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to: andrew clarke
from: Bo Simonsen
date: 2003-06-15 19:25:48
subject: MSGAPI

Hello andrew!

Jun 16 01:55 03, andrew clarke wrote to Bo Simonsen:

 BS>> * MSGAPI - original, used by the Maximus BBS and the Squish tosser

 ac> Less portable than SMAPI/XMSGAPI.  Needs more testing.

Yes that's right, but i doesn't looks like, mr. wesley did lots work on it
to port it.. if you look in the cvs repostery.

 BS>> * XMSGAPI - extende msgapi, used by timed

 ac> Based on SMAPI 2.3 but considerably more portable.

Ok.

 BS>> * SMAPI - small msgapi, used by the husky project.

 ac> Not as portable as XMSGAPI and is full of unnecessary code.

Ok.

 ac> I have suggested Wesley try linking Squish and Maximus against 
 ac> XMSGAPI at some stage and doing some tests, but you might like to do 
 ac> that.

That would be _very_ nice.

 ac> cvs -r -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs{at}blizzard.dnsalias.org:/cvsroot co 
 ac> xmsgapi

 ac> I expect there will be some function calls missing from XMSGAPI that 
 ac> Maximus and/or Squish were expecting, but these should really be 
 ac> added to Maximus/Squish themselves rather than XMSGAPI.  The idea 
 ac> being that I rewrote XMSGAPI to provide enough functions for an 
 ac> average program to work that requires just the documented MSGAPI 
 ac> calls and little else.

yeah i notice that, then i were fighting with msgapi..

Regards,
Bo

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