Hello Michael!

08 Jun 03 21:29, Michael Grant wrote to All:

 MG> I've heard that there is a recent bug fix out there for Squish. Where
 MG> can this be had from?

The Y2K fix from '99?

 MG> I would really like to see a major re-development of Squish, maybe
 MG> incorporating an areafix utility, and GUI interface similar to
 MG> Fastecho. Maybe even a file ticker, since hpt has one incorporated as
 MG> well...

You could run SEAL with Squish if you're looking for a "everything but
the kitchen sink" util.  It adds Areafix, Tick, RAID, and file
announcing.  It sorts and pretty-formats the Tick and Squish CFG files. It
can output the latest areas to MSGAREA.CTL from SQUISH.CFG and FILEAREA.CTL
from TICK.CFG so that they can just be INCLUDEd into MAX.CTL (2.x or 3.x). 
It has a few nice extras like PAUSE/RELINK that can stop/start all of the
areas that a given node is linked to, and NEWFEED which will generate an
unlink message to your old feed's address, a link message to your new
uplink's address and then redo the addresses on the existing lines for all
of the affected areas with one command line.

No GUI, but an (optional) nested menu text UI...which updates a standard
ASCII keyword-style CFG, which you can also edit by hand/batch-logic if
desired.  The CFG compiles to a binary file that is actually referenced by
the EXE at runtime.

Biggest drawbacks are that the author is gone from Fido, lost his source in
a drive crash and couldn't leave it with us, and it is a DOS EXE
only...though it has been working fine under OS/2 here for years and years.

 MG> I still feel that Squish is the most flexible and dependible
 MG> tosser out there. If updated to todays standards, it'd be hard to
 MG> beat.

Fortunately, "today's standards" for mail-tossing are about 10
years old. ;)

.\\ike

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