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This is beta software, which means it has not yet been fully tested in
the real world. Accordingly, all necessary caution must be exercised
when using it. Necessary caution include keeping a backup copy of the
message bases SqTool modifies, and monitoring messages written by
SqTool.
Comments regarding the documentation are extremely encouraged.
Possible problems :
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* Processing of the AREAS.BBS file may be incorrect, specially for those
which include unsupported message bases type (only Squish and *.msg
are supported). The aka information in the AREAS.BBS file is not used,
since it appears that only a 3D information is mentioned even on a
point (4D) system.
* Kludge lines of more than 254 character will be cut when reading
messages.
* A special care should be paid to the kludges generated in messages
written by SqTool, and to addresses in the header fields. Depending on
the kind of area written to, various kludge lines are generated, which
should be checked. Potential problems may lie in answering to an
EchoMail message into a NetMail area, or answering accross networks.
* Some error and warning messages may be unclear. Please report
misspelled, incorrect or otherwise weird error messages.
* Since, as far as I know, *.msg message bases provide no locking
mechanism, I strongly discourage you to access the same *.msg base
from two sessions (running whichever program, including but not
limited to SqTool) at the same time. On the other hand, Squish bases
should behave nicely.
* Country-specific information should be watched. Depending on the
COUNTRY setting in your CONFIG.SYS, different formats are used for
time and date displays (specially in the log file), etc.
* Running external commands is done through the command processor, which
is determined from the COMSPEC environment variable. I can't imagine
why this could be a problem, but let me know if it is.
Raphaël Vanney.