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Subject: Re: another request Date: Mon Feb 14 2022 01:55 pm
From: g00r00 To: Marco R

 MR> I am working on some old filestat utils I created and was wondering if
 MR> you could add two date fields for files. 

There isn't any space left in those records without a change to the structure
but I will do it soon (tm).

They are mostly untouched since the 1990s when supporting long file names in a
BBS database caused me to be very lean on the data I stored for performance and 
memory reasons (Mystic had those ANSI scrolling file lists and long file name
support way back when DOS and 512kb memory was a thing and it had to allow you
to scroll freely through 10s of thousands of files within those limitations!)

Thats no longer as big of an issue so I will add those fields, but not in A48
as I plan to release that very soon (probably in a week or so) so I can get a
good stable version out there.

I'll probably do a revamp sometime after A48 which will include those fields
for you.  I need to revisit a lot of the old structures anyway to make sure
they are 2038 compatible!

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