Hey Michele!

Oct 01 13:50 03, Michele Marie Dalene wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MMD>     When I was working with Opus 1.73a with Squish, I used a 3rd
 MMD> party package to deal with areafix. In fact... it was called areafix
 MMD> ;). Sadly there is no standalone areafix for Linux.

We'll see about that.

 MMD> seeing if I could port maximus to a libc5 system? Got to get that
 MMD> box out of storage though, its a Slackware 3.9 system. Amazingly I 

I can't see that being any different from the setup you already have. 
Offhand I would think it would make the situation worse.

 MMD> thread safe. I would need to find a work around. Not exactly a high
 MMD> priority. first I want to see a cvs update that a slacker can build 
 MMD> on
 MMD> Slackware 8.0 or 8.1 without screaming bloody murder ;)

Amen!  I'll go along with that.

 MMD>     I wonder of an areafix could be written in perl? that is, like
 MMD> sqafix. looks at incoming messages to areafix. checks passwords 
 MMD> etc..
 MMD> and adds/deletes entries in either the squish.cfg or the areas.bbs
 MMD> file? I don't know perl well enough to even begin doing it although 
 MMD> I
 MMD> could flowchart it and write the psudeo code. 

That would be fantastic!  I, for one, would love to see something like
that.  You have my attention.

Life is good,
Maurice

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