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    From Rick Smith@1:3634/12 to All on Tue Mar 10 00:42:34 2020
    Greetings,

    Someone sent me a note about their openXP help page and it doesn't seem to offer
    detailed enough help for setup? Anyone familiar with this? I am just trying to
    setup a point off my own mystic BBS and cannot seem to find even mystic docs for
    this, openXP errors at setup for nodelist ( i thought to start there) so I haven't got very far..

    Regards,

    Nitro
    --- SBBSecho 3.10-Linux
    * Origin: SouthEast Star Mail HUB - SESTAR (1:3634/12)
  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Rick Smith on Tue Mar 10 01:45:00 2020
    Hello Rick!

    ** 10.03.20 - 00:38, Rick Smith wrote to All:

    Someone sent me a note about their openXP help page and it doesn't
    seem to offer detailed enough help for setup? Anyone familiar with
    this? I am just trying to setup a point off my own mystic BBS and
    cannot seem to find even mystic docs for this, openXP errors at setup
    for nodelist ( i thought to start there) so I haven't got very far..

    Hi Rick, I am not sure which "openXP help page" you are referring to, but
    for help on setting up OpenXP the best source of help would be:

    The Quick Start Guide (oxpguide.pdf), from here: https://openxp.uk/doc/

    Hope this helps!

    The nodelist setup is *very* particular wrt this part:

    Fido
    ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
    ³ Request ³
    ³ File lists.. ³
    ³ File Areas.. ³
    ³ Crash ³
    ³ Nodelists.. ³ <--- [1]
    ³ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
    Àij Config ³ <--- [2]
    ³ Update ³
    ³ Shrink ³
    ³ Rebuild Index ³
    ÃÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ´
    ³ Statistics ³
    ³ Search ³
    ³ Find @N ³
    ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ

    Then, after selecting ">NEW<", the screen should be made to look like this:

    [3]

    ÚÄ Configure Node/Pointlist ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
    ³ ³
    ³ List name NODELIST.### Number 066 ³
    ³ ³
    ³ Format of list Nodelist  ³
    ³ Zone/Address ³
    ³ ³
    ³ Update file NODEDIFF.### ³
    ³ Update archive NODEDIFF.Z## ³
    ³ ³
    ³ Process by ³
    ³ ³
    ³ [x] Use internal nodelist processor ³
    ³ [x] Delete update after processing ³
    ³ ³
    ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ [F2] ÄÙ


    ../|ug

    --- OpenXP 5.0.43
    * Origin: û › Ÿ (2:221/1.58)
  • From Martin Foster@2:310/31.3 to Rick Smith on Tue Mar 10 09:33:00 2020
    Hello Rick!

    *** 10.03.20 at 00:38, Rick Smith wrote to All:

    Someone sent me a note about their openXP help page and it doesn't
    seem to offer detailed enough help for setup? Anyone familiar with
    this? I am just trying to setup a point off my own mystic BBS and
    cannot seem to find even mystic docs for this, openXP errors at setup
    for nodelist ( i thought to start there) so I haven't got very far..

    Grab yourself a copy of oxpguide.pdf as August suggested, print it out and work your way through it from the beginning, step by step.

    Regards,
    Martin

    --- OpenXP 5.0.43
    * Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3)
  • From Martin Foster@2:310/31.3 to August Abolins on Tue Mar 10 09:40:00 2020
    Hello August!

    *** 10.03.20 at 01:41, August Abolins wrote to Rick Smith:

    [snip]
    Then, after selecting ">NEW<", the screen should be made to look like this:

    [3]

    ÚÄ Configure Node/Pointlist ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
    ³ ³
    ³ List name NODELIST.### Number 066 ³
    ³ ³
    ³ Format of list Nodelist  ³
    ³ Zone/Address ³
    ³ ³
    ³ Update file NODEDIFF.### ³
    ³ Update archive NODEDIFF.Z## ³
    ³ ³
    ³ Process by ³
    ³ ³
    ³ [x] Use internal nodelist processor ³
    ³ [x] Delete update after processing ³
    ³ ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ³
    ÀÄÄÄÄ|ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ [F2] ÄÙ
    |
    |
    |
    I wouldn't really advise enabling that particular option but, of course, that's just a matter of personal preference :)

    Regards,
    Martin

    --- OpenXP 5.0.43
    * Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3)
  • From August Abolins@2:333/808.7 to Martin Foster on Tue Mar 10 13:47:36 2020
    Sveiks Martin!

    10 Mar 20 09:40, you wrote to me:

    AA>> ³ [x] Use internal nodelist processor ³
    AA>> ³ [x] Delete update after processing ³
    AA>> ³ ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ³
    AA>> ÀÄÄÄÄ|ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ [F2] ÄÙ
    |
    |
    |
    I wouldn't really advise enabling that particular option but, of
    course, that's just a matter of personal preference :)

    I forget what the defaults are. But it makes sense that the "Delete.." is probably OFF normally, and I only ticked it ON when I gained confidence that the processing was going well - atleast for the last two weeks! LOL



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