On Thu, 03 Apr 2014, Markus Reschke wrote to mark lewis:

 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 
 ml> about using an address of -1s for requesting a new node number but 
 ml> most these days are using one of z:n/999 or z:n/9999 for these 
 ml> purposes...

 MR> Ah, I forgot about that. Sorry!

you don't have to apologize to me... i didn't do it and i'm not "the
boss" ;)  i just didn't want you to go about fixing it and causing
other problems and then suddenly realizing that it needed to be in place
for some historical reasons... as far as i'm concerned, you are free to fix
it as you see fit :)

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

i hear ya... don't forget to make sure that *you* put the bullets in the
chamber and hold the gun pointing away from your feet before allowing C/C++
to pull the trigger for you O:) :lol:

)\/(ark

One of the great tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a
gang of brutal facts. --Benjamin Franklin

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