WRONG!

[Peter da Silva]

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The following are my nosey-parker comments about what I think (from context)
must be some sort of UNIX-based BBS. I am currently running a UNIX-based
BBS of my own devising, so...

In article ... sandy at turnkey.TCC.COM (Sanford 'Sandy' Zelkovitz) writes:
> The following are my replys to WRONGLY stated comments:
> > The messages are in a non-standard format with all messages stuffed into
> > one huge file.  The messages are limited to a compile time maximum length.

> Firstly, what is a standard message????

Either 1 message per file, a-la news, or <n> messages per file, a-la mail.
In either case the files should be normal UNIX text files with no message
length limits.

> >	3) The message base, file handling, and bulletins (motd and others)
> >	   use non-standard layouts and fixed length record formats.

> They are MY format; therefore they are standard for xbbs!

Fixed length record files are very rarely appropriate for a UNIX system.
Certainly a low-performance application like a BBS doesn't need them.
The downside obvious: you can't use an editor on them...
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