PE>> The *.MSG header has no place in it for "date
arrived".  It could 
PE>> be kludged on though, but just isn't.

PE> Ok, I tell a lie.  What has actually happened is that there are two 
PE> different standards for *.MSG.

MS> How convenient. :)

PE> The one documented in FTS-1 is what I referenced when writing
PE> Tobruk, which doesn't have the date arrived in it.  The one that
PE> is used in Msged is the one that does have the date arrived.  I
PE> will need to convert both Msged and Tobruk to use the same
PE> format.  So hang on to your hat on that one!

MS> Righto.

I have done the mods to both MSGED and Tobruk to handle date arrived. I
don't think I should send you the changes though, because that will just
confuse your code with mine.  BTW, did you get the message I wrote to you
in PUBLIC_DOMAIN about the Lattice makefile?  Also, I think Andrew is
likely to be merging all the changes in to MSGED over Christmas. Can you
get your mods in to him soon?  Especially the non-Lattice-5.1 mods.  I'm
not sure what the philosophy on the Lattice 5.1 mods should be.  I think
you should have an independent archive containing 5.1 fixups, which can be
used in all products expecting an ISO environment etc.  Then again, I
included a PACIFIC.C in MSGED last time.  But then I also made available a
patch to Pacific C's header files as a separate thing.  The thing is, it's
likely to be me, not you, that will be doing the Amiga compile, since I
have the more advanced compiler.  So it's only people who are stuck with an
old Lattice compiler and want to do development that need the fixups.  I
think I'd start with a separate Lattice C thing.  BTW, in order to get
quick.c to compile, you must have done something to make up for the fact
that fstat() isn't defined. What did you do?  I hope you created a LATTICE
etc instead of using SASC, because the current SASC has an fstat().

BTW, the message in PUBLIC_DOMAIN was trying to get a Lattice C makefile as
just one file, instead of needing the separate link file.

BFN.  Paul.
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