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   Message 347 of 786   
   mark lewis to Joe Schweier   
   FD & BinkD   
   06 Oct 18 14:18:08   
   
    On 2018 Oct 01 18:09:22, you wrote to me:   
      
    JS> I'm trying to figure out what version of BinkD... there must be 7 or 8   
    JS> different versions for windows alone... Pearl...   
      
   that's easy enough... take the one with the highest version number and the   
   additional listed features that you might need for your specific OS...   
      
    JS> Anyway, would be nice if JoHo made some small changes to FD so that it   
    JS> would dove tail into Bink a little better.  Kinda like what D'Bridge   
    JS> does... A 16bit Mailer that has code added into it.  I know it might be   
    JS> more than that.... But it can't be that bad   
      
   it is a lot more than that... for one thing, having the old build environment   
   available and running on today's machines... that's a huge hurdle... using a   
   different compiler isn't an easy task, either... especially when you have   
   Pascal, C and ASM code to build and link and we've not even touched on being   
   able to use any external or 3rd party libraries...   
      
   in short, it just won't happen without a new FrontDoor which will likely be   
   32bit or 64bit... in this day, i would expect 64bit before any other...   
      
   i never got as far as Tommi did and set up FD's fileboxes in the STQ... i used   
   matts' tool to move the mail and files from the STQ to the individual fileboxes   
    i had set up in my binkd configuration... i left my Allfix and Fastecho   
   configured as they were so as far as they were concerned, everything was done   
   in FD's inbound and outbound directories and they had no clue that binkd was   
   even on the system... handling FREQs was another matter, though... especially   
   those that came in via binkd... it was a huge monstrous kludge and that's a   
   word i don't use lightly...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   Always Mount a Scratch Monkey   
   Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it   
   wrong...   
   ... 'Like putty in your hands' takes on a new and depressing meaning.   
   ---   
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