Subj : Loadable Modules and full/relative paths
To   : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Mar 08 2022 15:30:30

Hi DM,

For the Loadable Modules configuration in SCFG, it seems it doesn't accept full/relative paths, is that correct?
I've started working on updating my message reader so that it can be used directly as a loadable module (without needing separate loadable module scripts), but one possible issue is that DDMsgReader is under sbbs/xtrn/DDMsgReader (and it's actually one level deeper on my system).  I've tried specifying a relative path + DDmsgReader in SCFG, but then Synchronet gave an error saying it couldn't execute it.  I also saw that the wiki says only the name of the file is accepted (no .js or .bin file extension) - I assume that also means no path prefix as well?
https://wiki.synchro.net/util:scfg:system#loadable_modules

One workaround I thought of was to create another, DDMsgReader.js which one could place in sbbs/mods, which would just build a string of arguments from argv and then call bbs.exec() to run the actual DDMsgReader.  Or perhaps DDMsgReader.js could be moved into sbbs/exec, and its config files could be moved to sbbs/ctrl etc., but it seems cleaner to have all of its files together under /xtrn/DDMsgReader.

Nightfox

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