andrew clarke (3:633/267) wrote to All at 03:35 on 10 Nov 2002:

 ac> As it turns out Msged wasn't showing the ARTWARE conference in my
 ac> arealist where I expected it to be so I thought there was simply no
 ac> traffic, so you can ignore the PS. at the bottom.

There's not a lot of traffic but the echo is not extinct.

 ac> I've spent a few hours today porting Gerard van Essen's WIMM
 ac> ("Where Is My Mail") utility to compile with the 32-bit Windows
 ac> version of Borland C++, basically so it would support long
 ac> filenames.  It's GPLed, so if anyone's interested in a copy to use
 ac> I'll work on getting the source code to the state where I can
 ac> release it and send you both the Win32 binary + source.  It's had
 ac> all of the windowing/display code ripped out of it, so it now just
 ac> sends stuff to stdout/stderr:

 ac> WIMM/NT 2.0 beta 1
 ac> Copyright (c) 1994 Gerard van Essen (2:281/527)
 ac> Copyright (c) 2002 Andrew Clarke (3:633/267)

 ac> Reading: wimm.cfg
 ac> 4dos                                      Scanned 12 index entries.
 ac> ...
 ac> rec.autos.sport.f1.moderated              Scanned 174 index
 ac> entries. Done! Total runtime: 1 seconds.

 ac> It still logs to wimm.log like the old version:

 ac>   09 Nov 14:38:50 WIMM Begin, WIMM/NT 2.0 beta 1
 ac>   09 Nov 14:38:50 WIMM Personal mail found in ftsc_public!
 ac>   09 Nov 14:38:51 WIMM End, WIMM/NT 2.0 beta 1

It looks interesting enough that I'll have to look for a copy of Squish for NT.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 

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