Squish 1 of 2

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 05-25-92 (19:42)             Number: 84
From: ZACK JONES                   Refer#: NONE
  To: STEVE MATHIESON               Recvd: NO  
Subj: Squish 1 of 2                  Conf: (2) Quik_Bas

 > Has anyone in here got the Squish API stuff for QB4.5? I've seen
 > it in C, and Pascal I believe but I don't know the first thing
 > about either. Has anyone done the conversion to QB??
Here's some stuff I captured a while back - it should help:

(215)   Tue 7 Apr 92 20:55
By: Francois Roy
To: Harvey Parisien
Re: Squish Bases in QB?
St:
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 >On (06 Apr 92) Francois Roy wrote to Gene Buckle...

 FR> So far, I have only managed to READ the Squish bases; I don't feel
 FR> confident enough yet to go and ENTER messages in there...

 >Very interested in your approach Francois.  Will you post it?

 Ok, first, here are the structures (at least what I could make of them: there
are more #define's and #ifdef's than useful info in that C stuff).  The next
msg explains how I use them.

TYPE SQIDX      ' .SQI file: one of these per message (12 bytes)
  OFFST  AS LONG
  UMSGID AS LONG
  HASH   AS LONG
END TYPE

TYPE SQBASE     ' .SQD database header (256 bytes): 1 per .SQD file
  SLEN    AS INTEGER
  RSVD1   AS INTEGER
  NUMMSG  AS LONG       ' No of msgs in area
  HIMSG   AS LONG       ' Highest msg number (same as NUMMSG)
  SKIPMSG AS LONG       ' # of msgs to protect from autoKill
  HIWATER AS LONG       ' Highwatermark
  UID     AS LONG       ' # of next UMSGID to use
  BASEID  AS STRING * 80' Name (incl path) of this message base
  FBEGIN  AS LONG       ' Offset to 1st frame
  FLAST   AS LONG       ' Offset to last frame
  FFBEGIN AS LONG       ' Offset to 1st free frame
  FFLAST  AS LONG       ' Offset to last free frame
  FEND    AS LONG       ' Offset to end of file
  MAXMSGS AS LONG       ' # of msgs to keep
  MAXDAYS AS INTEGER    ' # of days to keep msgs for
  SZSQHDR AS INTEGER    ' Size of SQHDR (32 bytes)
END TYPE

TYPE SQHDR
  ID     AS LONG
  NEXTF  AS LONG
  PREVF  AS LONG
  FLEN   AS LONG
  MSGLEN AS LONG
  CLEN   AS LONG
  FTYP   AS INTEGER
  RSVD   AS INTEGER
END TYPE

- Part 2 coming up.

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