Hey Danny!   
      
   Dec 23 17:15 05, Danny Ceppa wrote to Maurice Kinal:   
      
    DC> That's in using PKTs.  Other formats are nice, but it all needs    
    DC> to have a common root.  Though I use Blue Wave, it is compatible    
    DC> with the PKT format.     
      
   So if an offline door was written with both the in and outbound being pkt   
   format your offline editor would have no problem with that?   
      
    DC> Ahem!  My firsy cpu was a Tandy 1000sx.     
      
   Are you bragging or complaining?   
      
    DC> BTW, my first was an 8086.     
      
   I saw those in action in small offices and decided then and there not to   
   bother.  It would have been virtually impossible networking with Unix and VMS   
   networks and the lack of a suitable compiler so at least I could fake it was   
   seriously lacking, nevermind that they were way too slow.  My wife didn't seem   
   to mind them but I bet if you asked her now she wouldn't go back.  She is   
   definetly a Windows user but didn't have any problem with the Linux box here   
   once I set up a proper home account for her.  She managed to communicate   
   effectively with her current workplace's server.  She also noted that once one   
   figured out configuration issues it was noticeably faster then her regular   
   home box which is much closer to the actual server.   
      
    DC> Actually, there were poblems with Y2K if you weren't prepared.  The    
    DC> primary problems were with data bases and too short of a year field.     
      
   Not a big deal really unless you didn't undertand what to replace or how in   
   headers.  I steered clear of thing like Borland's DB(whatever Roman version)   
   on my machines and kept good nnotes about any structures of important files,   
   if there even was a header on any files.  My old DOS stuff would be readable   
   on any OS.  Some were dated where that mattered and there was never a problem   
   getting the proper date evn before I was aware of y2k problems with dos.   
      
    DC> You can find anything you want on the web, true or not!     
      
   Not likely anything I REALLY want.  I have seen approximations of what I   
   REALLY want but none of that was/is real.   
      
   Mind you that might be a good thing.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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