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  • Golded and Synchronet 3.20

    From Richard Vonzel@1:154/110 to All on Tue Feb 25 11:05:48 2025
    Has ayone gotten Golded to read the new Synchronet 3.20? Or is anyone working on some new code so Golded will work the SBBS?

    Thanks,
    RickV


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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Richard Vonzel on Tue Feb 25 10:28:30 2025
    Has ayone gotten Golded to read the new Synchronet 3.20? Or is anyone working on some new code so Golded will work the SBBS?

    Golded has worked with Synchronet for quite some time although it needs configuration.

    I don't think anything has changed in the SBBS message structure that would break it.

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  • From Richard Vonzel@1:154/110 to Alan Ianson on Tue Feb 25 12:52:58 2025
    Re: Golded and Synchronet 3.20
    By: Alan Ianson to Richard Vonzel on Tue Feb 25 2025 10:28 am

    Golded has worked with Synchronet for quite some time although it needs configuration.

    I don't think anything has changed in the SBBS message structure that would break it.

    When SBBS upgraded to 3.20 it went from a msgs.cnf file to a msgs.ini text file that Golded can't read. The message structure is the same but the configuation is now different. It would be great if there was a utility program that could read the msgs.ini file and create a msgs.cnf file.

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  • From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to Richard Vonzel on Tue Feb 25 12:02:24 2025
    Re: Golded and Synchronet 3.20
    By: Richard Vonzel to Alan Ianson on Tue Feb 25 2025 12:52 pm

    When SBBS upgraded to 3.20 it went from a msgs.cnf file to a msgs.ini text file that Golded can't read. The message structure is the same but the configuation is now different. It would be great if there was a utility program that could read the msgs.ini file and create a msgs.cnf file.

    Unfortunately, you really couldn't be done reliably. One of the reasons for going from .cnf to .ini format was to be able to expand configuration fields and now that we've done that (e.g. 32-char internal codes), those won't "fit" in a msgs.cnf file. If a sysop upgraded from an earlier version of Synchronet, they should still have their msgs.cnf file in place that GoldEd+ could read/use until such time as someone updates the program to read msgs.ini files.
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  • From Richard Vonzel@1:154/110 to Rob Swindell on Tue Feb 25 16:09:36 2025
    Re: Golded and Synchronet 3.20
    By: Rob Swindell to Richard Vonzel on Tue Feb 25 2025 12:02 pm

    Unfortunately, you really couldn't be done reliably. One of the reasons for going from .cnf to .ini format was to be able to expand configuration fields and now that we've done that (e.g. 32-char internal codes), those won't "fit" in a msgs.cnf file. If a sysop upgraded from an earlier version of Synchronet, they should still have their msgs.cnf file in place that GoldEd+ could read/use until such time as someone updates the program to read msgs.ini files. --
    digital man (rob)

    So, how about an areas.bbs that GoldEd can read? Mystic creates one that Golded can read as areafile? Maybe on option to create one areas.bbs for all the message areas, and the ability to run it as an event to account for new areas?

    RickV
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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Richard Vonzel on Tue Feb 25 19:50:12 2025
    When SBBS upgraded to 3.20 it went from a msgs.cnf file to a msgs.ini text file that Golded can't read. The message structure is the same but the configuation is now different. It would be great if there was a utility program that could read the msgs.ini file and create a msgs.cnf file.

    In that case you may need to configure golded by hand area by area in the golded.cfg.

    It's no convenient, but it's doable.

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