Hi,   
      
   On 2016-12-04 08:36:04, mark lewis wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:   
     about: "Imorting Netmail Errors":   
      
    ml>>> if JAM netmail is hard, maybe it is time to add goldbase   
    ml>>> capabilities   
    ml>>> first?  :mrgreen:   
      
    WV>> The code is already there. There used to be a goldbase compatible   
    WV>> FMail. But I never tried to compile it nor tested it... ;)   
      
    ml> :clap: :clap: :clap: that's great! i think there's only one other tosser   
    ml> that supports goldbase, these days... i can't even recall which BBS   
    ml> software it was that used it... one of the quickBBS clones, IIRC...   
      
    ml> goldbase is simply an expanded HMB using larger variable types... longint   
    ml> instead of word and word instead of byte being two of those changes... i   
    ml> don't recall if they expanded the number of areas over 200, though...   
      
   In the fmail code it's expanded to 500.   
      
    ml> then someone did something where you could have multiple bases stored   
    ml> in different directories which multiplied the number of areas possible   
    ml> but you still had the same msg*.bbs and lastread.bbs files to step   
    ml> through in each directory...   
      
   That isn't supported in the fmail code...   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
      
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