-=> Quoting Mark Lewis to Nancy Backus on 02-02-11  21:00 <=-   
      
    ML>> patch by manually patching the RA version of the door... everything was   
    ML>> found as the patch scripts and readme state and the manual hex editing   
    ML>> of the binary was no problem... TTBOMK, everything works as desired and   
      
    NB> So you worked with hubby's patch...  :)   
      
   yes, to a point... that point being to manually apply it to the RemoteAccess   
   version of the door... everything appeared to be where it needed to be and the   
   hex replacements went with no problems... IIRC, preliminary testing was fine,   
   too... but i believe, as i wrote earlier, that i had to take it back offline   
   because the data structures for the info passed during the shell were slightly   
   different and different enough to through certain other date related items   
   off... i don't believe that i stated it that clearly, though...   
      
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    ML> i might have removed it by the time you became a regular user... but   
    ML> then again, as i think about it, i may also have removed it due to my   
    ML> running a beta of the BBS software and the door supporting an older   
    ML> version of the data structures... i don't recall if i had written or   
    ML> otherwise used a glue program to convert the structures back and forth   
    ML> between what the door needs and what the BBS actually uses... yeah, it   
    ML> has been quite a while ago ;)    
      
    NB> Well.. for a time line of sorts... the date on the latest version   
    NB> of the patch (as on my computer) is 2006.  That IS a while ago.  :)   
      
   yup and i'd have to go digging to see if i still have the patched exe here and   
   see if its date was even altered by my patching... it may not have been since   
   i did it manually...    
      
    NB>   But I think I may have been lurking on the bbs, just reading   
    NB> messages to me or something similar, until you offered the offline   
    NB> option at all...  I don't remember ever seeing the true BW door   
    NB> available... although I might be misremembering...  :)   Maybe the   
    NB> problem was* a mismatch between versions of softwares...    
      
   yep... i'm running a beta of the BBS software that uses a couple of extra   
   sections in the fields for full date format storage... the original places in   
   the fields for dates are still maintained but they are not full 4 digit   
   capable whereas the new ones are... so the problem comes up with software that   
   only updates the old date fields and if they have a y2k problem in that   
   area... the BBS software updates both sets of fields but i do not recall if it   
   reads the new field and updates the old field on import... if couldn't do this   
   if the external software doesn't use the new fields, anyway so there's still a   
   bit of a sticky wicket there... the only real answer is a glue program that   
   will create the old binary dropfile format on exit to the external door and   
   then fix up the new format on return... i just don't recall if i actually did   
   this glue program or if i got started and then distracted or what :/   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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