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   Hello Sean!   
      
   Wednesday January 12 2022 12:55, you wrote to me:   
      
    > Hello Vincent,   
      
    > Wednesday January 12 2022 16:41, you wrote to me:   
      
    VC>> Please pass on my condolences for his loss.   
      
    > I will, thanks.   
      
    > I am busy working on a README.FreeBSD right now and Andrew is wanting   
    > to get out another release.  I am trying to teach myself enough C to   
    > start fixing a few things here and there.   
      
   Weel if you want some possible tasks / functions -   
      
   1. Simple editor to deal with file descriptions.  Low.   
      
   2. Procedure to allow sysop to restrict characters used in file descriptions   
   such as outside A - Z, a - z, 0 - 9, single period, comma, equals semmi-comma   
   (;) etc that the sysop can define in a field with mbsetup. That way if they   
   screw it up it is down to them to correct. Mid to High.   
      
   3. Check and if not fix for auto respond to ALLFIX, Filemgr requests by send   
   response back to originator during the transmission but if not send response   
   back as a poll after. Notice some system do this but have not seen mbse do it.   
   Mid.   
      
   4. Fix up some of the reported issues / bugs etc, if still open and sensible.   
      
   5. Consider converting the internal data bases files to sqlite3 or mysql etc.   
      This is not that easy as the DB code going by my memory of it, is all over   
      the shop instead of their own modules that are called when required - but I   
      could be wrong as that would be very sloppy programming but the code is    
   very   
      old.   
      
   I would help but my eye sight is not as good as it was and I am very rusty    
   with   
   C, - Still do some programming in Cobol but that about it these days.   
      
   Not that I am fond of C - way to close to Assembler and that goes back to the   
   mid 60's to 70's when I was programming in such. I do not miss it - too easy    
   to   
   make mistakes at that low level :(   
      
   Just a starter for 10 :)   
      
   Vincent   
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