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Book of News, verse <mbs.4a71@adastra.cvl.va.us>: And Michael B. Smith spake:
| >
| > Gee, did you program it or what? Have I hit a sensitive spot?
| 
| I'm one of the programmers of it. I didn't originally code it.
| 
| You can call it poor programming all you wish; but until you
| give us something better, I think you should keep your mouth
| shut.

If you want to take a look at my programming knowledge, you should
take a look at the Video Backup System of LSP (version 3.0). I
programmed the complete user interface. Try putting it in some
weird video mode or with another font. Should work like a breeze.

| Does that mean you have "hit a sensitive spot"? Perhaps. I'm
| tired of people complaining about free software. Just utterly
| and completely tired of it.

I spend my days answering questions about Windows 95. Talking
about getting tired.

But I'm not complaining on the software as a whole, is works.
UUCP may not be the most flashy and hot GUI application, but
I've got few things to complain about it - except then, such
things as "maximum number of" hard coded stuff. I'm using it
for some time now and I'm happy with it.

| My comment regarding efficiency isn't redundant. Don't know
| why you would presume to state that it was.

I program efficiently. I coded a fractal program that put the
Mandelbrot set in 48 seconds on your screen on a stock A500
(no fast mem, no accel, 5 bitplanes, 64 iterations) without
ever using the hardware or bitmap memory (yes, with Move()
and Draw(), and without boundary tracing, just straight
calculating).

| If you think that porting Taylor UUCP will be easy to do, just
| time consuming, then I think you have another _several_ thinks
| coming your way.

I know that many people have tried it and came across difficulties.
I doubt that it will be different for me. But I won't know that
until I've tried that, won't I?

| There are quite a few things that could be improved in AmigaUUCP,
| but what the heck -- it meets the needs of 100's of people, and
| if they want to change something, the source is freely available.

I've done that earlier. Depending on the programming style of the
person before you it's slightly bothering to nearly unintelligable.
The first thing I do with someone else's code is reformat it.

| > | uucp:src/include/config.h:#define MAXFILES	1000 /* Max # of files in any news or spool directory */
| >
| > Just what I thought, poor programming.
| 
| You're wrong. Perhaps not the most desirable form, but it's a
| limit that works 99.99999% of the time. And guess what! The
| code doesn't crash when you exceed the limit, nor does it
| cost you a 20% or more performance hit for the other
| .000001% of the time.

I know, it's very improbable that one has more that 1000 batches
waiting. As it is improbable that the intuition.library is not
available, but still I check for it. But couldn't I have gotten
some kind of error message? I took me quite some time to figure
out why uuxqt thought that I didn't have any batches. Writing
batch files using "list lformat", the lot.

| > | I've been doing this since early 1992 with tn3270.device.
| >
| > Cool. I searched the Web for this device and nothing came up. Are you
| > sure it's available for us mere mortals?
| 
| Sure. It's part of a commercial software package called I-Net 225. What,
| you expect everything to be free? Sorry, the real world doesn't work that
| way.

No, I didn't think that, I was just wondering where it came from.
Someone suggested that it was some developer-only stuff. Appearantly
not.

I'm not trying to bark about someone else's free software, it's
just... ah, well. I'd be surprised myself if anything ever came
out of me looking at those Unix sources, but I will at least look.
A UUCP-package looking like those Windoze-programs might be just
what some people are looking for.

					Share and enjoy,
						Peter.
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"I don't use computers." -Irving Gould, former Commodore executive