ac>>> AREAS.BBS and SQUISH.CFG are supported.  Also, JAM is not
 ac>>> supported.  If you want JAM support (which is broken and may
 ac>>> corrupt your message base!) remove -DMSGAPI_NO_JAM from the
 ac>>> Makefile and recompile.

 ml>> when do you expect to have reading binary config files and
 ml>> jam support working? is there a timeline?

 RT> Andrew has said he does not plan to fix the JAM support in
 RT> SMAPI,

i seem to remember reading that, too ;-(

 RT> which I think is a pity as most of the Fido BBS packages under
 RT> Linux support the JAM msgbase, and it is only the Husky project
 RT> which has proper and working Squish support. Only Linux BBS
 RT> that I know that supports Squish is Mystic BBS, and James Coyle
 RT> the developer of Mystic BBS wants to drop Squish support in
 RT> favour of JAM.

yes, i've been aware of this stuff, too... i remember that many
"howled" that JAM was designed based on squish... i'm not privy
to the internals of how the JAMm team came up with the JAM format but it
might be that this is/was true... in any case, JAM has more
"features" and is a bit easier, in my mind, to work with...

 RT> ELE BBS might also support Squish, but I am not certain, no
 RT> other possibilities I can think off.

i'm not sure about ELE since it is a RemoteAccess clone... AIR, ELE's not
even compatible with the latest version(s) of RA... only v2.02 or 2.5...

 RT> For the above reasons I hope Andrew changes his mind.

you're not the only one... my entire system is JAM... several hundred
bases... i've a few SDM (*.MSG) bases but not for normal bases... they're
only for OT-Track and then my master netmail area in my frontdoor... i'd
like to be able to move things to native linux flavors at some point in
time and retain my existing software... however, i know that this won't
happen with RA and i doubt that FE and FD will come out with *nix
flavors... so that leaves me with remote accessing over the LAN and that
takes local readers like TimED... too bad i don't know C stuff any more
than i do ;-(

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