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to: Matthew Parker
from: andrew clarke
date: 1997-02-14 00:00:00
subject: smapi

04 Feb 97 06:25, Matthew Parker wrote to andrew clarke:

 ac>> I don't have any information on any other bug fixes.  I suggest you 
 ac>> check the source and let me know if there are any missing. 

 > I checked the source and although you haven't listed all of them above
 > they have been fixed except for the one below.

All of your patches I've replied to in this echo have been merged into 4.2 beta 1.

 > The "Msged" name was then retaken, starting with version 4.00.  Msged
 > 4.00 contained a number of user interface enhancements (courtesy Andrew
 > Clarke). Support for QuickBBS message bases made its return thanks to
 > Paul Edwards, who folded in the original code from msged 2.08.  A number
 > of other minor features and bug fixes were also included.

 >>Another Major change from 3.35 to 4.00 was the 32bit dos version

I'll add that in.

 > The archive name for Msged release 4.2 will be named MSGED41x.ZIP, 

 >>I think above you meant MSGED42x.ZIP no real problem though.

Oops!  Well spotted.  Will fix, thanks.

 > Also I thought you would include the MP changes in version 4.10.

You mean the `ShowEnd' addition?  I don't ever remember seeing the actual
code for that.  Never mind, Msged 4.2 will allow you to selectively enable
or disable the display of tearlines, seenby lines and origin lines (plus of
course other control lines beginning with ^A).

 > Another thing is in the msged documentation you mention the watcom
 > compile not working properly. I'm not sure what you are saying but I
 > tried compiling the dos 386 version with full optimisation on and it
 > would crash at startup. The solution was to increase the stack size to
 > 16384 although it probably only needs to be 8192.

Yeah, I forgot to set the stack size altogether.  :-(  Fixed in 4.2 beta 2.

 > BTW there is going to be heaps of people asking why Msged now displays
 > in black and white.

Just Paul so far.

Regards
Andrew

-- randy{at}zws.com

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