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to: mark lewis
from: joseph larsen
date: 2016-03-01 21:17:14
subject: Re: Impulse Linux versus Impulse DOS.

|01 ÜÜÛ²ßßÝßßß  °ß    °|CR²ß   quoting |09mark lewis |01on |0903/01/16 |07
 
 ml> wait! what? are you saying that your linux compiled binary cannot read
 ml> those messages but the original DOS one has no problems with them?? how
 ml> are you compiling? are you trying to do 16bit, 32bit or 64bit?? can you
 ml> be more explicit about "the messages being garbled"?? got pics?

Yes, that's what i'm saying. I'm compiling like this: "ppc386 -Mtp
imp.pas".
I'm compiling for a 32bit machine. Here's a screenshot:
http://www.catch22bbs.com/garbled.png

 ml> there is no conversion to be done... PKTs are binary and you don't
 ml> convert them like that any more than you convert an exe file like
 ml> that... what are you trying to convert the PKTs to?? the tosser
 ml> ""converts"" them when it strips off the PKT
header and then imports
 ml> each message in the PKT into the message base... that's not even a
 ml> conversion, really...

Ahh. I see.

Thanks,

|09ignatius |07[|15cia|07]

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