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echo: fidosoft.husky
to: mark lewis
from: Markus Reschke
date: 2014-04-03 20:21:26
subject: Grrr

Hello mark!

Apr 03 12:29 2014, mark lewis wrote to Markus Reschke:

 MR>> Double Ouch! First one is using signed integers for the fido
 MR>> address. Have you even seen a negative node number? That requires
 MR>> tons of type conversions which could have been avoided.

 ml> it is actually to spec and political documentation which talks about 
 ml> using an address of -1s for requesting a new node number but most 
 ml> these days are using one of z:n/999 or z:n/9999 for these purposes...

Ah, I forgot about that. Sorry!

But I found a bug with the memory managment when EchoAreaDefaults is used
with -sbadd and/or -sbign.  Have to fix that first before I can test my new
features :-(

Regards,
Markus

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