Subj : Re: Hatching Files on Mystic
To   : Mike Dippel
From : Avon
Date : Wed Nov 01 2023 04:36 pm

On 31 Oct 2023 at 10:31p, Mike Dippel pondered and said...
 
 MD> I used to use my Wildcat server to hatch my weekly info packets, but I
 MD> have to do it 
 MD> using Mystic now.
 MD> 
 MD> I have tried doing it by selecting the file, hitting the [H] key to
 MD> hatch it.  I tell it to 
 MD> replace the old one.  Eventually it shows that it did hatch, but my
 MD> downlinks aren't 
 MD> getting them apparently.

Mike I'd check the downlinks have a filebox enabled for each of them, without that Mystic won't know where to place the hatched files. Check the downlinks/echonodes are also linked to the file areas you are wanting to send to them. Presume you have set up a TIC password against each echonode also?

For the file boxes you want to set to 'yes' or 'hold' if you want them to poll your HUB for the files.

 MD> I see that there is a section of the mutil.ini file for hatching.  The 2
 MD> files I need to hatch 
 MD> are HOBBYNET.ZIP and HOBBYNET.XXX (the day the nodelist is hatched.
 MD> Do I create a file like hatch.ini (or something like that) to do it, or
 MD> can I use mutil.ini

Yes you can do that, then you're essentially calling it with MUTIL to get the files hatched via that function.

 MD> How should the file be written to make it work?

I'll have a bash at it and post something here in the coming day.

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going'
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