Subj : Re: Building FMail/LNX
To   : Dave Vandermeer
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Fri Feb 22 2019 11:14:42

Hi Dave,

On 2019-02-20 01:27:31, you wrote to me:

 DV> It's weird.. I installed a different 64bit distro and both the FMail
 DV> and FTools executables worked.

Compiled by yourself?

 DV> I'm using dosbox to setup the config .. but I'm noticing when I enter
 DV> a unix path of say /ele/mail for netmail it sets it as \ele\mail ..
 DV> when I read the config with the linux tools will it translate the
 DV> paths back to / ?

FConfig checks the paths you enter, and sometimes they are even created if they
 don't exist. So the paths you enter need to be real existing dos compatible
paths. The way I solved that on my virtual XP is, I created a "network"
mapping/drive-letter that points to my fidonet directory on the linux side. So
N:\ on XP is /home/fido/ on the linux side of the system.

So all the paths I set in FConfig start with N:\...

The linux tools of course need to convert these back to linux compatible paths.
 This is handled by an environment variable you set before starting one of the
tools. On my system this is:

export FMAIL_REPLACE_DRIVE=/home/fido

The conversion from \ to / is done automatically.


Bye, Wilfred.

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