Hey andrew!

Jun 28 16:34 06, andrew clarke wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 ac> It's much easier to fix broken source code than to try to get 
 ac> everyone to use newer file formats for everything.

Who is 'everyone'?  Seems to me there aren't enough people using any ftn
software nevermind the older abondonware (shareware) except the OS/2 guys
who seem to like emulating DOS-think.

If nothing is done about it I doubt the situation will improve with time
and will no doubt cause a further decline in the nodelist.

 ac> I don't have any experience with using GNU C on 64-bit CPUs but in 
 ac> any case, from what I understand it's possible to tell the compiler 
 ac> to use 32-bit ints.  Pointers will still be 64-bit, but that 
 ac> shouldn't cause any problems.

Yes but 32-bit ints break ftn software which require 16-bit ints.  You'd
have to use a bit shifting method on a pure 64-bit platform to compensate
for DOS-think or have two sets of libs available which seems to be the
current strategy.  Funny thing is I was using 64-bit systems well before
writing code for 16-bit DOS and never had this problem until Fido.  I
wonder how many other networks will be byting the dust given the lack of
poor implimentation of code.

Seems to me that a change is required else this is history, if it isn't already.

Life is good,
Maurice

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