Stephen Haffly wrote to Will Honea on 11-17-1999

SH> On (16 Nov 99) Will Honea wrote to Mike Ruskai...
SH> 
SH> Hi Will,
SH> 
SH> MR> Cripes.  I guess that means they just did an equality comparison
SH> MR> with FILE_DIRECTORY, rather than a bitwise AND, or using a bit field
SH> MR> (my preference), etc.
SH>  WH> MR>
SH> MR> Pretty stupid.
SH> 
SH>  WH> I traced the Post Road code and that's exactly what they did.  I've
SH>  WH> got several years worth of this kind of crap collected in one of my
SH>  WH> YGBSM files - amazing what 'professional' programmers will do at
SH>  WH> times.
SH> 
SH> Is there any way to patch the PostRoad code so that it works
SH> properly then?

I did a quick and dirty that seemed to work for the simple tests I
tried, but that code is NOT well organized so I would hesitate to put
it out.  

Actually, there are 2 very simple solutions:  revert to FP10 or
earlier or update to FP12.
 
Will Honea 
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