Hans Beekhuizen wrote to Bo Simonsen about ''Re: Dupe checking'':

 BS>>>> We did have some major problems with dupechecking and the 3.03b
 BS>>>> release of maximus, they are fixed in the CVS version.
 HB>>> Aha :))
 BS>> We are about to release a more stable version of maximus/squish/sqafix.

 HB> That's good :))

:-)

 BS>>>> 1. Use the CVS version
 HB>>> I just installed it, so will find out tomorrow morning if this
 HB>>> problem has been solved.
 BS>> Okay, I'm 99% sure it's. :) Squish is so stable, so I've fixed all
 BS>> compiler warnings in it! ;)

 HB> Of course, there were no new file announcements today...  I'lllet
 HB> you know as soom as I know something more, be it good or bad.

Greate.

 BS>>>> 2. Only do dupechecking on Header. In squish.cfg
 HB>>> Except for the date, the headers in these messages are all the
 HB>>> same.  Would it work then?
 BS>> I'm not sure, I didn't get mutch dupe by running Squish without msgid
 BS>> check, and right now there are still people which is using
 BS>> Software which
 BS>> seems to be buyed at antique-market, which doesn't set {at}MSGID.
 BS>> So Squish
 BS>> will only do dupechecking on Header, and it's not caused any
 BS>> dupes to me.

 HB> Well, I think yhat question is academic now that the problem is
 HB> solved. 

Indeed it's what I'm trying to say is that Squish is not juging many dupes
if you run without MSGID testing.

 BS>>>> Unfortionally can't I send you a patch
 HB>>> That's no problem.  I have ADSL so don't have to worry about those
 HB>>> nasty ticks in the telephone :)
 BS>> Okay. :) I've cable but it's the same princip.

 HB> ADSL came first in this village.  I moved to it when my ISDN card
 HB> died about 2.5 years ago.

Aha.

 HB>>> For myself I'm happy with mbse [a Linux-native
 HB>>> all-in-one package] and GoldED+.
 BS>> I see. :) I know MBSE it's good software, but there is some things I
 BS>> doesn't like about it.

 HB> It's still changing every day.  Enhancements and bug fixes.  The
 HB> author is very keen.  Usually when you report a bug it will be
 HB> fixed within a couple of days. When I started playing with Linux
 HB> and thinking about Fido software for it, I could not find anything
 HB> I liked until I met mbse.  

There are fundemental things I doesn't like about MBSE:

1. It's using JAM, anyhow I could live with that.
2. It's using UNIX accounts for users (I can't live with that).
3. It's uses Binary configuration files (I can't live with that).

   - Maximus is more smart it's "compiles" a plain ASCII configuration file
     and take it from there.

 HB> There were a lot of problems with it
 HB> then!  I got a reward for reporting the most bugs :))  But I had
 HB> been running Maximus and Squish under MS-Dos since March 1992!

Okay. :) It's good and very stable software even on UNIX! :)

 BS>> And if I ran software made by others, I can't figure out what to
 BS>> program on. ;)

 HB> I Seem not to get to do much "private" programming these days.  And
 HB> anyway, I am anCbete, so would not be a great help.  My main
 HB> languages are Fortran, Pascal, COBOL and Abal.

Aha, I do Pascal too, but not mutch latest, mostly C. :)

I allways wanted to learn Fortran but I'm not studying a place where they
are using that.

Bo

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