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Subject: Re: BPQ (was: Re: Netrom)
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 12:47:53 +0100
From: Joachim Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On tis, 16 mar 1999, Jonathan NAYLOR wrote:
>> I think I'd prefer if a "hard-core" group took over maintenance,
>> rather than making the source generally available. From what I
>> understand, there's some pretty freaky coding in it.
>
>I wouldn't say freaky coding, just very heavy wizardry. Being a TSR, it can't call
>any system
>services and has to do a lot of work by hand. The code is very heavy going and not
>well
>commented.
>
>What was amazing was when John got a bug report, he would go to the right line in the
>right
>source file and start coding.
Is there still any work beeing put into BPQ ??
There is a major bug in the program. If you try the following, it will almost
certanly crash the computer.
c 1 a d e r f d s w e d c v f r t g b f d s e d f r
Send it a couple of times to the node and it will halt and freeze the computer.
I've tried this with BPQ 4.08.
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/Jocke
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