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I have a suggestion for a WWIV mod, and would like to hear from an "in the
know" person for these sort of things...

My system consists of a 286-16 with 1meg of RAM, 150meg HD, and two really
old Hitachi CD-ROM drives.  Everything is working properly and has been
tested thoroughly.  I recently tried installing WWIV 4.21 and have had a
few concerns about how it handles its download directories.  From what I
gather, each DL sub must have a cooresponding disk drive directory.  This
is fine for my hard drive, but the CD-ROM disks are usually divided up
into 30 or more directories.  Having a sub for directory will make over 60
DL subs for my CD-ROM drives alone!  This really bites...

However, I had an idea for changing the "uploadsrec" structure and the
cooresponding support code to handle pathnames as well as filenames.  This
would supercede the path entry in the DIRS.DAT file.  Now, I know this will
make the .DIR files a bit larger, but heck, it won't be that bad!  This
little change would allow you to keep files in multiple directories and just
change their path in the subs' .DIR file to change their position.  It would
make read-only and write-once devices much easier to use on WWIV.

After perusing my friend's code, I don't think that it would be too diffi-
cult to modify WWIV to support this since it seems pretty flexible.  However,
I'm not that familiar with the code and it's not documented very well.
This is where I need the help.  If you have any suggestions or would like to
make the mod for me :) then please send me message at the address below!

Thanks for your time!

Chuck Rickard
(chuck@umbc5.umbc.edu)
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Chuck Rickard
(chuck@umbc5.umbc.edu)