William McBrine wrote to Bo Simonsen about ''Re: QWK in Maximus'':

 -=>> Bo Simonsen wrote to William McBride <=-
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Yes I can't spell.

 BS>> Would you care to look in mb_qwk.c in the personal index section,
 BS>> Max/UNIX ain't writing PERSONAL.IDX properly, but the other Index
 BS>> files (%03x.IDX) is beeing written properly.

 WM> ".NDX". But anyway...

Ofcause.

 BS>> It should be the same structure right?

 WM> Yes.

 WM> OK, I'm finally going to start trying to live up to my "Developer"
 WM> status on the Maximus project. :-) I've grabbed the current CVS
 WM> tree from SourceForge and built it.

 WM> I don't see anything obviously wrong in the PERSONAL.NDX code yet,
 WM> but I have a more basic problem: I can't get a QWK packet built at
 WM> all here. It just segfaults as soon as I hit 'D'. 

I doesn't do here.. I bet it's locally?

 WM> I tried gdb'ing
 WM> it, but that just said the error was in malloc() -- not very
 WM> helpful. This was with just a few test messages I entered online;

Ok.

 WM> otherwise it's a new installation. I'll try a more thorough
 WM> debugging later, but first: Is there anything I might've missed in
 WM> the installation? I vaguely remember reading about some part that 
 WM> had to be copied from an old version instead of using the version
 WM> in CVS,  but I can't find that message now.

Hmm.. Gotta look at bit more on the code.

Bo

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