Hello all,   
      
   Just a note about my slow progress on making a WWIVToss Setup program.   
      
   I had a big roadblock for a while with READING in AREAS.DAT and displaying it   
   properly because of data alignment issues between DOS and Linux (i.e. ints on   
   DOS are 16-bits only whereas they are 32-bit on Linux).   
      
   To put this in perspective, my first efforts were directed at READING in the   
   WWIVToss DATA files, wwivtoss.dat and areas.dat. My next step was to display   
   their contents as they would be interpreted by WWIVToss. With a hint about   
   using #pragma pack(push, 1) from Rushfan, I was able to display the WWIVToss   
   config file data easily (wwivtoss.dat).   
      
   I was floundering for a while with reading in areas.dat and displaying its   
   contents properly until I revisited the data structures for arearec AND   
   netnode! These data structures both contained INTs. After defining the ints as   
   shorts, things went smoothly from there and I am able to display data from   
   areas.dat correctly now.   
      
   My next steps will be to add an interface to EDIT/ADD values and write the new   
   configuration data files out to disk.   
      
   p.s. My work is currently on Linux, but I will try to structure the code so it   
   can easily be ported back to DOS (Borland TCC).   
      
   --- WWIVToss v.1.50    
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