Subj : Upgrades and cruft...
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Feb 07 2026 14:12:23

  Re: Upgrades and cruft...
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Sat Feb 07 2026 01:19 pm

 > Every couple of months, I take my BBS offline, download the SBBS_RUN.ZIP
 > and SBBS_DEV.ZIP files from Vert, and copy over my "live" exec, web and
 > xtrn folders. Run a jsexec update. Outside of a tweak or two, it works
 > like a charm.
 >
 > This time, all looked good, but then sbbs_ctrl died with no error. Just,
 > Poof! Tried a couple of times, no go.
 >
 > I put my old EXEC directory back, everything worked just fine.
 >
 > On a lark, I tried copying the vanilla, newly downloaded EXEC folder
 > back into my SBBS folder, and it worked.
 >
 > I've copied the old SBBS folder from system to system since 2004.
 > There's been quite a bit of cruft along the way - the old folder has
 > 1,221 files, the new version has 613!

It sounds like a DLL/EXE version mismatch. Usually sbbsctrl will at least play
some tones if it detects a critical mismatch like that, but it can't always.
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