27 Feb 16 17:03, you wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MK>> that every sysop from Ontario use{d,s} Timed for some strange
 MK>> reason.  What is the deal with that?

 SH>   What's even stranger?  I used to argue with a local guy about how
 SH> Timed is garbage compaired to Msged.  I was a HUGE Msged fan for many
 SH> many years. Then just about 2 months ago I installed Timed in dosbox and
 SH> now prefer it to Msged and Golded (Which I still use for some things).

The timEd code is kind of garbage compared to Msged and GoldED, although the
GoldED code is full of overly complicated C++ code.

About twenty years ago I worked on porting Msged to Windows NT. That wasn't too
difficult at the time. Most of the hard stuff porting it to 32-bit OS/2 had
already been done by Paul Edwards a few years prior.

On FreeBSD I stopped using timEd because of messagebase corruption. It was
caused by posting a message to an echo while tossing messages in the background
in the same echo (and no file locking). File locking in DOS (with SHARE.EXE
resident) & OS/2 probably prevent that, but I can't say for sure.

On my todo list is to rewrite part of the timEd code so that bug is fixed. I'd
also to get it running in Windows without Cygwin. I never seem to have much
time for working on FidoNet programs these days, but you never know.

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