• AllFix

    From mark lewis@1:3634/12.71 to all on Wed Nov 26 15:09:17 2014

    please address responses to Robert Wolfe in this echo... i'm forwarding this to
    assist him in getting the area created on his system since traffic in it has beennon-existant in recent months...

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    * Originally from Robert Wolfe (1:116/18) to All.
    * Original dated: Tue Nov 25, 23:08

    Hello everybody.

    Just curious. Has anyone else installed the latest Allfix release? I have it up and running here -- sort of. The problem I am getting is that while it moves inbound files to the correct download directories, I am not seeing where it is updating or creating files.bbs files in each directory. Is there a setting that I am missing here?

    Robert

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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:116/18 to Mark Lewis on Wed Nov 26 16:41:12 2014

    please address responses to Robert Wolfe in this
    echo... i'm forwarding this to assist him in getting
    the area created on his system since traffic in it has
    beennon-existant in recent months...

    Thanks! Area was autocreated by FastEcho/2 without any issues :) Hopefully I should be able to get a response here :) Thanks again!



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  • From Paul Hayton@3:770/100 to Robert Wolfe on Thu Nov 27 20:18:19 2014
    On 11/26/14, Robert Wolfe pondered and said...

    Thanks! Area was autocreated by FastEcho/2 without any issues :) Hopefully I should be able to get a response here :) Thanks again!

    Hi Robert.

    I'm no guru at Allfix but have begun to use ALLFIX 6.0.24 for DOS recently.
    Not sure if that's the version you refer to? There may be others lurking that can chime in with better knowledge. How can I help you :-)

    Best, Paul


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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:116/18 to Paul Hayton on Thu Nov 27 03:20:22 2014
    Hello Paul.

    27 Nov 14 20:18, you wrote to me:

    I'm no guru at Allfix but have begun to use ALLFIX 6.0.24 for DOS recently. Not sure if that's the version you refer to? There may be
    others lurking that can chime in with better knowledge. How can I help
    you :-)

    Yes, 6.0.24 for OS/2. Here is a short snippet of the error message I get when I go to process TIC files:

    Processing C:\FE\INBOUND\bb761305.tic from 1:261/38
    └ (by BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-2)
    Area PASCLNET
    File PASNLIST.Z31
    Desc Pascal-Net Daily made nodelist
    Crc EF58FC5C
    Path 115:115/16 1417073005 Thu Nov 27 07:23:25 2014 UTC HTick/lnx 1.4.0-sta 17-0
    3-10
    Path 1:261/38.0 @141127023636 EST+5
    Warn Unable to update file database!
    Msg Skipping 1:261/38, already in seenby list
    Msg Error opening 'C:\fe\allfix\FILEDUPE.FIX'


    Robert

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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:116/18 to Paul Hayton on Thu Nov 27 17:38:00 2014
    I'm no guru at Allfix but have begun to use ALLFIX
    6.0.24 for DOS recently.
    Not sure if that's the version you refer to? There may
    be others lurking that
    can chime in with better knowledge. How can I help you :-)

    I think I found the bug in the current allfix release. It seems that if there is no FILES.BBS existing in the file directory, then the program will not automatically create a new one. I wrote a program for OS/2 (and Windows) that I use to create FILES.BBS files after I create the physical directory of any file echo I set up on disk. AllFix! finds the 0-byte FILES.BBS file and then updates it as necessary. Hopefully this issue will be fixed in an updated release.

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Robert Wolfe on Fri Nov 28 09:10:00 2014
    Robert Wolfe wrote to Paul Hayton <=-

    I think I found the bug in the current allfix release. It seems that
    if there is no FILES.BBS existing in the file directory, then the
    program will not automatically create a new one. I wrote a program for OS/2 (and Windows) that I use to create FILES.BBS files after I create
    the physical directory of any file echo I set up on disk. AllFix!
    finds the 0-byte FILES.BBS file and then updates it as necessary. Hopefully this issue will be fixed in an updated release.

    Weird -- from what I can tell, ALLFIX 5.13 doesn't have this bug.

    ALLFIX 6.0 also had that memory/crash issue that I couldn't resolve; I'd
    love to see a new version that had the memory issues fixed and could write directly to Synchronet 3.x file areas. I'd venture a guess that a good
    portion of the BBS systems running today are Mystic and Synchronet, and I
    think Mystic has its' own TIC support built in.



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  • From Andrew Leary@1:320/219 to Kurt Weiske on Mon Dec 22 16:46:59 2014
    Hello Kurt!

    28 Nov 14 09:10, you wrote to Robert Wolfe:

    ALLFIX 6.0 also had that memory/crash issue that I couldn't resolve;
    I'd love to see a new version that had the memory issues fixed and
    could write directly to Synchronet 3.x file areas. I'd venture a guess that a good portion of the BBS systems running today are Mystic and Synchronet, and I think Mystic has its' own TIC support built in.

    Several times I've considered dropping back to 5.13, but since I would basically have to nuke my setup and start over, I haven't taken the time to do it. There's also an issue that the latest beta versions can't properly read the configuration from my 6.00.18 Universal version, so to go in that direction I would also have to nuke my setup and start over.

    Andrew


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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Andrew Leary on Mon Dec 22 15:11:41 2014
    Re: AllFix
    By: Andrew Leary to Kurt Weiske on Mon Dec 22 2014 04:46 pm

    Several times I've considered dropping back to 5.13, but since I would basically have to nuke my setup and start over, I haven't taken the time to do it. There's also an issue that the latest beta versions can't properly read the configuration from my 6.00.18 Universal version, so to go in that direction I would also have to nuke my setup and start over.

    I did and was happy I did. I only had a dozen or so nodes and 2 dozen areas so it wasn't a huge issue, but knowing it's always going to work made the downtime (a couple of hours with the kids asleep and a couple of fingers of a nice 18 year old single malt scotch) worth it.
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