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- From: Hunter Goatley <goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
- Subject: RE: The case problem
- Message-ID: <0096542D.F9FA7280.9679@WKUVX1.BITNET>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 07:24:54 CST
- Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
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- Per Hogstedt <hogstedt@plab.se> writes:
- >
- >Matt spoke:
- >>Definitely a bug in MLF. I forgot to update the FILESERV_CHECK_ACCESS routine
- >>(in module FILESERV.B32) to handle NOCASE-set mailing list users. Thanks
- >>for finding it.
- >
- >Since the case sensitivity problem has been a bit disturbing, I'd like to know
- >if there is any chance that this could be corrected before the next release
- >of MX (3.1d?). I don't know how extensive the update would be, but if there
- >is anyone out there planning to hack away, I am interested to know and if
- >possible help.
- >
- I've fixed this for the next release of MX. I'm shooting for a
- mid-to-late-January release of MX v3.1D. It'll feature mostly little
- fixes to annoying problems like this one. I'm also alpha-testing new
- FLQ routines that Matt wrote in BLISS (the old routines were written
- in PL/1). The new FLQ stuff still uses the ISAM queue file, but it
- now uses subdirectories of FLQ_DIR to store messages to try to
- alleviate problems with the QUEUE.DIR file getting larger than 128
- blocks. The BLISS rewrite was necessary to get MX working on Alpha,
- which has been partially done.
-
- Here's my planned schedule. My wife has got my Christmas break all
- planned out for me 8-), so I won't be able to work on MX much, if at
- all, over the next three weeks. Around 1/14/93 (can you believe
- another year has gone by?), I hope to finish adding bug fixes, maybe a
- new feature or two, then build an installation kit for beta-testing.
- Once at least one other person successfully runs V3.1D 8-), I'll
- release it.
-
- Once v3.1D is released, I plan to spend time finishing the port of MX
- to Alpha. Matt has successfully sent a mail message from MX on an
- Alpha, but it has *not* been thoroughly tested yet. I hope to have MX
- v3.1D running (and tested) on Alpha by the end of February. After
- *that*, it is my intention to replace the ISAM SYSTEM_QUEUE.FLQ_CTL
- file with a more efficient method.
-
- Naturally, the comments above state my *plans*. I'm going to do my
- best to meet the deadlines I've set, but I make no warranties,
- guarantees, promises, oaths, etc., that it'll actually happen then.
- 8-)
-
- Hunter
- ------
- Hunter Goatley, VMS Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University
- goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET, 502-745-5251
-