Hi everyone, lets get our harmonicas ready as I'm afraid I'm singing the    
   blues.... but no, I will not share the booze in the brown paper bag.   
      
   D'Bridge 4 is in total limbo at this point. I'm too busy with a school course   
   which I'm beginning to regret enrolling in, and holding down two jobs and    
   raising the munchkin - Who may soon be the youngest RC/NC in Fidonet as I am    
   giving serious consideration to letting her run my mail-hub system.   
      
   I had a phone call with Chris Irwin, the original author, and we both agree    
   that the code may not be possible to port over to a "modern" compiler; because   
   there is a LOT of code specifically written for MS-DOS and the IBM PC/XT.   
      
   I managed to get DBUTIL compiled for Linux and Windows 32/64-bit, but the    
   mailer, editor, nodelist compiler, etc. makes heavy use of a third-party    
   library called Turbopower. The database code would need a complete overhaul to   
   say nothing about all of the assembler-code for EMSI/Zmodem, dialup, etc.   
      
   Its one of these things that needs time and perhaps someone to help me port    
   the code over, if possible. I've contemplated paying someone to rewrite some    
   of the stuff just to get the ball rolling, but not sure.   
      
   The program means so much to so many people, but I cannot trust anyone else to   
   work on it; nor can I open-source it as I made a gentlemans-agreement with    
   Chris never to do so.   
      
   Nick   
      
   --- Renegade vY2Ka2   
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