Hello All!

I have finally sorted out the calamity of errors I was having getting proboard to work with ArcaOS and got it ^functioning. I started to invest sometime in it and setup fidonet which I have to do by hand unless any of you know of#a way to import a BACKBONE.NA or the like into PB? Anyhow I entered about 25 message areas by hand into PB and most of the areas work with a couple of exceptions. It seems the first time a particular area gets mail the msgbase dir shows it correctly, the second time an area gets mail it changes the file name by shortening it, in most cases like below. ENGLISH_.SQI (INcorrect)
ENGLISH_TUTOR.sqd (Correct)
ENGLISH_TUTOR.sqi (Correct)
FDN_ANNO.sqd (INcorrect)
FDN_ANNO.SQI (INcorrect)
#FDN_ANNOUNCE.sqd (correct) # #FDN_ANNOUNCE.sqi (correct) # #

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Since I am using HPT and the directory that the BBS sees the mail is the one where hpt tosses it, could this be an issue with HPT or ? This is just a couple that it does it to. The areas this happens to displays no messages when You try to read that areas. Clearly there are some messages there just not able to view.

Regards,

Rick

... BBSing is a terminal disease and I have the ANSI strain.
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Rick Smith wrote:

I have finally sorted out the calamity of errors I was having
getting proboard to work with ArcaOS and got it ^functioning. I
started to invest sometime in it and setup fidonet which I have to
do by hand unless any of you know of#a way to import a BACKBONE.NA
or the like into PB? Anyhow I entered about 25 message areas by
hand into PB and most of the areas work with a couple of
exceptions. It seems the first time a particular area gets mail
the msgbase dir shows it correctly, the second time an area gets
mail it changes the file name by shortening it, in most cases like
below. ENGLISH_.SQI (INcorrect) ENGLISH_TUTOR.sqd
(Correct) ENGLISH_TUTOR.sqi (Correct) FDN_ANNO.sqd (INcorrect)
FDN_ANNO.SQI (INcorrect)
#FDN_ANNOUNCE.sqd (correct) #
##FDN_ANNOUNCE.sqi (correct) # #

#
Since I am using HPT and the directory that the BBS sees the mail
is the one where hpt tosses it, could this be an issue with HPT
or ? This is just a couple that it does it to. The areas this
happens to displays no messages when You try to read that areas.
Clearly there are some messages there just not able to view.

Isn't Proboard a DOS program? It may need all the files being in 8+3
format... :D

Consider using "-dosfile" in your echoarea settings.

'Tommi

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Hello Rick!

21 Sep 23, Rick Smith wrote to All:

the second time an area gets mail it changes the file name
by shortening it, in most cases like below.
FDN_ANNO.sqd (INcorrect)
FDN_ANNO.SQI (INcorrect)
#FDN_ANNOUNCE.sqd (correct) #

Looks like some dos tool is in action. (8.3 and uppercase)

Golded can do mappath to change the path. I don't know proboard but other software could force 8.3 filenames too. This feature is for compatibility with dos environments.

I would stop the batch scripts and do them line by line manually to see when the 8.3 names are created exactly.

A quick workaround would be to change all filenames to 8.3 uppercase.

Regards

Kai

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