Hello mark.

13 Feb 03 09:43, you wrote to me:

 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,

 ml> i seem to remember reading that, too ;-(

He said he had no plans to do so, but that may change hopefully.

 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.

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

Not sure of the above, I started with Squish, and if MBSE BBS would support 
it, I'd be using it, but JAM has now bee working fine now for just over two 
years. Also no idea why JAM seems to be the prefered msgbse by Linux BBS 
developers.

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

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

Then it too is probably got a JAM base. :-(

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

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

You know a bit, you are fortunate, I don't know any. :-((

Russell

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