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#WHAP Problems

    15-Jul-88 07:56:53
Fm: Gregory B. Tibbs 73767,456
Jim, that's OK for me as I am pretty much an AMIGAFORUM-only type person here on CIS. However, other users may belong to many other forums. I can see a problem co-ordinating the file naming conventions with all the sysops on all the forums. Any one sysop not knowing about (or not caring about) this problem may well re-introduce the bug at some later date. You might get some anti-amiga nut uploading files beginning with 'lib' just to make WHAP break. Since I can go into the catalog file and edit the problem file descriptor out with micro-emacs, it is no big deal for me. But for others it might. Not posting the fix may leave some people with enough of a bad taste in their mouth to not only decide to not buy WHAP!, but to usKh!"!inking of Jerry Pournelle) as another reason to say the Amiga is broke, barely working, kludgy, etc. Think about uploading the fix. You can always have the sysops replace the old WHAP.arc with the new one and upload a patch file for the people who downloaded Whap before the new post date. I would not feel bad about dl'ing the patch file even if it was 100K. -Greg