OK. Not too many fidonetters (not even my ZC) noticed my effort to take MAKENL into this new century.

I can't recall a single instance of having been informed ...

... however ...

... I also fixed the equally
stupid issue about BAUD rates (only six could be defined in the config file). But those latter improvements, I didn't even tell anyone about... 8-)

The config-file in use here has 10 (=ten) baudrates mentioned. This goes back to the day when Bob Satti was still Z1C ... that's pre-1999 ...

Other than that, the 2.51 manual which I printed-out in those days and which lies nicely opened on my desk right now reads verbatim on page-26, section 6.1.8:

To accommodate future growth, the "valid baud rate" table is
configurable through the use of the BAUdrate verb. The
<valid_baud_rates> parameter is a list of up to twelve (12)
valid baud rates (numeric strings) separated by commas.

Nothing there about 6 baudrates.

On: Sun 9 Jan 2000 17.41
By: Björn Felten
To: Robert Bashe
Re: MakeNL
St: Local -------------------------------------------------------------------------

...

As Ward very well knows, I have done just that. I informed him several months ago of this, hoping he should pass on the information to his RC's, but I haven't seen anything in that direction -- at least not in REGCON.EUR.

If you have the "genuine" MakeNl 2.51 (dated June 16th 1992, size
48,231b) you can apply the fix below and get it y2k-fixed. If you don't have exactly that version, you can freq MKNL from 2:203/0 or you can get
it on the web as www.fidonet.pp.se/nodlistan/mknl.zip.

Up until 3 weeks ago it was exactly that 1992-version which has been used here ... except that when loaded it displays June 14 of that year.

Zero complaints during all those years other than the requests to upgrade to makenl_ng.


\%/@rd

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I can't recall a single instance of having been informed ...

The message I quoted was from ENET.SYSOP. Didn't you have access to
that January 9, 2000?

I have no means of verifying ... and does it really matter?

\%/@rd

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OK. Not too many fidonetters (not even my ZC) noticed my effort to take MAKENL into this new century. And -- needless to say -- I didn't get much appreciation
for it either. Even though even Robert Bashe himself promised me I would. :)

And, as it now turns out, I didn't only fix the Y2K issue, I also fixed the stupid ASCII issue. On top of that I also fixed the equally stupid issue about BAUD rates (only six could be defined in the config file). But those latter improvements, I didn't even tell anyone about... 8-)


----[ ENET.SYSOP ]------------------------------------------------------------ On: Sun 9 Jan 2000 17.41
By: Björn Felten
To: Robert Bashe
Re: MakeNL
St: Local ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If you are good enough to patch the binary with a
debugger, go right ahead. Many people would be grateful
to you for that.

As Ward very well knows, I have done just that. I informed him several months ago of this, hoping he should pass on the information to his RC's, but I
haven't seen anything in that direction -- at least not in REGCON.EUR.

If you have the "genuine" MakeNl 2.51 (dated June 16th 1992, size 48,231b) you can apply the fix below and get it y2k-fixed. If you don't have exactly that version, you can freq MKNL from 2:203/0 or you can get it on the web as www.fidonet.pp.se/nodlistan/mknl.zip.

_ _o_/_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _p_a_t_c_h_._b_a_t_ _ _ _
O \
ren makenl.exe makenl
debug makenl < patch.bat > nul
goto end
e 325 eb
e 7b2 eb
e 36ca e8 9b 5d 53 50 90
e 36e6 18 0
e 9468 8b 44 0a b3 64 f6 f3 86
e 9470 c4 98 8b 5c 04 c3 e2 00 25 73 20 25 32 64 20 25
e 9480 73 20 25 30 32 64 20 25 30 32 64 3a 25 30 32 64 00
e a2cb 32
w
q

:end
ren makenl makenl.exe

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If you have the "genuine" MakeNl 2.51 (dated June 16th 1992,
size 48,231b) you can apply the fix below and get it y2k-fixed. If
you don't have exactly that version, you can freq MKNL from 2:203/0
or you can get it on the web as
www.fidonet.pp.se/nodlistan/mknl.zip.

_ _o_/_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _p_a_t_c_h_._b_a_t_ _ _ _
O \

that's -=*exactly*=- what i used so long ago to get my copy :)

it is the makenl i've been using all these years as well as one of several i used in the recent testing wherein i reported my results in this echo :)

)\/(ark

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Hello Björn!

12 Jan 2013 19:59, Björn Felten wrote to All:

ren makenl makenl.exe

now make it into the current makenl is easy ? :=)

patch that is applyed localy stays localy


Regards Benny

... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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I can't recall a single instance of having been informed ...

The message I quoted was from ENET.SYSOP. Didn't you have access to that January 9, 2000?

<valid_baud_rates> parameter is a list of up to twelve (12)
valid baud rates (numeric strings) separated by commas.

Nothing there about 6 baudrates.

So, I remembered wrong after 13 years. Fact of the matter still is, in my patched version there are *no* limitations whatsoever.

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