ES> that was me.  Bob Harris used to ask me to look at the rbbs source code
CA> I thought so.      ^^^^^^^^^^ Sounds semi-familar, was he running a BB
CA> in 805 in the last year?
 
He ran HIS Board.  He moved to Pensacola, Fl beginning of march this
year though and hasn't gotten the bbs fully up again yet.
 
CA> Yeah. Like that EBBS that came on the PB/XTRA disk, it was okay to 
CA> compile, but a real pain to mod.
 
I have never looked at that code.  I think its also posted on the PB
BBS as well as being on those disks.  Just too much going on to mess
around with other people code...
 
CA> I generally use GOSUB only for error/event handlers (Why can't they ad
CA> subs?) and GOTO only for REALLY complicated looping if/then structures
CA> (like what I got in my project for trig, which suffered from 
CA> "Just-one-more-feature"-itis)
 
Yeah I often wondered why it was an "ON ERROR GOTO" sort of thing and
"ON KEY GOSUB" as well as "ON COM GOSUB".  Guess its just holdovers
from early basic daze.  
 
My use of goto and gosub within sub's is if the code in the
CASE/IF/LOOP/etc is getting a little too big.  Its easier to read
sucessive if/thens then have to wade thru an if/then a bunch of
code/then next else.  So I tend to use gosub for these, so it will be
if then/gosub/else/gosub sort of structure, and you can name your gosub
labels by what you are trying to do to make it more readable.  thats
only for stuff that others may read, my own stuff could care less (you
should see the cd-rom door code, some parts are really clean while
others it takes me a few minutes to figure out just what in the @#$%#$
i was trying to do!).  
 
btw, for easy cd-rom support i recommend allowing the file database to
be broken into "conferences" so to say, ie: allow for separate file
databases for each cd-rom disc.   merging different cd-rom discs into
same file database is a nightmare.  this way also if they change cd's
then its just a matter of taking that database out of the config and
putting the new one in.  we can discuss this more as you approach the
time when you are going to add the file area code if you want.  
   Eric
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FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 214 POWER BASIC   Ref: C4GP2220 Date: 04/12/95
From: MICHAEL SCHWENN                                       Time: 08:37pm
\/To: ERIC SCHONNING                                      (Read 5 times)
Subj: R: Re: Echo Project!

 ES³ I would like to see avoided as much as possible.  Someone should be
 ES³ able to look at this code and figure out what is going on rather quickly,
 ES³ instead of threading your way thru gosub calls and tracking global
 ES³ variables.  That is the biggest nightmare of rbbs source code.

OK RBBS was good for that time. It is not all the hard to figure out. I worked
with the code for two years and it not all that difficult to operate with.
But I do agree that the code is that the easiest thing to add mods too. Many
are still working with the code and finding the ins' and outs' of programming
RBBS. And many of good things have happen with the code since the first
release. I hope this project will show new ways and ideas on how programming
a BBS does not have to be confusing and difficult to follow. I know that I
will be keeping a eye on the development of the code.


Michael

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FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 214 POWER BASIC   Ref: C4F00003 Date: 04/09/95
From: ARNIE SOSSNER                                         Time: 11:53pm
\/To: DANNY LAROUCHE                                      (Read 6 times)
Subj: "print screen"???

DL>Is someone know how to do a "print screen" when using dos application
DL>under windows ??
Press Shift-Print.Screen, just as you do in DOS running without Windows.
...Arnie in Hurley, NY
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