Tue 2003-02-04 09:29, Tobias Ernst (2:2476/418.15) wrote to andrew clarke:

TE> Nobody ever had the idea to deprecate that feature. Append mode is
TE> broken for the JAM part of smapi, and nobody fixed this, as it
TE> happend to turn out that aside from Msged, no program was using
TE> append mode.

OK.

TE> I'd, personally, rather see append mode fixed for JAM ... Do you
TE> actually think this is impossible? I don't think so. In the worst
TE> case scenario, we could make the JAM routines first suck in the
TE> whole message into a memory buffer, and only write it to the file
TE> base on MsgClose. That's essentially what Msged is doing right now.

The comments in the SMAPI code seemed to indicate it was difficult.  I just
thought it may not be worthwhile given that nothing bar Msged actually uses
that mode, and consequently haven't bothered trying to fix it until I knew
what the situation was.  :-)

 ac> -+- timEd/FreeBSD 1.11.a3

TE> Wow :-)

TE> And I remember myself fiddling around with a disassembly to fix the
TE> Y2K issue when timed was not open sourced yet :-|

:-)

You can thank Husky's own Oliver Grimm for doing most of the work porting
timEd to UNIX.  Truly amazing stuff.  I just fixed a few bugs.  ;-)

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