Subj : Squish message linking bug?
To   : Oli
From : andrew clarke
Date : Wed Feb 17 2021 12:06 pm

On 20 Jan 21 09:18:48, Oli (2:280/464.47) wrote to All:

 Ol> Is there a known bug with the SQUISH LINK command? Message linking
 Ol> doesn't work properly on my Linux armv7 build. It seems to link every
 Ol> message to the previous and the next, but only if there is a REPLY
 Ol> kludge. Looks like this in Golded:

 Ol> [...]

 Ol> Any ideas? Does this happen on DOS, OS/2 or Windows too or is it a
 Ol> Linux specific bug?

MSGID/REPLY threading worked well in the original 1.11 release on DOS & OS/2.

I can't vouch for the Linux port of Squish. I don't think it got a lot of testing. Among other things you might have C structure alignment/padding inconsistencies on ARM that weren't present on the i386 build.

I recall Bob Jones disappeared from Fido only a few years after porting Maximus (which included Squish) to Linux in 2003.

Maybe it was Scott Dudley in disguise! Probably not.

These days I think everyone using Squish bases on Linux/BSD are using Husky's HPTLINK. I vaguely recall HPTLINK is a bit more intelligent than SQUISH LINK anyway.

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