-=> Quoting Mike Roberts to Nancy Backus on 06-11-07  15:35 <=-

 >  DC> It's a shame I can't contact the people that created OMX.  They seemed
 >  DC> to have guessed the Y2K deal and handled it before it became an issue.
 
 > That was Martin Pollard.  But he's dropped off the face of the earth,
 > too, it seems.  :(

 MR> Yeah, the old thanks for the Fish comes to mind. The whole bw thing is
 MR> sad  when You get right down to it. One of the best things to come
 MR> along to  support bbs messagers and it turns out like this. I am just

At least it was well enough done that it still works well for us
die-hards with just a modicum of adjustments along the way.  :)

 MR> surprised, Nobody  has done what Lars had started and write their own
 MR> BW doors. Lars was the only  one I remember doing such a thing. I
 MR> remember one for TG, Renegade, and  PcBoard etc.. and nobody must have
 MR> thought it was worth it I guess. Even when  he released the code for
 MR> the Telegard and renegade doors to me, I couldn't  even give them away
 MR> to programmers and have them update them. Sad. 

I have a file I saved from a message, early 2005, listing BW doors and
Y2K patches.  George wrote doors for Maximus 2.xDOS, 2.xOS2, 3.x, Opus
1.7x, PCBoard 15.2x, ProBoard 2.1x, OBBS 2.80, RemoteAccess 2.x,
SuperBBS 1.16/17 and TAG 2.7 besides the original for TG.  But, as to
other programmers, besides Lars' doors there were a number of others
listed... Pete Rocca's OLMS handles BW, and he had it for RA and ProB,
plus there were ones for Searchlight, MacroBBS, Spitfire and TriBBS, and
two for Amiga bbs's, MAXsBBS and Xenolink, along with a couple more for
the earlier mentioned bbs's.  Looking over my shoulder at the moment is
my resident wizard... he says that there's a good reason why there may
not be more doing it.. it's not trivial, and one really must want it
badly to do the work.  It's why he did a patch, after looking into
trying to rewrite it.  Another minor point, Lars' code was Pascal, so
there are fewer programmers capable of working with it, so that might
explain not being willing to update his programs.

Of course, I haven't a clue where one would go to look for (or even if
one would be able to find) some of these programs, but they might be
somewhere around still...  Maybe Mark Lewis knows...??  (The actual file
names are in the message I saved to a file, so I could get them out if
there was any interest...)

ttyl        neb

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