Subj : Re: Allfix...
To   : Bill McGarrity
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Jan 19 2015 18:22:00

  Re: Re: Allfix...
  By: Bill McGarrity to Digital Man on Mon Jan 19 2015 09:07 pm

 > -=> On 01-19-15 16:49, Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity <=
 >
 >
 >  > -=> On 01-19-15 07:29, Poindexter Fortran wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >  BM> I did originally run FCOMP 21 c:\sbbs\ctrl and ALLFIX did see all
 >  >  BM> the file areas correctly.
 >  >
 >  >  PF> What version of Synchronet and Allfix are you running? Although
 >  >  PF> fcomp seemed to work, I could never get it to write to the file
 >  >  PF> area -- instead I write to files.bbs and call ADDFILES.
 >  >
 >  >  PF> I'm running Synchronet 3.16 and ALLFIX version 5 -- could never get
 >  >  PF> 6.0.2x to work here consistently.
 >  >
 >  > I'm running 3.16a with v6 of ALLFIX.  I'm not asking it to write to the
 >  > filearea but to create a files.bbs by scanning each file area but it
 >  > doesn't. I'll try v5 and see what happens.  Do v5 need to be registered?
 >
 >  DM> The Synchronet FILELIST utility can be used to generate files.bbs for
 >  DM> each directory.
 >  DM> http://synchro.net/docs/utility_reference.html#FILELIST
 >
 > Thank you sir!!
 >
 > Worked like a charm... :)
 >
 > Another quick question, in my research I've been seeing/reading the
 > files.bbs is a 0 bit file?? Is it empty or should it have the entire list
 > of files in that directory for ALLFIX to work?

It depends on how you're using ALLFIX. If you're just using the FILES.BBS as a 
way for ALLFIX to pass the file descriptions to Synchronet (e.g. via ADDFILES), 
then the FILES.BBS will only contain the file names and description of newly 
imported files and after ADDFILES is run, the file is then truncated (to 0 
bytes).

If you're going to use ALLFIX to hatch files from your BBS, then I suspect the 
FILES.BBS will need to be current (have a current list of file names and 
descriptions) with the Synchronet filebase and no truncated (0 bytes in 
length).

                                            digital man

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