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    From Al Kaiser@1:142/926 to All on Fri Mar 30 19:10:35 2012
    I now see that part of the problem is that TERMAIL has the Y2K bug and that
    is why the header of any message that I replied to never had the correct date. Eliminating the date and time from the reply at least hid the problem but did not fix it.

    I did run the program from a straight WINDOW 98 system and I still can not get the Tagline manager to start the messges correctly with the HELLO.ENG files.

    Time to look to Golded +.

    Shame, to bad someone didn't take this program and reverse engineer it and update it to current standards. I did have a lot of nice features when it
    was working properly and was being maintained.

    Sorry to see it die like this. I guess the random tagline that came up
    is appropiate!!


    Al Kaiser n1api@cox.net <=-

    That's all for now!

    Al Kaiser - Meriden, CT, 30-Mar-2012 at 19:10.
    Fido : 1:142/926 - Internet : n1api@cox.net

    .!. Initiating, "Getting the hell out of here maneuver".
    --- Terminate 5.00/Pro
    * Origin: With Terminate YOU can beat the feeling! (1:142/926)
  • From Herman Neut@2:280/1141 to Al Kaiser on Sat Mar 31 13:26:14 2012
    Hi Al,


    Quoting: Al Kaiser to All
    Date/Time: 30-Mar-12 / 19:10:35
    Subject: Part of the problem discovered

    I now see that part of the problem is that TERMAIL has the Y2K bug
    and that is why the header of any message that I replied to never
    had the correct date. Eliminating the date and time from the reply
    at least hid the problem but did not fix it.

    I never had that problem with a wrong date in the header.
    Neither had my TERMAIL the Y2K bug.
    My TerMail runs fine with BinkD. No problem at al.

    The only problems I countered were Terminate with faster PC's. (Runtime
    error) Some parts of Terminate could be repaired with an special utility. (don't remember anymore
    how I did;-) TerMail had no "runtime error"


    I did run the program from a straight WINDOW 98 system and I still
    can not get the Tagline manager to start the messges correctly
    with the HELLO.ENG files.

    My TerMail runs under WidowsXP.

    Of course it will NEVER run on my 64 bits Widows7 machine ;-)


    Best Regards,
    Herman Neut

    e-mail: h.neutnospam@hccnet.nl
    Skype: herman_neut


    --- Terminate 5.00/Pro & BinkD/0.9.7-stable/Powered by WinXP
    * Origin: fido.hneut.nl connected by fibre-glass cable (2:280/1141)
  • From Al Kaiser@1:142/926 to Herman Neut on Sun Apr 1 19:02:46 2012
    Herman Neut wrote to Al Kaiser Subject: Part of the problem discovered

    Hi Al,

    I never had that problem with a wrong date in the header.
    Neither had my TERMAIL the Y2K bug. My TerMail runs fine with
    BinkD. No problem at al.


    Herman

    Well possibly it is the tagline program that has the Y2K bug. But the other problems that I have with TERMAIL makes me start to look at other programs. Termail will not pack the bases nor will it mass delete mail. None of the ALt-M functions work from the main screen. I have a messgege base with 0 messages in it that is 5 Meg in size because I can't compress it.

    It would have been wonderful if someone who had programming experience would have updated the program either from the source code or by reverse engineering after the program was abandoned by the author many years ago. I am surprised that the web page is even there, but I don't think that the files there even work. I tried to download the file and install it to a new directory just to see if I was missing anything or perhaps my EXE was corroupt but the file would not install. Even if TER500 was updated the other support programs like the tagline managers would need to be fixed too.

    Seems like the world has forgot about FIDO and there are just a few of us die hards left.


    Al Kaiser n1api@cox.net <=-






    Works for me!

    Al Kaiser - Meriden, CT, 01-Apr-2012 at 19:02.
    Fido : 1:142/926 - Internet : n1api@cox.net

    .!. When 900 years old you age, speak English as well as I do,
    .!. you will! - Yoda
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