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   ATREYU to The Leprechaun   
   Re: Current Files.BBS importer   
      
   
   MSGID: 1:229/426 E37FB2C5   
   TZUTC: -0500   
   On 08 Mar 21  19:50:21, The Leprechaun said the following to T.J. Mcmillen:   
      
   TL> I'm looking through the code to see what may be going on.  It started out a   
   TL> way for me to to find the file structure for the *.scn and *.dir files so I   
   TL> could update them myself but now I'm intrigued by what's going on across th   
   TL> whole thing (I've never developed in Pascal, just C++ and Microsoft stuff).   
   TL> Anyway, I'll plug along to see what may be going on.   
      
   It makes sense to develop Renegade stuff in Pascal because thats what its    
   written in. Otherwise you have an additional mess of converting structures to    
   C especially Pascal string types.   
      
   You are also working with what are essentially a few different database format   
   types because the structures were changed over the years.   
      
   The SCN files are scan pointers, safely ignored. The DIR files are the file   
   indexes but the Extended.DAT file must be handled with upmost care...   
      
   Nick   
      
   --- Renegade vY2Ka2   
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