Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Amiga BBS software Message-ID: Date: 30 Jun 91 08:20:21 GMT References: <6767@uafhp.uark.edu> <7512@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991Jun26.191046.15484@NCoast.ORG> <1991Jun27.181738.9828@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> syne.cs.du.edu> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 39 bmaple@isis.cs.du.edu (Bob Maple) writes: >> My biggest beef with C-Net is his inconsistant 'C' interface to PFiles > >Once we are through with all this pre-2.0 monkey business, the C headers won't >be changing as often. C-Net is going through a MAJOR changing state to where >the interfacing between Cnet and external Pfiles is nearly obsolete the next >day. Have patience, we all have to wait around just like you do. If something was well thought out to begin with, there would have never been any problems. You can't expect backwards compatablity to be lost with every release of the software can you? I had a HD crash last September and lost some source, and don't feel like re-writing the stuff from scratch. Who's to say the headers won't change from 2.0 to 2.20? There is no guarantee of this. Even if one was made, I wouldn't believe it. I believe the internal structures were changed many times from 1.0 to 2.0, and will change as many times from 2.0 to 3.0...Using internal "private" structures seemed kinda silly and I complained when I first looked at C-Net's PFile interface. It would be like Commodore changing the NewScreen structure somewhere in the middle of the structure... As Steve told me in E-Mail this morning, "Pletzer is adding all these features and flags galore, and is it really necessary?" This is a die-hard C-Net SysOp, he had run the AmigaBank for years on C-Net, actually it was the Bank before he bought his Amiga running on the C128... Someone mailed me stating that C-Net and Paragon are fighting for the ugliest codeing, and looking at the vote module Pletzer supplied, if C-Net looks like that internally its got my vote for uglyness...the 8100005 GURU's also show he devides by zero when you come across an error sometimes...YEACH! (I'd mail you but it bounces) -- C-UseNet V0.42f Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.