Well, it's not an exact quote, but he said something like that! I replied,
"Yes, that indeed certainly would be completely insane to do that." Then i
very briefly outlined some of the technical difficulties. I thought it was
a cute idea, but I didn't really feel like doing it. I have bigger fish to
fry, I thought! Little do I know.
Then one day, when the idea was probably long forgotten by Morten himself,
and certainly I had no idea whatsoever that I might implement it, I woke up
one day and... before I knew it I was playing around with the code and out
popped a primitive mapping scheme. (that would be the new /m switch... it's
completely useless!)
I thought that was very cute. Several hours later I had a better map (that
will be the /s switch) showing almost as useless information. Almost but
not quite. At least this map can show you a proportional representation of
the guts of your news.dat file. Yes, this *is* really useless information,
but it sure is neat!
You can do such fun things as make a map of your news.dat, then import
messages. Make another map and compare them. You, in the privacy of your
own home, not bothering anyone, can gaze at the wonderful kaleidoscope
effects of yarn import.exe moving things (as if by voodoo) around in the
news.dat file. Likewise with the possibly even more mysterious "expire"
program.
Furthermore (and i found this particularly interesting), you can adjust the
"chunk" resolution (how many bytes are represented by each character:
default is 1024 bytes, 1k) and crank it up to say 50k per chunk. I found
that interesting anyhow! I don't think I had better go into detail as to
why, lest there be any in the psychiatry field reading.
So, that's it! that's the big exciting new useless thing that you can play
with in NNIGN 2.0. There also is one sort-of bug fixed... sort of kludged
rather. If you had really big "big" "tiny" or "avg" the numbers might not
have showed up as they didn't fit. Now if it's too big the comma formatting
is not done so more can fit in. It's ugly when that happens, but at least
you can read the value.
(Sorry, Morten, I didn't think it was worth it to widen the thing a few
characters).
Supports OS/2 and DOS.
You can grab it directly, if you so desire, from:
http://www.io.org/~tm/files/nnign20.zip
or, as always, the web page down there at the bottom...
That's the whole story, honest.
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Tim Muddleton =-=-=- with love and squalor -=-=-= as544@torfree.net
-=-= Descent into Hell by Charles Williams: not what you think =-=-
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