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to: Mike Tripp
from: Bo Simonsen
date: 2003-07-29 13:39:32
subject: Compression question

Hello Mike!

28 Jul 03 22:06, you wrote to me:

 BS>> It's quite wierd because nobody has reported Y2k problems to me,
 BS>> then i've been testing Squish on Unix.

 MT> Probably because Squish is working as designed and other software is
 MT> generating the bad dates.  Squish logs them as "grunged date" and
 MT> doesn't forward them.  I have this issue with messages inserted into
 MT> .SQDs by Maximus offline mail doors (BlueWave and Silver Xpress).

Oh okey, so it's actually not a Squish problem?

 JS>>> The program I use, Y2KDate, was released with good documentation
 JS>>> and source code in C. I suggest, however, that you contact the
 JS>>> author:

 MT> Since my problem messages originate at my system, I use William
 MT> McBrine's ECHOFIX (not to be confused with multiple other Echofix
 MT> utils that do a ton of things besides repair grunged dates), which
 MT> also includes source.  It fixes the bad msgs within the .SQDs.
 MT> Afterwards, Squish will export them normally.

Yeah okey. :)

Regards,
Bo


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