Subj : SBBSLIST v4 error
To : Digital Man
From : Bill McGarrity
Date : Thu Feb 01 2018 10:19 am
-=> Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity on 01-31-18 15:51 <=-
DM> Re: SBBSLIST v4 error
DM> By: Bill McGarrity to Digital Man on Wed Jan 31 2018 01:06 pm
> -=> Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity on 01-30-18 16:43 <=-
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> DM> Re: SBBSLIST v4 error
> DM> By: Bill McGarrity to All on Tue Jan 30 2018 10:25 am
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> Should I run the SBL door using JSEXEC so it can create one?
DM> When I say "SBL", I'm referring (usually) the old Synchronet BBS List
DM> door (v1-v3), written in C and using a clumsy flat-file database
DM> (sbl.dab). Since it's a native program (not JavaScript), you can't
DM> execute it using JSexec.
OK... :) Actually I meant SBBSLIST originally but it seems you've already taken
care of that in the latest build.
DM> The new "SBBSLIST" (v4) replaces the old SBL. You don't need an SBL.DAB
DM> file. In fact I made changes to sbbslist.js to insure that. You should
DM> be able to run sbbslist.js without any sbl.dab or sbbslist.json file.
DM> The sbl.dab is not really *used* by sbbslist v4, it just supports
DM> upgrading from that old database (sbl.dab) to the new sbbslist.json,
DM> automagically, if needed.
I saw that when I did the latest update. All is well here...
