On 23 Dec 05  17:51:58, Maurice Kinal got back to Danny Ceppa    
   -> Re: echos   
      
    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.     
      
    MK> So if an offline door was written with both the in and outbound being   
    MK> pkt format your offline editor would have no problem with that?    
      
   Not directly, no.  I use it for its message handling as well as tagline    
   features.  However, Terminate does.  I used PPOINT for awhile, but    
   it would allow me the use of BW.     
      
      
    DC> Ahem!  My firsy cpu was a Tandy 1000sx.     
      
    MK> Are you bragging or complaining?   
      
   A bit of both!     
       
    DC> BTW, my first was an 8086.     
      
    MK> I saw those in action in small offices and decided then and there not   
    MK> to bother.  It would have been virtually impossible networking with   
      
   286 chips weren't even out yet.     
      
    DC> Actually, there were problems with Y2K if you weren't prepared.  The    
    DC> primary problems were with data bases and too short of a year field.     
      
    MK> Not a big deal really unless you didn't undertand what to replace or   
    MK> how in headers.  I steered clear of thing like Borland's DB(whatever   
    MK> Roman version) on my machines and kept good nnotes about any   
    MK> structures of important files, if there even was a header on any   
      
   Too mamy users of data bases have no idea how it is contructed.    
      
    DC> You can find anything you want on the web, true or not!     
      
    MK> Not likely anything I REALLY want.  I have seen approximations of what   
    MK> I REALLY want but none of that was/is real.    
    MK> Mind you that might be a good thing.   
      
   I reserve my web searchers to what are reputable sites.  Unless,    
   of course, I'm looking for a good laugh!     
      
      
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