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2.3 Support, Contacting the Author, Reporting Bugs, Contributing Code

There are numerous reasons why you might wish to establish contact with me, the author of HPT.

  1. You have decided to use HPT on a regular basis. In this case, please do send me an e-mail at the address listed below. How much time I will spend on developing HPT in the future will heavily depend on the number of mails I receive from users that tell me that they do use HPT.

  2. You have a general questions on how to configure or on how to use a certain feature of HPT. In other words, you need support. In this case, you'd best post your question to one of the following echos:

    FIDOSOFT.HUSKY
    The international Husky conference. English is the preferred language here.
    RU.HUSKY
    This Russian echo covers Husky Project. I monitor it regularly.
    RU.ECHOPROCESSORS
    Russian talks about echoprocessors. I monitor it regularly.

    If you do not have access to any of these echos, you may of course also contact me via netmail or e-mail at the addresses listed below.

  3. You want to report a bug. There are two sorts of bugs:

    1. Normal bugs. You think that a certain function of HPT does not work as expected, e.g. it is producing garbage, or doing strange things, or similar. In this case, either post to the echos listed above, or contact me via netmail. Please do supply all information that is necessary to understand your problem.

    2. Fatal bugs. A fatal bug occurs if HPT crashes. Depending on your operating system, the symptom might be a core dump, or a SYS 3175, or a general protection fault, or a system lockup, or a spontaneous reboot. I do consider a crash untolerable. No matter how stupid things you do, you should not be able to crash HPT.

      If you are experienced user and get core dump, you can send me gdb report. If you have a crash, locate `core' file that has been generated. Then run $ gdb hpt core, type where. HPT must be compiled with debug information (DEBUG=1 in `huskymak.cfg' file). Then send report to address below.

      If you are running any other binary version (like Windows), you will not get a core file on a crash. Write down as much information as you can, try to find a way to reproduce the crash and contact me at the addresses below.

  4. You want to contribute to HPT. If you are a programmer and have fixed a problem in on your own, please submit your changes to me. The preferred way for doing so is to send me a difference file in GNU diff format (with -c parameter). Your work will be highly appreceated and honored in an appropriate place. If you want to regularly work on HPT, we also have a CVS server online that you can have access to if you like.

    If you want to write a new feature for HPT, please contact me beforehand to avoid that we do duplicate work. Again, I will appreciate and honor eny efforts done by you. Please note that for writing a HPT enhancement, you should be familiar with C. Also, HPT uses a special indentation style throughout the source code, that I would like you to adhere to.

So here are my addresses if you want to get in contact with me:


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