Subj : Re: Allfix...
To   : Digital Man
From : Bill McGarrity
Date : Mon Jan 19 2015 23:11:00

-=> On 01-19-15 19:22, Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

Hiya DM...

 > -=> On 01-19-15 16:49, Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity <=
 >
 >
 >  > -=> On 01-19-15 07:29, Poindexter Fortran wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >  BM> I did originally run FCOMP 21 c:\sbbs\ctrl and ALLFIX did see all
 >  >  BM> the file areas correctly.
 >  >
 >  >  PF> What version of Synchronet and Allfix are you running? Although
 >  >  PF> fcomp seemed to work, I could never get it to write to the file
 >  >  PF> area -- instead I write to files.bbs and call ADDFILES.
 >  >
 >  >  PF> I'm running Synchronet 3.16 and ALLFIX version 5 -- could never get
 >  >  PF> 6.0.2x to work here consistently.
 >  >
 >  > I'm running 3.16a with v6 of ALLFIX.  I'm not asking it to write to the
 >  > filearea but to create a files.bbs by scanning each file area but it
 >  > doesn't. I'll try v5 and see what happens.  Do v5 need to be registered?
 >
 >  DM> The Synchronet FILELIST utility can be used to generate files.bbs for
 >  DM> each directory.
 >  DM> http://synchro.net/docs/utility_reference.html#FILELIST
 >
 > Thank you sir!!
 >
 > Worked like a charm... :)
 >
 > Another quick question, in my research I've been seeing/reading the
 > files.bbs is a 0 bit file?? Is it empty or should it have the entire list
 > of files in that directory for ALLFIX to work?

 DM> It depends on how you're using ALLFIX. If you're just using the
 DM> FILES.BBS as a way for ALLFIX to pass the file descriptions to
 DM> Synchronet (e.g. via ADDFILES), then the FILES.BBS will only contain
 DM> the file names and description of newly imported files and after
 DM> ADDFILES is run, the file is then truncated (to 0 bytes).

 DM> If you're going to use ALLFIX to hatch files from your BBS, then I
 DM> suspect the FILES.BBS will need to be current (have a current list of
 DM> file names and descriptions) with the Synchronet filebase and no
 DM> truncated (0 bytes in length).

I'll not be using ALLFIX to update the Synch filebase as TinyTic will do that
for now until I refamiliarize with ALLFIX.  I'll just be using it for FREQ and
for the FILEFIND echo.

Thanks again... :)


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