I just fixed an issue I had with Allfix 5.23 and have it working with Binkit. I noticed the following errors in my log:

1/14 05:13:16p BINKPOLL Unexpected file path '../binkit/outbox\00DA006D.FLO' expected '../binkit/outbox\00da006d.FLO' (skipped)

It looks like all of the .*lo files created by Binkit are lowercase, whilst Allfix is creating files with uppercase names (the file above was for a file echo transfer)

Is this a bug? Not sure if I could force Allfix to lower case...

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Re: Case sensitive .*LO files w/ binkit?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Mon Jan 14 2019 05:21 pm

I just fixed an issue I had with Allfix 5.23 and have it working with Binkit. I noticed the following errors in my log:

1/14 05:13:16p BINKPOLL Unexpected file path '../binkit/outbox\00DA006D.FLO' expected '../binkit/outbox\00da006d.FLO' (skipped)

It looks like all of the .*lo files created by Binkit are lowercase, whilst Allfix is creating files with uppercase names (the file above was for a file echo transfer)

Is this a bug? Not sure if I could force Allfix to lower case...

Is Allfix a Windows application? If so, yes, it's a bug in Allfix. According to http://ftsc.org/docs/frl-1034.001:

Name of flow file is formed from network and node number of remote
system, expressed as 4 hexadecimal digits each, zero-padded on the
left. Thus information concerning to node 104/36 is stored in flow
and control files with name "00680024" with different extension.
Hexadecimal digits must be lower case if it is supported by OS file
system.

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Re: Case sensitive .*LO files w/ binkit?
By: Digital Man to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jan 14 2019 07:28 pm

Is Allfix a Windows application? If so, yes, it's a bug in Allfix.

Looks like I'll be moving to Tickit as soon as the dust settles from my Binkit migration. :)

I was planning on moving to either HTICK or Tickit anyway, doing so would get rid of the last Windows dependency I have and let me move the BBS to a linux box.

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Re: Case sensitive .*LO files w/ binkit?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Mon Jan 14 2019 11:02 pm

Re: Case sensitive .*LO files w/ binkit?
By: Digital Man to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jan 14 2019 07:28 pm

Is Allfix a Windows application? If so, yes, it's a bug in Allfix.

Looks like I'll be moving to Tickit as soon as the dust settles from my Binkit migration. :)

I was planning on moving to either HTICK or Tickit anyway, doing so would get rid of the last Windows dependency I have and let me move the BBS to a linux box.

Ah, cool. Is Allfix still maintained? It'd be nice to notify them of the bug.

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On 01-14-19 23:02, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Digital Man <=-

Looks like I'll be moving to Tickit as soon as the dust settles from my Binkit migration. :)

TickIT works pretty well. :)


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Re: Case sensitive .*LO files w/ binkit?
By: Digital Man to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jan 14 2019 11:55 pm

I was planning on moving to either HTICK or Tickit anyway, doing so
would get rid of the last Windows dependency I have and let me move
the BBS to a linux box.

Ah, cool. Is Allfix still maintained? It'd be nice to notify them of the bug.

It looks like Ken Johnson picked it up after Bob Seaborn passed away. There's some activity on www.allfix.com, and I guess the ideal place to report it would bein the fidonet echo ALLFIX_HELP.

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Re: Case sensitive .*LO files w/ binkit?
By: Digital Man to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jan 14 2019 11:55 pm

Ah, cool. Is Allfix still maintained? It'd be nice to notify them of the bug.

I'll post to the allfix echo - the code is available and there's been talk of an update, but not a lot of support forthcoming.
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Re: Re: Case sensitive .*LO files w/ binkit?
By: Tony Langdon to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Jan 15 2019 08:22 pm

TickIT works pretty well. :)

The one bit I'm hoping for is filefix area manager support. In the meantime I could be the area manager. :)
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On 2019 Jan 14 19:28:44, you wrote to poindexter FORTRAN:

Is this a bug? Not sure if I could force Allfix to lower case...

Is Allfix a Windows application? If so, yes, it's a bug in Allfix. According to
http://ftsc.org/docs/frl-1034.001:

allfix started on DOS... it has no LFN support in the <v6.xx releases no matter
what OS it is run on... even on OS/2 where i was running the "universal"* flavored binaries... the original owner/author and the 2nd owner are both no longer in this realm... older versions cannot be fixed AFAIK...



* "universal" as in there was only one binary but it contained multiple internal binaries so that it would run natively on all supported OSes... DOS and OS/2 were the ones i know about... i'm personally not aware of a native winwhatever version or universal that supported it but that doesn't mean there wasn't such...

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On 2019 Jan 15 20:22:00, you wrote to poindexter FORTRAN:

Looks like I'll be moving to Tickit as soon as the dust settles from
my Binkit migration. :)

TickIT works pretty well. :)

are you using the latest one from the repo? the one that brought an updated tickcfg as well?

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On 2019 Jan 15 07:42:32, you wrote to Digital Man:

Ah, cool. Is Allfix still maintained? It'd be nice to notify them of
the bug.

It looks like Ken Johnson picked it up after Bob Seaborn passed away.

ken has been bob's coder for AF for a while... the problem is fixing older versions which won't happen for several reasons... only versions newer than v6.xx may be fixed for this situation...

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On 2019 Jan 15 07:27:02, you wrote to Tony Langdon:

TickIT works pretty well. :)

The one bit I'm hoping for is filefix area manager support. In the

meantime

I could be the area manager. :)

yeah, that's not available yet... generally speaking there's not a lot of FDN (un)subscribing going on a lot... at least on my system, i get only a few messages to add or remove a system to/from an area maybe once or twice a month (so far)...

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Re: Case sensitive .*LO files w/ binkit?
By: mark lewis to DaiTengu on Tue Jan 15 2019 02:50 pm

ken has been bob's coder for AF for a while... the problem is fixing older versions which won't happen for several reasons... only versions newer than v6.xx may be fixed for this situation...

Unfortunately, at least one other person experienced random hangs with AF 6.x, and the only solution was to go back to AF 5.x.

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Re: Case sensitive .*LO files w/ binkit?
By: mark lewis to Kurt Weiske on Tue Jan 15 2019 02:52 pm

yeah, that's not available yet... generally speaking there's not a lot of FDN (un)subscribing going on a lot... at least on my system, i get only a few messages to add or remove a system to/from an area maybe once or twice a month (so far)...

True, once I move my current list over, there shouldn't be a lot of changes. It'll be nice to have everything running under Synchronet.
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Re: Re: Case sensitive .*LO files w/ binkit?
By: Tony Langdon to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Jan 15 2019 08:22 pm

TickIT works pretty well. :)

The one bit I'm hoping for is filefix area manager support. In the meantime I could be the area manager. :)

Yeah, so far, not an issue for me, because I'm only using TickIT on a leaf node, but it would be a nice addition.


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On 01-15-19 14:49, mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

On 2019 Jan 15 20:22:00, you wrote to poindexter FORTRAN:

Looks like I'll be moving to Tickit as soon as the dust settles from
my Binkit migration. :)

TickIT works pretty well. :)

are you using the latest one from the repo? the one that brought an updated tickcfg as well?

No, haven't upgraded to 3.17b yet. I have to wait until this extreme heat lets up before I can do any upgrades. :(


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Re: Re: Case sensitive .*LO files w/ binkit?
By: Tony Langdon to mark lewis on Wed Jan 16 2019 09:22:00

On 01-15-19 14:49, mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

On 2019 Jan 15 20:22:00, you wrote to poindexter FORTRAN:

Looks like I'll be moving to Tickit as soon as the dust settles

from

my Binkit migration. :)

TickIT works pretty well. :)

are you using the latest one from the repo? the one that brought an updated tickcfg as well?

No, haven't upgraded to 3.17b yet. I have to wait until this extreme

heat
lets up before I can do any upgrades. :(

The updates include some bug fixes and some new features.

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On 2019 Jan 16 09:22:00, you wrote to me:

are you using the latest one from the repo? the one that brought an
updated tickcfg as well?

No, haven't upgraded to 3.17b yet. I have to wait until this extreme
heat lets up before I can do any upgrades. :(

oh yeah, i forgot it was warm down there this time of year...

FWIW: tickit works fine as a leaf node... my recent changes dressed it for the hubbing job...

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Re: Case sensitive .*LO files w/ binkit?
By: mark lewis to Tony Langdon on Wed Jan 16 2019 11:19 am

FWIW: tickit works fine as a leaf node... my recent changes dressed it for the hubbing job...

<ears perk up> Oh, really? Could you elaborate?

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On 2019 Jan 16 09:34:22, you wrote to me:

FWIW: tickit works fine as a leaf node... my recent changes dressed
it for the hubbing job...

<ears perk up> Oh, really? Could you elaborate?

http://cvs.synchro.net/commitlog.ssjs#37668
http://cvs.synchro.net/commitlog.ssjs#37667

also it should be noted that the statement about "force replace" was included for everything but it mainly applies to tickitcfg since the work was already done to make the feature available in tickit...

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On 01-16-19 06:48, Plt wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

lets up before I can do any upgrades. :(

The updates include some bug fixes and some new features.

True, but as I said, I can't do anything until the current heatwave subsides - no way the system will stay up during compilation. Looks like it's kicking into high gear again next week. :/


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On 01-16-19 11:19, mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

No, haven't upgraded to 3.17b yet. I have to wait until this extreme
heat lets up before I can do any upgrades. :(

oh yeah, i forgot it was warm down there this time of year...

Yep, had a run of 43C (110F) weather this week. Will get a couple days break, but not long enough for everything to cool down, before we're back up in the 40s next week.

FWIW: tickit works fine as a leaf node... my recent changes dressed it
for the hubbing job...

Won't affect me at this stage, I'm using another system running Mystic as my FTN hub. Synchronet is strictly a leaf node.


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