Subj : *.MSG vs. packed help?
To   : Bob Jones
From : Mike Luther
Date : Sun Jul 08 2001 12:54 pm

Thanks .. Bob

 BJ> Ah.....  Do you code your own some times?

Unfortunately .. yes.  I spend most of my life at it .. gloom.

 BJ> Suggestions:

 BJ> (1) Pickup the MSGAPI documentation for squish and 
 BJ> roll a new program for MSG2ASK.EXE.

I was hoping to avoid that by something like ..

 BJ> (2) Toss all areas of interest to a point, and have 
 BJ> have the tool much the point data.

what you have just suggested above!  Thanks!  Maybe I can toss it to a point 
like you say, then on completion of the scan .. just clean the whole area 
involved in the toss!  Good idea.

 BJ> (3) Use an existing tool to produce the ASCII text straight out of the 
 BJ> squish database....  I'm sure I've seen such, just 
 BJ> don't remember where....

I'm looking more or less around .. The problem is that in order to do that it 
looks like I'll have to extract the whole message scholm, then and so on and so 
forth.  That's what I thought I was trying to avoid.

 BJ> Max when used with squish databases has a fairly good 
 BJ> search engine.  I take it you want more of a 
 BJ> relational database you can manipulate....

Yes .. I want to keep it in the same setup that's been here all these years

Thanks for the thoughts.


Mike @ 1:117/3001



--- Maximus/2 3.01
 * Origin: Ziplog Public Port (1:117/3001)

.