Hello Sean!

Saturday February 26 2022 13:35, you wrote to Vince Coen:

Hi Vince,

I'll take over the care and feeding for GOLDED and WIN95.

OK, I will send you copies of the MOD-UPD files for each so look in your inbox after Monday.

Vincent

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Hello Sean Dennis!

** On Saturday 26.02.22 - 13:35, Sean Dennis wrote to Vince Coen:

Hi Vince,

I'll take over the care and feeding for GOLDED and WIN95.

Why not just merge winXX into WINDOWS?

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Hello Vincent,

27 Feb 22 15:23, you wrote to me:

OK, I will send you copies of the MOD-UPD files for each so look in
your inbox after Monday.

Will do.

-- Sean

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Hello August,

27 Feb 22 11:17, you wrote to me:

Why not just merge winXX into WINDOWS?

I'm not going to force everyone to switch just because there's "95" in WIN95. It has been for decades now, a general Windows chat echo.

-- Sean

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Hello Vincent,

27 Feb 22 15:23, you wrote to me:

OK, I will send you copies of the MOD-UPD files for each so look in
your inbox after Monday.

I received the GOLDED file but not the WIN95 file.

Also, to change the mod on an echo...send a .ECO listing the new mod as COMOD1 and then send in a .EC1 with the co-mod as mod and the old mod as COMOD1?

-- Sean

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Hello Sean!

Sunday February 27 2022 13:12, you wrote to me:

Hello Vincent,

27 Feb 22 15:23, you wrote to me:

OK, I will send you copies of the MOD-UPD files for each so look
in your inbox after Monday.

I have sent you the file for GOLDED but as there is none recording for WINDOWS,
WIN95 I will leave it to you to create a MOD-ADD file for it/them.

Vincent

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Hello Sean!

Tuesday March 01 2022 21:57, you wrote to me:

Hello Vincent,

27 Feb 22 15:23, you wrote to me:

OK, I will send you copies of the MOD-UPD files for each so look
in your inbox after Monday.

I received the GOLDED file but not the WIN95 file.

Also, to change the mod on an echo...send a .ECO listing the new mod
as COMOD1 and then send in a .EC1 with the co-mod as mod and the old
mod as COMOD1?

My trick and the one I recommend is to send in two submissions with a 1 and 2 at
the end of the file name, i.e., GOLDED1.ECO, GOLDED2.ECO and if needed GOLED3.ECO

They get processed in file name order.

So 1st one, adds COMOD1 as you, 2nd one, changes MOD to you and you might get away with also deleting COMOD1 but if needed use 3rd to do that and on any of them doing a password change if you feel the need. Just remember to use the new
one there after.

Each submission will be processed in turn and reported upon.

Once the coding changes finish for the elist program you will also be able to submit (like the .RUL file) a DES file which has the echo description in it (and
only that as plain text, exactly the same as the .RUL file but that the description file MUST be name in the form :

AAA.BBB.CCCCCCC.DES

Where AAA = Group name i.e., FIDO
Where BBB = EchoTag name i.e., GOLDED
and ".DES" is fixed to specify the file type for processing.


This change will allow for a serious reduction in the elist record size from 2,816 bytes down to 1024 as the descriptions will be stored as a file with a directory etc, therefore saving a lot of space when the backbone areas get added
to the file base as they do not contain descriptions unless sysops add them by submitting a .DES file for any they feel happy knowing them.

I have not yet decided on if the backbone content will be added to the ELIST.RPT
file but so far leaning that way at least quarterly in place of the Rules listings - may just try it and see what it looks like and how useful they will be to every one. To me the most useful file is ELIST.NA but there again what do
I know :)

Vincent

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Vincent Coen wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

So 1st one, adds COMOD1 as you, 2nd one, changes MOD to you and you
might get away with also deleting COMOD1 but if needed use 3rd to do
that and on any of them doing a password change if you feel the need.
Just remember to use the new
one there after.

Got it. I knew there was a trick to it but I hadn't use it in quite some
time.

I have not yet decided on if the backbone content will be added to the ELIST.RPT
file but so far leaning that way at least quarterly in place of the
Rules listings - may just try it and see what it looks like and how
useful they will be to every one. To me the most useful file is
ELIST.NA but there again what do
I know :)

Are you storing this as a flatfile or as a SQL table or what? Just curious.

-- Sean

... I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just wanted paychecks.
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Vincent Coen wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

I have sent you the file for GOLDED but as there is none recording for WINDOWS,
WIN95 I will leave it to you to create a MOD-ADD file for it/them.

Will do, thanks!

-- Sean

... It's not a bug; it's an unintended feature.
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Hello Sean!

Wednesday March 02 2022 13:38, you wrote to me:

Vincent Coen wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

So 1st one, adds COMOD1 as you, 2nd one, changes MOD to you and
you might get away with also deleting COMOD1 but if needed use
3rd to do that and on any of them doing a password change if you
feel the need. Just remember to use the new one there after.

Got it. I knew there was a trick to it but I hadn't use it in quite
some time.

I have not yet decided on if the backbone content will be added
to the ELIST.RPT file but so far leaning that way at least
quarterly in place of the Rules listings - may just try it and
see what it looks like and how useful they will be to every one.
To me the most useful file is ELIST.NA but there again what do I
know :)

Are you storing this as a flatfile or as a SQL table or what? Just
curious.

ISAM.

Vincent

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