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   Message 537 of 1,725   
   Ward Dossche to Björn Felten   
   Re: My patched version   
   14 Jan 13 07:34:20   
   
   BF> OK. Not too many fidonetters (not even my ZC) noticed my effort to take   
   BF> MAKENL into this new century.   
       
   I can't recall a single instance of having been informed ...   
       
   ... however ...   
       
   BF> ... I also fixed the equally   
   BF> stupid issue about BAUD rates (only six could be defined in the config   
   BF> file). But those latter improvements, I didn't even tell anyone about...   
   BF> 8-)   
       
   The config-file in use here has 10 (=ten) baudrates mentioned. This goes back   
   to the day when Bob Satti was still Z1C ... that's pre-1999 ...   
       
   Other than that, the 2.51 manual which I printed-out in those days and which   
   lies nicely opened on my desk right now reads verbatim on page-26, section   
   6.1.8:   
       
               To accommodate future growth, the "valid baud rate" table is   
               configurable through  the use  of the  BAUdrate verb.    The   
                parameter  is a list of up to twelve (12)   
               valid baud  rates (numeric strings) separated by commas.   
       
   Nothing there about 6 baudrates.   
       
   BF> On: Sun 9 Jan 2000 17.41   
   BF> By: Björn Felten   
   BF> To: Robert Bashe   
   BF> Re: MakeNL   
   BF> St: Local   
   BF> -------------------------------------------------------------------------   
   ...   
   BF> As Ward very well knows, I have done just that. I informed him several   
   BF> months ago of this, hoping he should pass on the information to his RC's,   
   BF> but I haven't seen anything in that direction -- at least not in   
   BF> REGCON.EUR.   
       
   BF> If you have the "genuine" MakeNl 2.51 (dated June 16th 1992, size   
   BF> 48,231b) you can apply the fix below and get it y2k-fixed. If you don't   
   BF> have exactly that version, you can freq MKNL from 2:203/0 or you can get   
   BF> it on the web as www.fidonet.pp.se/nodlistan/mknl.zip.   
       
   Up until 3 weeks ago it was exactly that 1992-version which has been used here   
   ... except that when loaded it displays June 14 of that year.   
       
   Zero complaints during all those years other than the requests to upgrade to   
   makenl_ng.   
       
       
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