Subj : GoldEd+ v1.1.5 - not working on Mac
To   : All
From : Fermin Sanchez
Date : Sun May 09 2021 06:07 pm


  Hello everybody!

I have resurrected my Fidonet node, so far, so good. And while everything seems to be running fine on a Windows based server, including GoldEd+, I wanted to run the editor natively on my Mac. I'm running the latest "Big Sur" version.

Now for the tricky part - not sure if that's actually possible. I have, for example, an areas.bbs that gets automatically generated by FMail. It looks like this:
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2:301/123 ! Fermin Sanchez
; Created by FConfig-W32-2.0.1.2 - Sun May 09 18:05:12 2021
!C:\BBS\msgbase\allfix_file    ALLFIX_FILE          2:301/1
!C:\BBS\msgbase\cooking        COOKING              2:301/1
!C:\BBS\msgbase\earth          EARTH                2:301/1
!C:\BBS\msgbase\ebbauser.ger   EBBAUSER.GER         2:301/1
... (etc...)
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My functioning GoldEd.cfg on my Windows server has various entries that use the typical Windows paths, for example:
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#Area definitions
AREADEF Netmail "NETMAIL" 0 Net OPUS C:\BBS\netmail
AREAFILE AreasBBS c:\bbs\msgbase\areas.bbs
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I therefore tried using "MAPPATH" on my Macs golded.cfg to rewrite whatever c:\.... to /Volumes/bbs/....:
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#Info about me
USERNAME Fermin Sanchez
ADDRESS 2:301/123
AKA  2:301/[email protected]
NICKNAME Fermin

#Special for Mac
MAPPPATH c:\bbs\ /Volumes/bbs/
MAPPPATH c:\bbs\config\ /Volumes/bbs/config/
MAPPPATH c:\bbs\GoldEd\ /Volumes/bbs/GoldEd/
MAPPPATH c:\bbs\msgbase\ /Volumes/bbs/msgbase/
MAPPPATH c:\bbs\netmail\ /Volumes/bbs/netmail/
MAPPPATH c:\bbs\nodelist\ /Volumes/bbs/nodelist/
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Nope, doesn't seem to work. GoldEd creates the JAM database files including their paths on my Mac:
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fermin@MBPHome bin % ls -lsa
total 7240
  0 drwxr-xr-x@ 68 fermin  staff     2176 May  9 18:31 .
  0 drwxr-xr-x   5 fermin  staff      160 May  9 18:09 ..
 16 -rw-r--r--@  1 fermin  staff     6148 May  9 18:30 .DS_Store
  0 -rw-r--r--   1 fermin  staff        0 May  9 18:30 C:\BBS\msgbase\allfix_file.jdx
  8 -rw-r--r--   1 fermin  staff     1024 May  9 18:30 C:\BBS\msgbase\allfix_file.jhr
  0 -rw-r--r--   1 fermin  staff        0 May  9 18:30 C:\BBS\msgbase\allfix_file.jlr
  0 -rw-r--r--   1 fermin  staff        0 May  9 18:30 C:\BBS\msgbase\cooking.jdx
  8 -rw-r--r--   1 fermin  staff     1024 May  9 18:30 C:\BBS\msgbase\cooking.jhr
  0 -rw-r--r--   1 fermin  staff        0 May  9 18:30 C:\BBS\msgbase\cooking.jlr
  0 -rw-r--r--   1 fermin  staff        0 May  9 18:30 C:\BBS\msgbase\earth.jdx
  8 -rw-r--r--   1 fermin  staff     1024 May  9 18:30 C:\BBS\msgbase\earth.jhr
  0 -rw-r--r--   1 fermin  staff        0 May  9 18:30 C:\BBS\msgbase\earth.jlr
  0 -rw-r--r--   1 fermin  staff        0 May  9 18:30 C:\BBS\msgbase\ebbauser.ger.jdx
  8 -rw-r--r--   1 fermin  staff     1024 May  9 18:30 C:\BBS\msgbase\ebbauser.ger.jhr
  0 -rw-r--r--   1 fermin  staff        0 May  9 18:30 C:\BBS\msgbase\ebbauser.ger.jlr
  0 -rw-r--r--   1 fermin  staff        0 May  9 18:30 C:\BBS\msgbase\essnasa.jdx
  8 -rw-r--r--   1 fermin  staff     1024 May  9 18:30 C:\BBS\msgbase\essnasa.jhr
  0 -rw-r--r--   1 fermin  staff        0 May  9 18:30 C:\BBS\msgbase\essnasa.jlr
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Is what I'm trying to do even possible? The server would remain on Windows, including a local copy of GoldEd if needed. But I'd like to be able to remotely access the system using a native version of GoldEd on my Mac.

Regards
Fermin


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