below... ;)
 SA> SMAPI - didn't I say that already?

Yes, but you missed the point completely. :-) I'm not going to use any 
squish API. I want structures. The JAM api comes with structures reasonably 
well documented, in jam.doc. 

The Squish one doesn't - you use one of the APIs, or hack through the code 
to find it. I refuse to do 1, and 2 doesn't appeal, so I don't implement 
Squish at the moment.

 PW>> Still haven't done those. What's the format for echolist.na?
 SA> Something like: (And anyone feel free to correct me)
 SA> B5_UK                UK chat about Babylon 5

Aha. Easy enough.

 SA> description. Writing is easier obviously, but it would be nice if
 SA> anyone could butt in and let us know if there /is/ a definative offset
 SA> for the description.

Doesn't look like it, so it's a nice simple printf 

  Paul              (p.r.walker{at}warwick.ac.uk)                 

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