On or about: 04-13-08  00:31, Dale Shipp did engage James Bradley
regarding, but not limited to: Re: BlueWave in Linux/DO

 DS> I have a new little computer for travel (Asus EeePC) which has a
 DS> version of Linux on it (Xandros).   I am trying to get BlueWave to
 DS> .......
 DS> If I open a QWK packet, read messages, and change the marks on those
 DS> messages, the changes get recorded in a file called OWL.XTI (QWK
 DS> packet is OWL.QWK -- and it is unpacked into a WORK directory).
 DS> >
 
 DS> A person on a DOSBOX forum has done some experimentation and
 DS> isolated the problem -- *AND* issued a file to fix it using ASM
 DS> compiled into a .COM program.   Here is a quote of what he said:

Wow... Now, *that's* tenacity. Thanks for the follow up!

 DS> --  begin quote -- [...]
 DS> "FindFirst" function INT 21/4E with a malformed filespec. Using the
 DS> example mail packet the program comes with, it tries to find
 DS> "C:\BWAVE\WORK\WELCOME.XTI*.BAK". MSDOS 5/6 and the WinXP NTVDM are
 DS> unforgiving and return error code 3 (invalid path), leading to a
 DS> [...]
 DS> error code 3 result. Run BWAVEFIX.COM from the BWAVE folder; it runs
 DS> BWAVE.EXE as a child program. The child exit errorlevel is reflected
 DS> through the parent, and the parent command line is given to the child,
 DS> so the program is friendly to batch files. Assembler source code is
 DS> included in the attached archive.

 DS> BWAVEFIX.ZIP (1.55kB) - Downloaded 4 Time(s)
 DS> -- end of quote --

 DS> http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=18242&postdays=0
 DS> postorder=asc&start=20

"Sent it off in a letter, to myself." -Dan, Steely 



... Thanks Again, Dale.      James

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