🚀 go-pugleaf

Chris Croughton (chris@keris.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> I've rebuilt KA9Q 2.16d, but all it does is clear the screen and then
> lock up (CTRL-ALT-DEL works, but nothing else).  I rebuilt it using the
> makefile using BC++ 4.02 and maker - so as not to change the makefile
> at all, I did:

>     maker INCLUDE=-Iconfig.lge net.exe

> which is what building 'net' does anyway (except it uses pamake).  The
> exe file is bigger than the released one (426,830 bytes vs. 414,730
> bytes for the 'official' one), which may be because I'm using a
> different version of the compiler.

> What version of BC++ are you using?  Has anyone else had this problem?

Borland C++ 3.1

> Also, looking at the config files I notice that although SLIP is
> disabled the Van Jacobson TCP compression for SLIP is on.  Is there some
> arcane reason for this?

None I know off :)

> (Sources from KA9Q216D.ZIP)

> Incidentally, the reason I wanted to recompile it was to change the NNTP
> time it sets back the clock before writing NNTP.DAT.  At the moment it's
> 2 minutes, but there was talk ages ago (before Malcolm took over
> maintaining it) of making this configurable so those of us who use
> several news servers (or have non-accurate clocks) could make it larger.
> Perhaps this could go back on the "to do" list...

Not on the list I recall, but it can be. I am still fighting the PPP
negotiation stuff. I am close, but not quite there yes.

-- 
Malcolm S. Muir
Sunderland
England