Hi,

On 2016-12-04 08:36:04, mark lewis wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "Imorting Netmail Errors":

 ml>>> if JAM netmail is hard, maybe it is time to add goldbase
 ml>>> capabilities
 ml>>> first? <wicked grin> :mrgreen:

 WV>> The code is already there. There used to be a goldbase compatible
 WV>> FMail. But I never tried to compile it nor tested it... 

 ml> :clap: :clap: :clap: that's great! i think there's only one other tosser
 ml> that supports goldbase, these days... i can't even recall which BBS
 ml> software it was that used it... one of the quickBBS clones, IIRC...

 ml> goldbase is simply an expanded HMB using larger variable types... longint
 ml> instead of word and word instead of byte being two of those changes... i
 ml> don't recall if they expanded the number of areas over 200, though...

In the fmail code it's expanded to 500.

 ml> then someone did something where you could have multiple bases stored
 ml> in different directories which multiplied the number of areas possible
 ml> but you still had the same msg*.bbs and lastread.bbs files to step
 ml> through in each directory...

That isn't supported in the fmail code...

Bye, Wilfred.


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