Subj : Wildcat! v4.20
To   : All
From : Joe Martin
Date : Tue Jan 01 2019 10:14:48

Hi folks...

I had an experience today I thought I would share with you.

When logging into Wildcat! v4.20 this morning, I received some netmail
messages and was replying to one which sent me off to ViaADDR!, the
netmail 'door' which happily allowed me to accept the reply address.

Upon recycling back to the BBS, Wildcat! detected I was out of time
and promptly kicked me off stating I had exceeded my time limit.
Obviously that wasn't the case (I had only been on a few minutes) so the
whole thing sounded way too familiar.

So I ran up my PATCHWC v3.00 program and checked the Epoch date on the
WILDCAT.EXE and sure enough, it was set for 1919.  Since today is the
first day of 2019, this was the exact reason PATCHWC.EXE was created
for.

So I ran up PATCHWC.EXE and changed the Epoch date to 1930 and ran it
against Wildcat!'s executables.  Subsequent attempts at replying to
netmails in Wildcat! were now successful and life is good.

Long story short, if you run DOORs (of any kind) and have not patched
your Wildcat! EXEs, or if your Epoch date was set to 1919 (as was mine),
then you'll need to run PATCHWC against it and use at least 1920 as the
Epoch date.  If you need a copy of the program (it's free), let me know
and I'll make it available for you.

Regards,

Joe Martin

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