Hi Paul,

On 02 Nov 16 23:20, Paul Quinn wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "Fmail updates":

 WV>> Except for the configuration program. But I have no idea what that
 WV>> will look like yet. ;)

 PQ> Aw, c'mon... we're big boys now.  We can deal with text file based
 PQ> configurations.  :)

 PQ> Can you export a text config file from your current Win/32 version?  (Just
 PQ> asking as I don't know.)  Perhaps use that as the starting point?[shrug]

There is an export function, but that leaves out the details of the
configuration. And it's more ment as a "pretty" print option for
humans, not as configuration...

Anyway, converting to a text based configuration isn't as trivial as it
sounds. It isn't like the configuration is read at the start and (possibly)
saved at the end of the program. You must remember the program was
developed in the DOS age when available memory was (very) limited. So for
instance the area configuration isn't read completely into memory, just the
parts that are needed at the time. And it is constantly updated during
tossing with for instance the last tossed date. To change this behaviour
you have to rewrite large parts of the code.

And have a look at the structures used in the configuration files, there are a lot:

https://sourceforge.net/p/fmail/code/ci/CodeBlocks/tree/fmstruct.h

Wilfred.

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