On Tuesday 19 June 2001 10:03, John Chambers wrote:
>
> The biggest single problem is the damage caused by email line
> wrapping. This isn't caused by any single program. It's a systemic
> problem caused by many of the email packages that have been released
> in recent years. This isn't just a problem for abc; it is a serious
> problem that programmers have been fighting for decades. Line
> wrapping destroys code in most programming languages, and makes hash
> out of a lot of plain-text data files. So even if we adopt the
> abc2win approach to staff termination (not a bad idea), we don't even
> start to solve the problems with line wrapping.
Yup. It does hideous things to SQL code too. The scripts I routinely forward
to our DBA at work *must* be sent as attachments because of this.
> While working on my code to handle abc2win's variant syntax, it has
> occurred to me that bringing abc2win into the main line wouldn't be
> all that difficult. I haven't seen any messages from Jim Vint for
> some time, and there aren't any in my archived mail for 2 years, so I
> don't know whether he's even working on it. In any case, we have no
> way to demand that he do anything; he gave his program out for free,
> so all we can do is thank him for his work and then ask that he do
> some more work for us (for free). If he's too busy, we could also
> encourage someone with a Windows C development environment to take it
> off his hands and work on it.
I could be wrong, but I think it's in VB. IIRC it requires vbrun300.dll (?)
Wendy
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