Hello Rich!   
      
   22 Nov 16 08:09, you wrote to me:   
      
    RL> I'm sticking to 2.x but I'll check it out and may get some insight on   
    RL> how to do some things.   
      
   Yeah.. I don't use 3.x either... I really don't understand the reason for the   
   breakage casued in the 3.x branch... I know some stuff I do, would need   
   rewritten as would stuff I use that need the same, and for some of that its   
   abandonware so...   
      
    RL> on the documentation. I read the JAM stuff and my mind melts. I just   
    RL> can't wrap my head around binary file manipulation... yet! Never give   
    RL> up! Never Surrender!   
      
   Well I avoided a lot of things, succesfully for a LONG time.. C and Python   
   being two of them...   
      
   Python came back as for some stuff I do on Pi's its a must   
      
   C was a forced thing for a more recent issue... now its sort of a mission for   
   something...   
      
      
    RL> Yes I do. I'm trying to code a CNet BBS clone in Python and make it   
    RL> more modern on the backend. I figured JAM would be easy for fido/FTN   
      
   Well hopefully the one helps, its 2.x...   
      
   I know I would love to have a python Jam lib so I could test some ideas... but   
   the posted JHR reader might just be the test suite I need.. since thats really   
   all I need to read anyway, at least in theory.   
      
      
    RL> OK, good to know! Thank you!   
      
   This came up else where with some stuff that is written for a tosser and   
   NNTP/Fido server all by the same author..   
      
   The issue is variable size at least from what I can see right now... I don't   
   know if there is a way to typedef ulong to be unsigned 32bit interger v. it   
   defaulting to 64b when compiled on a 64b systems or not.. forcing gcc to 32b   
   mode seems to resolve it.. but I just have a bug about doing that... I would   
   rather have a 64b binary, that uses 32b variables....   
      
   Is there no longer a "C" echo????? Didn't see one in the list I have, but maybe   
    its not exhaustive???   
      
      
   Rick   
      
      
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