Subj : GoldED on Windows 10 32bits
To : Accession
From : David Gonzalez
Date : Sun Oct 20 2024 08:26 am
Hello Accession!
18 Oct 24 17:46, you wrote to me:
Ac> On Fri, Oct 18 00:31:28 -0500, you wrote:
DG>> yup! found out the hard way, I skimmed through the README.1ST
DG>> from older versions and got it running again, I did find that I
DG>> needed, Name, Address and AREADEF, I'm using Mystic so I found
DG>> the export golded and export areas.bbs and I ran both, I have a
DG>> config that looks like this but still have some issues:
DG>> USERNAME David Gonzalez
DG>> ADDRESS 21:3/188
DG>> AREADEF Netmail "NETMAIL" 0 Net OPUS d:\bbs\mystic\msgs
DG>> AREAFILE AreasBBS d:\bbs\mystic\areas.bbs
DG>> - Netmail doesn't show anything.
Ac> Use JAM instead of OPUS.
DG>> - I'd like to start on the message area list
DG>> - How do I import area descripction so they don't show up as
DG>> FSX_MYS but description.
Ac> To answer these, you may have to set all of your AREADEF's manually,
Ac> rather than using the areas.bbs from Mystic. This is how I do it here,
Ac> so I have separators (using AREASEP) to separate the networks, then
Ac> the areas for those specific networks listed under the separator.
I did export goldareas.txt with mutil and it spitted out this which looks promissing
; Created by Mystic BBS on 18 Oct 2024 at 22:02:19
;
; Echo Tag Description Group Type Format Path AKA Attribute Origin
AREADEF localbbs "[LOC] Area Local" 0 Local JAM d:\bbs\mystic\msgs\localbbs . (Loc) "SkyNet BBS | Colombia | bbs.dkynetbbs.com:20023"
AREADEF LOC_DUPES "[LOC] Duplicados" 0 Local JAM d:\bbs\mystic\msgs\dupes . (Loc) "SkyNet BBS | Colombia | bbs.skynetbbs.com:20023"
AREADEF netmail "[FSX] Netmail" 0 Net JAM d:\bbs\mystic\msgs\netmail . (Loc Pvt) "SkyNet BBS | Colombia | bbs.dkynetbbs.com:20023"
AREADEF FSX_TST "[FSX] Test (ENG)" 0 Echo JAM d:\bbs\mystic\msgs\fsxtst 21:3/188 (Loc) "SkyNet BBS | Colombia | bbs.dkynetbbs.com:20023"
AREADEF FSX_GEN "[FSX] General (ENG)" 0 Echo JAM d:\bbs\mystic\msgs\fsxgen 21:3/188 (Loc) "SkyNet BBS | Colombia | bbs.dkynetbbs.com:20023"
[...]
AREADEF FSX_MYS "[FSX] Mystic BBS" 0 Echo JAM d:\bbs\mystic\msgs\fsx_mys 21:3/188 (Loc) "SkyNet BBS | Colombia | bbs.dkynetbbs.com:20023"
But I'm not really sure how to make GoldED play nice with this file.
DG>> - I've replied to many messages from GoldED, now how do I get
DG>> those out using Mystic's mutil?
Ac> You would either have to force mutil to run, then poll out. Or you
Ac> could probably setup a batch file that does this, and then utilize
Ac> Golded's function keys (for example, setup F12 to run this batch file,
Ac> and hint: take a look at GOLDKEYS.CFG), that would run 'mutil
Ac> toss.ini' and 'mis poll <node>'.
Ac> So when you're done writing all of your messages, you can just hit F12
Ac> which would toss and send out your messages, then you can exit Golded
Ac> till next time.
Ac> Another way may be as easy as making an F-key create an
Ac> echomail.out/netmail.out semaphore in Mystic's semaphore directory (if
Ac> you use semaphores with Mystic, of course), too.
DG>> It did and thanks, now I need to get it set to play along iwth
DG>> Mystic.
Ac> No worries, and glad it helped!
Ac> Golded plays very nice with Mystic. You just have to remember it's an
Ac> external program that's sharing the JAM message bases. Some things may
Ac> have to be done manually as Mystic isn't going to automatically detect
Ac> that you posted a message in Golded.
Ac> Regards,
Ac> Nick
Ac> ... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
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