Hello, Tommi!

Replying to a message of Tommi Koivula to Daniel Path:

Feel free to freq magic BINKD2 any time from here and you'll get the nightly version. :)

I am currently working on my BBS that is not happy with my old nodelist setup (it will not send out FREQs or crash netmail to systems who are not in my node manager). I am getting ready to retire Internet Rex after 23 years of use and am going to go to BinkD. Could you email me at sysop@outpostbbs.net and we could work out an arrangement to get your build of BinkD?

Also, what do you use for SRIF processing with BinkD?

Later,
Sean
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Wednesday July 07 2021 18:10, Sean Dennis wrote to Tommi Koivula:

Feel free to freq magic BINKD2 any time from here and you'll get the
nightly version. :)

I am currently working on my BBS that is not happy with my old nodelist setup
(it will not send out FREQs or crash netmail to systems who are not in my node
manager). I am getting ready to retire Internet Rex after 23 years of use and
am going to go to BinkD. Could you email me at sysop@outpostbbs.net and we
could work out an arrangement to get your build of BinkD?

My build is available as freq magic BINKD2 here. It works in *my* system very well. No warranty. :)

Also, what do you use for SRIF processing with BinkD?

And if you do the freq, you will see that ALLFIX is used here as SRIF.

== binkd.conf ==
exec !"4os2.exe /c allfix.exe rp -srif *S" *.req
== binkd.conf ==

'Tommi

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Hello Torsten,

Allfix is tooo much and too big for a simple request job.
;-)

I use mfreq here on my linux box to handle requests. I haven't tried the OS/2 version but I have seen an OS/2 version 3.17 around and about. mfreq supports SmartMagic that works nicely to send a requester the latest file from a file area. That's handy in areas like fidonews or nodelist when filenames change frequently.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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You wouldn't happen to have a copy of that mfreq handy would you?

Yes, it should be in your inbound, MFREQ317.ZIP.

Also, did you receive the netmail I sent you to your point address?

Yes, I have a bit of work to do here but I'm hoping to get that done in the next 10 days or so. I'll reply to your netmail shortly.

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Hi Torsten.

17 Jul 21 01:04:10, you wrote to me:

Also, what do you use for SRIF processing with BinkD?

And if you do the freq, you will see that ALLFIX is used here as SRIF.

Allfix is tooo much and too big for a simple request job.
;-)

Yes, but according to the author Harald Harms, it is "Simply the best". ;-)

'Tommi

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Hi Sean.

19 Jul 21 18:03:44, you wrote to me:

Yes, but according to the author Harald Harms, it is "Simply the
best". ;-)

Harald passed away some years ago.

Oh, bad news. I didn't know that. :(

I have tried to contact Allfix's current maintainer via netmail and in
the ALLFIX_HELP echo but no answer. That makes me a bit suspect.

IMHO, Allfix died when Harald stopped the development.

I tried to upgrade my Allfix to newer versions few times, but no success. Maybe a setup from scratch might work, but I see no reason to do that. The last version from Harald works quite fine. (ALLFIX/2 for OS/2 Warp, v6.00.018 09-Jul-00 14:20)

'Tommi

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On 20.7.2021 17:29, Sean Dennis wrote:

Tuesday July 20 2021 18:47, you wrote to me:

I tried to upgrade my Allfix to newer versions few times, but no success. Maybe a setup from scratch might work, but I see no reason to do that. The last version from Harald works quite fine. (ALLFIX/2 for OS/2 Warp, v6.00.018 09-Jul-00 14:20)

I'll look and see if I can find that version of ALLFIX.

Seems to be available for download there -> http://www.allfix.com

I am using NEF and it works great but having the SRIF and filefind
functions would be handy. I'm cleaning up 20 years worth of mess on
the BBS and finding stuff I didn't realize I still had anymore.

It is always nice to find something old in your hard disk. My OS/2 has some old DOS tools from '80's in C:\ :D

'Tommi
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On 21.7.2021 17:07, Sean Dennis wrote:

I found several half-finished BBS doors hiding. I am working on
porting my development environment so I will be able to provide DOS,
OS/2, Win32 and Win64, Linux, and WINserver-native doors from the
same code. I have Windows 7, Windows 10, FreeDOS, Devuan Linuxs,
OS/2 Warp 4.52 and ArcaOS 5.0.6 virtual machines I built just for
testing purposes. Life is good. <G>

:)

Side question: what are you using for your NNTP gate on your BBS?

I run JamNNTPd to access JAM msg bases via NNTP.
I also run Soupgate to gate usenet to fido.

'Tommi
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