Quoting Sean Dennis to Dallas Hinton on 12 Jan 10 00:02:38 <=-
So my question today is for Max BBS sysops under Windows XP -- could someone please point me at the necessary patches?
Uh, well, I'm not quite sure about the Blue Wave door patch. Nancy's husband did a hex edit of the 16-bit DOS BW door EXE for Telegard that patched the problems there. I think you might be able to use Dale
Shipp's Y2K fix for the BW door (Dale?) for Maximus.
Dale's fix was only for the REP (reply) packets from QWK message
packets. The patch that hubby applied to the TG door is applicable to
any other BW door, so it should work for Maximus also. As I understand
it, one has to have the door actually installed to be able to apply the
fix, so he only did the one that he had access to, thanks to Mike. But
the tools are all in the same ZIP file that has the fixed TG door and
the fixed reader(s). Look for BW-Y2K.ZIP and if you can't find it, I've
got it and could attach to email... :)
Having said that, though, Maximus was the one software that I knew of
that seemed to have had a Y2K fix early on... whether that was done on
an individual basis, or whether there was in fact some sort of patch
just for the Maximus BW door, I don't know. And if there was, whether
or not, and where, it might be... ;)
I think I'll shut up now and let someone more knowledgable answer. :)
(Good idea... <G>)
ttyl neb
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