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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga BBS software
Message-ID: <5262@orbit.cts.com>
Date: 29 Jun 91 05:45:03 GMT
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rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes:
>I think he's just abusing something somewhere...he has a bunch of null
>pointers he accesses in the load program...I keep bitching about it, been
>bitching since he released 1.95...its just gotten worse...Alot of it has to do
>with compiler flukes I am pretty sure, because C-Net only started dying when
>he switched to the beta Manx...But its probably because of some bad code
>somewhere that the compiler is handling differently all of a sudden..

Yes, i just got the new Beta Aztec Compiler as well, tons of bug fixes, and
some of them look suspiciously like bugs that were in C-Net.

>
>My biggest beef with C-Net is his inconsistant 'C' interface to PFiles though,
>he should have thought it out better instead of using internal structures that
>should be "private" to C-Net...Having to recompile code for every new release
>is stupid...and when you write a program and others start bitching it doesn't
>work on their beta copies, and I can't run that beta copy, its what drives a
>screw into my side....

This i think is C-Net's most powerful feature.  You yourself have written
utilities that utilize this (DosWho).  You can literaly re-program the bbs
since many parts of it are just Pfiles.  He's changing the Pfile structure for
2.0, which  will most likely stay standard for quite some time, i'm glad he's
doing it now, rather than in the future.

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