Hi everyone,

I successfully set up Blue Wave for Maximus, however, it's suffering from the Y2K bug. I do have some sort of fix for it (Dale, I think it's your utility you wrote). Where do I put this fix in at in the packet creation process?

Thanks,
Sean

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Quoting Sean Dennis to All <=-

I successfully set up Blue Wave for Maximus, however, it's suffering
from the Y2K bug. I do have some sort of fix for it (Dale, I think
it's your utility you wrote). Where do I put this fix in at in the
packet creation process?

If you can't figure it out let me know. I have my desktop computer
setup again and as far as I know still have the VM that run maximus
in a bootable state.

I remember something about writing mecca scripts to upload packets outside
of the door and then process them in the background but I don't remember
why I had to do that.

Shawn

... Wow! Look at the _size_ of that... Briefcase.
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Hello, Shawn!

Replying to a message of Shawn Highfield to Sean Dennis:

I remember something about writing mecca scripts to upload packets outside of the door and then process them in the background but I
don't remember why I had to do that.

The door itself is working just fine when it comes to packets transferring back
and forth. I noticed, however, that netmails that I receive through the BW door have the year of "118" on them. It's only netmail though; for some odd reason echomail isn't affected and that doesn't make any sense to me.

Thanks for the offer of help. Might have to take you up on it. :)

Later,
Sean

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On 03-12-18 22:43, Sean Dennis <=-
spoke to All about Setting up Y2K fix for BW <=-

I successfully set up Blue Wave for Maximus, however, it's
suffering from the Y2K bug. I do have some sort of fix for
it (Dale, I think it's your utility you wrote). Where do I
put this fix in at in the packet creation process?

My fix was a bandaid designed for fixing the REP (reply to QWK) packet
for the Bluewave user reader. I never tried doing anything for the
BLUEWAVE door on Maximus. Perhaps some others did -- check the WIKI
article on BlueWave to see if there is any recent discussion there.

In fact, my fix is obsolete now that Richard Backus has supplied a true
patch for the reader. If that is not described in the WIKI, then
perhaps you might ask him (through Nancy).

Dale Shipp
fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
(1:261/1466)


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Hi Dale,

In fact, my fix is obsolete now that Richard Backus has supplied a true patch for the reader. If that is not described in the WIKI, then
perhaps you might ask him (through Nancy).

Nancy reported to me tonight that she didn't see any Y2K issues though I saw a netmail with a year of "118" that I'd pulled down through the BW/Max door. If that's all there is for the problem, I'll just leave it. No use in going berserk over it if Nancy gives it her stamp of approval.

I ususally read my mail online through the BBS or a sysop mail reader (I have GoldEd, timEd, and FleetStreet installed on the BBS machine) though pulling down an occasional packet for perusal while on lunch at work isn't out of the question.

Thanks for answering me. :)

Later,
Sean


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Quoting Sean Dennis to Shawn Highfield <=-

The door itself is working just fine when it comes to packets
transferring back and forth. I noticed, however, that netmails that I receive through the BW door have the year of "118" on them. It's only netmail though; for some odd reason echomail isn't affected and that doesn't make any sense to me.

I may have had that issue to and just left it alone or stopped sending
netmail. ;)

Thanks for the offer of help. Might have to take you up on it. :)

Anytime just give me the nod and I'll fire it up (or attempt to)

Shawn

... Useless Invention: Self stick frying pan.
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Quoting Sean Dennis to Dale Shipp <=-

I ususally read my mail online through the BBS or a sysop mail reader
(I have GoldEd, timEd, and FleetStreet installed on the BBS machine) though pulling down an occasional packet for perusal while on lunch at work isn't out of the question.

I prefer a sysop reader, my problem is when I'm in the woods I have no
afforable internet so I tried a year with a point package and that worked
perfectly UNTIL I came home and left the laptop at the trailer. That's
why I switched back to BW year round.

This year as I'm living in the trailer for the season I may try my point
package again. Or I may not. <G>

Shawn

... Strip her, bathe her, and bring her to my tent.
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Hello Shawn.

14 Mar 18 11:22, you wrote to me:

This year as I'm living in the trailer for the season I may try my
point
package again. Or I may not. <G>

I loved Sempoint. It was a point system that I could use nicely with Squish and still hatch out Cheepware stuff (!). Now I'm wandering off-topic. :D

I did discover I installed BW 3.11 instead of BW 3.20. I'm going to try to upgrade this weekend and see if that makes a difference.

Later,
Sean

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Hi Nancy,

Is this on the messages themselves or is it the packet manager of the reader...? My fixed version of the reader shows the date of the packet with the year as 118 (a packet there from 2001 shows up as 101)... that
is as it should be...

I saw the date when reading the message in Multimail, so if you say that's what
it's supposed to be, then it's working. Once I get a chance to set up 3.20, I'll apply Richard's fix to it.

But at least it's working so far! I'm really happy I was able to figure out how to get that working.

--Sean


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Quoting Sean Dennis to Nancy Backus on 15 Mar 118 23:33:04 <=-

Is this on the messages themselves or is it the packet manager of the
reader...? My fixed version of the reader shows the date of the packet
with the year as 118 (a packet there from 2001 shows up as 101)... that
is as it should be...

I saw the date when reading the message in Multimail, so if you say
that's what it's supposed to be, then it's working.

It shouldn't be showing up on the message, though.... that might be a
problem in how Multimail is seeing it... it's ok when you see it as a
date on a message packet in the Bluewave Reader....

Once I get a chance to set up 3.20, I'll apply Richard's fix to it.

As I think I said in the bbs Living Room area, Richard thinks he fixed
that one already for you... :) It would be included in the zip file
with all the fix... ;)

But at least it's working so far! I'm really happy I was able to
figure out how to get that working.

I was quite happy to see the proper BlueWave door opening screen show
up... and then to ba able to use it as designed... :)

ttyl neb

... Looking for X's good side. Still circling.
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As I think I said in the bbs Living Room area, Richard thinks he fixed that one already for you... :) It would be included in the zip file
with all the fix... ;)

But at least it's working so far! I'm really happy I was able to figure out how to get that working.

I also have the bbs software available on the bbs. Can you please tell me
where I get that patch?

Thanks


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Quoting ptaylor to Nancy Backus on 01-Oct-2018 22:21 <=-

As I think I said in the bbs Living Room area, Richard thinks he fixed
that one already for you... :) It would be included in the zip file
with all the fix... ;)

But at least it's working so far! I'm really happy I was able to
figure out how to get that working.

I also have the bbs software available on the bbs. Can you please tell
me where I get that patch?
Thanks

Mark Lewis has a fairly complete set of files relating to BlueWave,
including the Y2K patch Richard made.... it has the patched reader, at
least one door, and the instructions for patching other doors.... Look
for bw-y2k.zip and bw-y2kpb.zip in the bluewave files on
bbs.wpusa.dynip.com (now pointing to SouthEast Star BBS, was Waldo's
Place)... Richard recently tried to upload it here too, on Tiny's BBS,
but doesn't think it took.... but you could check for it here... :)

ttyl neb

... Deja Ooooo: The feeling that you've stepped into this before.

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