Hello Sean!

18 Jan 10 20:11, Sean Dennis wrote to Mike Tripp:

 MT>> Unless Kevin is running the Telegard door, there is probably not
 MT>> a Y2K-patched EXE for his BW door.

 SD> I was under the impression that there were; my bad.  However, I've
 SD> understood people to go in and fix the Y2K problem with a hex editor
 SD> though.

Yep, I've heard that rumor too...but didn't find the documented problem
byte sequence in any of my distribution door EXEs...3.1x or 3.2x versions,
DOS or OS/2 flavors.  If somebody has successfully patched one, I'd sure
like to know which one and a chance to experiment with it.

 MT>> My solution to that one takes a pass with William McBrine's
 MT>> ECHOFIX util to fix the date data in the messagebase before
 MT>> Squish takes a stab at scanning the area. Cures similar issues
 MT>> with messages uploaded via the Silver Xpress door for Maximus at
 MT>> the same time.

 SD> As you know, I never got that to completely work with my Maximus setup
 SD> and I'm not sure why.

I believe you were having some type of file system corruption issues with
another program trying to access the messagebases simultaneously in a
non-shared manner...but I thought you got past that.

.\\ike

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