> Gawd, this is exasperating.  First, for 6 years, there's
 > NO new version of Opus and NO upgrades, even minor ones.
 >  And then I bump into utilities which have always kind of
 > been a problem, but then I find out that's normal, because
 > those utilities are known buggy, and no one's bothered to
 > fix them!
 >
 > A few weeks ago I asked about the Topusers utility and *it*
        Actually the answer to your dilemma is actually quite simple. 
the Authors just gave up or died and did not put their source into the public 
domain for other opus programmers to work on it. OFAM is in this catagory as 
well.
        There is two possible answers. one is a nice one. the other 
is not so nice, Actually there is THREE.
        1. Develop your own version using the Opus 1.70 structures 
info, or contact the last known programmers address and see if he would like 
someone else to take over development. in either case. programming time.
        2. Switch to another bbs that does have current support (ducking)
        3. using a Disassembler decompile the original EXE files and 
working from the generated .ASM code recreate your own patched release.
        obviously the last one can and would take one a long time 
to muddle through C's convoluted ASM output. but if one is deperate enough. 
(reminds of Yosemite sam opening all those doors (bugs says, Wonder if he is 
stubborn enough to open all those doors?,,,, BOOM! Yep, he is stubborn 
enough" ;)
                                Michele Marie Dalene
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