Subj : Loadable Modules and full/relative paths
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Mar 08 2022 19:32:57

  Re: Loadable Modules and full/relative paths
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Tue Mar 08 2022 03:30 pm

 > Hi DM,
 >
 > For the Loadable Modules configuration in SCFG, it seems it doesn't accept
 > full/relative paths, is that correct?

It's a mix. Have you looked at the online (F1) help? It clarifies which loadable modules use full command-lines are which are just module names.

 > 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

Correct.

 > 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.

Yup, either of those seem like viable workarounds.
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