PMMail Update Plans II - Response

[Douglas Tan]

On Wed, 8 Sep 1999 22:55:57 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>    Well, it comes down to the data structures inside, really.  I'm betting
>they have an unsigned int(?) as the timer.  That would be 32768.  That doesn't
>sound right.  Anyway, the next step up is  65536.  Who knows what the next
>step up after that is.  Point here is this, 86400 is that next step up which
>really goes much larger.  Ralph's idea of switching to minutes works, I think,
>all depending on what Windows & OS/2 gives them as a range for the alarm
>function.

You're right.  Minutes would be much more practical.  I just hope they can
finalise it at 86400 seconds, oops, I meant 1440 minutes. ;-)

>-- 
>         Steve C. Lamb         | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
>         ICQ: 5107343          | main connection to the switchboard of souls.


BTW, are you using Java ICQ?  How does it run on your system?  What FP
level are you at?


Doug