Subj : Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page added: howto:freq
To : Gamgee
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Mar 10 2025 08:42 pm
Re: Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page added: howto:freq
By: Gamgee to Digital Man on Mon Mar 10 2025 07:56 pm
> Re: Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page added: howto:freq
> By: Gamgee to Digital Man on Sun Mar 09 2025 09:20 am
>
> > Another quick followup to this... Again there is no prefix for the file
> > library, and I did use an exact filename, with no change.
>
> > I also tried using the OS-level directory path instead of the Internal
> > Code, and that didn't work.
>
> > Below is a log snip of what I see in sbbs.log when the FREQ comes in.
> > The entries before and after this snip are just the session start/stop
> > messages, no other useful information is seen. I also snipped the
> > timestamp at the beginning of each line for readability:
>
> > srvc 0013 BINKP Receiving file: /sbbs/temp/00870073.req (0.0KB)
> > srvc 0013 BINKP Received file: /sbbs/temp/00870073.req (0.0KB)
> > srvc 0013 BINKP Deleted file: /sbbs/temp/00870073.req
> > srvc 0013 BINKP Receiving file: /sbbs/temp/nfx4kkji.req (0.0KB)
> > srvc 0013 BINKP Received file: /sbbs/temp/nfx4kkji.req (0.0KB)
> > srvc 0013 BINKP Deleted file: /sbbs/temp/nfx4kkji.req
>
> > It is interesting that there are *TWO* .req messages sent with each try,
> > not sure why that is. I did try another experiment though - I FREQ'd a
> > file from a non-SBBS system, and it also sent two .req's to that system,
> > but I got back the file I requested, and two netmail replies with the
> > file information.
>
> > What I notice about the log info above is that there is no "recognition"
> > by BinkIT that there is a request being made. No error message like
> > "file not found" or anything else. Just what you see above. It's like
> > the FREQ function is not enabled in BinkIT or something.
>
> > Hopefully this gives some clues about what might be happening. Also,
> > just for completeness, on the requesting system I have tried sending to
> > "freq@<address>" and to "sysop@<address>" with no difference (probably
> > doesn't matter who it's addressed to). Also have used "FR: ALLFILES" and
> > "FR:ALLFILES" on the subject line, with no difference.
>
> Digital Man, any more thoughts on this?
Nope. I start added some log() statements to binkit.js to find out what's happening.
> It seems like BinkIT is not
> recognizing that there is an inbound ".req" netmail, and doesn't trigger the
> FreqIT function.
>
> I looked at freqit.js and see that it "loads" fidocfg.js and
> freqit_common.js. That second one requires filebase.js, and in that last one
> I see a comment reference regarding an "unnecessary shim for the new
> Filebase class". Just a wild guess, but did the new 3.20 filebase break
> something?
Doubt it.
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