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)


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.

Any thougts what could cause this?


Regards,

Rick

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Rick Smith wrote to All <=-

Any thougts what could cause this?

I think you're not using 8.3 names for the Squish echo files and PB is
only reading in the first 8 characters of the file name and the
extension.

Something like this...this the actual line for this echo in my
SQUISH.CFG (line-wrapped to fit):

EchoArea MIN_BBS d:\max\msgs\m_bbs -$m2000 -p618:618/1
100/1 200/1 250/1 300/1 500/1 510/1 520/1

Now, since I use 100% OS/2-native software, I could use "micronet_bbs"
for the echo filename. However, to keep backwards compatibility, I use
8.3.

Take a look at converting all of your echo filenames to 8.3 in
SQUISH.CFG. That should cure the problem.

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Hello Sean!

Thursday September 21 2023 19:05, you wrote to me:

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Rick Smith wrote to All <=-

Any thougts what could cause this?

Now, since I use 100% OS/2-native software, I could use "micronet_bbs"
for the echo filename. However, to keep backwards compatibility, I
use 8.3.

Take a look at converting all of your echo filenames to 8.3 in
SQUISH.CFG. That should cure the problem.

This gives me something to look at thankyou Sean. I do not use squish, I use HPT but maybe similar restrictions? All though I have used hpt on arca as a point and golded sees them all so not sure, I will poke around and maybe pose the question in HUSKY echo as well.

Regards,

Rick

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Hello Rick!

21 Sep 23 21:41, you wrote to Sean Dennis:

This gives me something to look at thankyou Sean. I do not use
squish, I use HPT but maybe similar restrictions? All though I have
used hpt on arca as a point and golded sees them all so not sure, I
will poke around and maybe pose the question in HUSKY echo as well.

ProBoard is the issue here; since it originally was DOS software, it apparently only supports 8.3 filenames for message bases. Both Squish and HPT will support longer under operating systems that support long filenames.

Andrew

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Hello Andrew!

Friday September 22 2023 00:53, you wrote to me:

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Hello Rick!

21 Sep 23 21:41, you wrote to Sean Dennis:

This gives me something to look at thankyou Sean. I do not use
squish, I use HPT but maybe similar restrictions? All though I
have used hpt on arca as a point and golded sees them all so not
sure, I will poke around and maybe pose the question in HUSKY
echo as well.

ProBoard is the issue here; since it originally was DOS software, it apparently only supports 8.3 filenames for message bases. Both Squish
and HPT will support longer under operating systems that support long filenames.

So I can change the filenames in PB to anything I want correct? Keep echotag correct and store with shorter names?

Regards,

Rick

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Hello Rick!

21 Sep 23 22:09, you wrote to me:

ProBoard is the issue here; since it originally was DOS software,
it apparently only supports 8.3 filenames for message bases.
Both Squish and HPT will support longer under operating systems
that support long filenames.

So I can change the filenames in PB to anything I want correct? Keep echotag correct and store with shorter names?

Yes, but you will need to make sure that HPT has the same filename as PB for each echo.

Andrew


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Rick Smith wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

This gives me something to look at thankyou Sean. I do not
use squish, I use HPT but maybe similar restrictions? All
though I have used hpt on arca as a point and golded sees
them all so not sure, I will poke around and maybe pose the
question in HUSKY echo as well.

In my experience, I use 8.3 names for my message base files to try to
eliminate as many problems as possible.

-- Sean


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