Subj : Re: My patched version
To   : Björn Felten
From : Ward Dossche
Date : Fri Jul 27 2018 01:25:02

BF> OK. Not too many fidonetters (not even my ZC) noticed my effort to take
BF> MAKENL into this new century.
 
I can't recall a single instance of having been informed ...
 
.... however ...
 
BF> ... I also fixed the equally
BF> stupid issue about BAUD rates (only six could be defined in the config
BF> file). But those latter improvements, I didn't even tell anyone about...
BF> 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.
 
BF> On: Sun 9 Jan 2000 17.41
BF> By: Björn Felten
BF> To: Robert Bashe
BF> Re: MakeNL
BF> St: Local
BF> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
....
BF> As Ward very well knows, I have done just that. I informed him several
BF> months ago of this, hoping he should pass on the information to his RC's,
BF> but I haven't seen anything in that direction -- at least not in
BF> REGCON.EUR.
 
BF> If you have the "genuine" MakeNl 2.51 (dated June 16th 1992, size
BF> 48,231b) you can apply the fix below and get it y2k-fixed. If you don't
BF> have exactly that version, you can freq MKNL from 2:203/0 or you can get
BF> 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.
 
 
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