Hi Mark,   
      
    ml>  On 2018 May 17 22:56:46, you wrote to All:   
      
      
    PK>> For some odd reason I suddenly have an obsession to install a offline    
    PK>> mail door. After d/ling BlueWave Mail Door,   
   Spent a few hours this weekend testdriving several different doors to realize   
   that none will integrate into a MysticBBS without manual housekeeping.   
      
    ml> Bluewave stuff must all be patched for y2k... doors and clients...    
    ml> without the patch, there will be random numbers in the To and/or From    
    ml> fields... the problem is the two digit year is calculated by    
    ml> subtracting 1900 from the current year... that gives a value greater    
    ml> than 99... they don't ensure that the returned value is only two    
    ml> digits aka result := mod(result,100)... it is an overlooked flaw that    
    ml> stems from doing math calcs on the year instead of string work with    
    ml> substr...   
      
    ml>   http://www.wpusa.dynip.com/files/BLUEWAVE/   
   Thanks for the link. There is alot of good stuff at Waldo's. It seems either   
   WP or Tiny has almost eerything archived these days.   
      
    ml> there's two ways to handle the y2k problem... neither is official and    
    ml> never can be... the preferred one, true patch of binaries, is at the    
    ml> very top of the page... the other one is mainly user-side but can be    
    ml> run on the BBS side... it is down in the 3rd section of the files    
    ml> list... it is not a patch but a glue program used when the file is    
    ml> (un)zipped...   
      
      
    PK>> I am curiouswht the others are & if they are worth looking into? OLMS   
    PK>> will be the next adventure...   
      
      
    ml> OLMS stopped working properly over here... when it would shell to zip    
    ml> up the files to send to the user, it would stop with some weird sort    
    ml> of memory allocation error... looks to me to be maybe an indicator of    
    ml> a pirated copy but the reg key is the free one...   
      
      
    ml> )\/(ark   
      
    ml> Always Mount a Scratch Monkey   
    ml> Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer    
    ml> doin' it wrong...   
    ml> ... Poo poo occurs.   
    ml> -+-   
    ml>  + Origin:  (1:3634/12.73)   
   Thx   
   Phil   
      
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