This Sunday, filegate.zxx will list our new fdn.

Thanks to Gert and Benny for pulling this together!


% FDN: Gentoo Applications FDN
% Coordinator: Benny Pedersen 2:23/0
% Co-Coordinator: Gert Andersen 2:236/150
%
% PATH: DIRECT
% Hub: No
% ---------------------------------------------------------------
% File Echo Description
% ---------------------------------------------------------------
Area GENTOOAPP 0 ! GENTOO: Gentoo Linux Applications
%
%


Take care,
Janis

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Hi folks,

We've got a new FDN Joining us this week:

FDN: ENTHRAL BBS FDN
Coordinator: Frank Linhares 1:250/100

PATH: Direct
Hub:Yes
% ------------------------------------------------------------------------
% File Echo Description
% ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Area: ENTHRAL ENT: The Enthral BBS Package




File releases should begin after the weekend.

Thanks Frank :)

Take care,
Janis

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Just a heads up.. new filegate.zxx went out today:

% FDN: AMIGA-FDN
% Coordinator: Rudi Timmermans, 2:292/650
%
% PATH: DIRECT
% HUB: No
% ------------------------------------------------------------------------
% File Echo Description %-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Area AMIBINKD 0 ! AMN: BinkD/Cyclone for Amiga by Rudi Timmermans Area AMIDAYDR 0 ! AMN: DayDream BBS for Amiga
Area AMIDOORS 0 ! AMN: Amiga BBS Doors by Rudi Timmermans





Take care,
Janis

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Hi Folks,


% FDN: Virtual Network
% Coordinator: Timothy Cornett, 1:135/364
%
% Internet: http://www.filegate.net/vnet/
% PATH: DIRECT
% HUB: Yes
% ------------------------------------------------------------------------
% File Echo Description
% ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Area VN_ADMIN 0 ! VNet: VNet Nodelist and Echolist
% Distribution
Area VN_INFO 0 ! VNet: VNet Info And How-To
Area VADV 0 ! VNet: VBBS/VADV Scripts, Mods and Updates

Take care,
Janis

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Hi Folks,

Web pages updated for Virtual Net FDN at filegate.net:

http://www.filegate.net/vnet/

takes you to main page where all Virtual file areas are listed.

http://www.filegate.net/vnet/vadv/ takes you right to the VADV file area.

Take care,
Janis

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* An ongoing debate between Janis Kracht and All rages on ...

Whomever is hatching files into the VADV area should be apprised of the 8.3 filename convention. LFNs are not supported here, sorry. :(

--
Be well :^)

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: Home page: http://users.lusfiber.net/~fido4cmech
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note to me

-----------------------------------------------

@TZ: 412c
Hi Folks,

Web pages updated for Virtual Net FDN at filegate.net:

http://www.filegate.net/vnet/

takes you to main page where all Virtual file areas are listed.

http://www.filegate.net/vnet/vadv/ takes you right to the VADV file area.

Take care,
Janis

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sorry about this, ment to send to my e-mail to take care of when I get home from vaction


---

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* An ongoing debate between Janis Kracht and All rages on ...

Whomever is hatching files into the VADV area should be apprised of the 8.3 filename convention. LFNs are not supported here, sorry. :(

Rats, missed that .. I'll let Timothy know.. Sorry about that.

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note to me

-----------------------------------------------

@TZ: 412c
Hi Folks,

Web pages updated for Virtual Net FDN at filegate.net:

http://www.filegate.net/vnet/

takes you to main page where all Virtual file areas are listed.

http://www.filegate.net/vnet/vadv/ takes you right to the VADV file area.

Take care,
Janis

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sorry about this, ment to send to my e-mail to take care of when I get home from vaction

Not a problem, I understand..

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* An ongoing debate between Janis Kracht and Ben Ritchey rages on ...

Rats, missed that .. I'll let Timothy know.. Sorry about that.

{chuckle} 30 lashings, with a wet noodle lol

--
Be well :^)

: Ben aka cMech Web: http://cmech.dynip.com:8080
: Home page: http://users.lusfiber.net/~fido4cmech
:
+ WildCat! Board 24/7 +1-337-984-4794 any BAUD 8,N,1
--- GoldED+/W32-MSVC
* Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68)

* An ongoing debate between Janis Kracht and Ben Ritchey rages on ...

Rats, missed that .. I'll let Timothy know.. Sorry about that.

{chuckle} 30 lashings, with a wet noodle lol

Lol.. ouch :)

Tim is talking to the team working on VADV to allow Replace and a new file will
be coming out sooner or later.. and he'll watch subsequent file releases.

Take care,
Janis

--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1
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* An ongoing debate between Janis Kracht and Ben Ritchey rages on ...

Tim is talking to the team working on VADV to allow Replace and a new
file will be coming out sooner or later.. and he'll watch subsequent
file releases.

merci mon ami

--
Be well :^)

: Ben aka cMech Web: http://cmech.dynip.com:8080
: Home page: http://users.lusfiber.net/~fido4cmech
:
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In a reply from Janis Kracht on 16:39 about Re: New FDN

note to me

-----------------------------------------------

Hi Folks,

Web pages updated for Virtual Net FDN at filegate.net:

http://www.filegate.net/vnet/

takes you to main page where all Virtual file areas are listed.

http://www.filegate.net/vnet/vadv/ takes you right to the VADV file >>area.

Take care,
Janis

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sorry about this, ment to send to my e-mail to take care of when I get home from vaction

Not a problem, I understand..

thanks :)

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telnet://time.synchro.net:24
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AIM : LordTime20000 MSN : Lord Time
Jabber : lordtime2000@gmail.com Astra : lord_time


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Hello mark!

Thursday March 24 2016 13:28, you wrote to me:

That said a working source copy of pktdate might be useful not
that I have seen bad dates on net or echo mail but ....

apparently you do not have folks feeding from your system that get
nostalgic and restore their old BBS setup from 15+ year old tapes or
CDs... BBS software that is not y2k compatible... software that mucks
up the year because the code doesn't do modulo arithmetic [eg: "year = (year-1900) mod 100"]... they get a result of 1xx when they subtract
1900 from the current year while trying to make it a two digit year
because they use math manipulation instead of string manipulation...
this is a quite common problem seen in C code of that era... it is
sometimes seen in code written in other languages but it is very
common in C code... today, that code will return 116 for the year
after they subtract 1900 and don't modulo it...

that's only ONE of the various problems that can happen... depending
on the rest of the processing it may make the PKT header one byte too
long or it could result in the last byte of the PKT header being truncated... then you get to the dates in the packed messages and they
could have headers that are one byte too long or be the proper length
but missing the last byte of the message header...

anyway, i thought i'd toss that out there to try to help explain the
problem of non-y2k compliant software and the possible date problems
they can cause...

Hmm, thanks for that, I have not noticed it but - I do not look and the mail from all of the areas that come through here.

In that case I should try and install it but still have the issue of the compiling warnings. If I can clear thoese I can plug it in to mbse.

For your interest here is the o/p from the attempt to compile it under Mageia v5 X64 Linux : -

-----------
[mbse@Applewood a]$ gcc pktdate.c
pktdate.c:38:6: warning: conflicting types for built-in function 'log'
void log(int loglevel, const char *fmt, ...);
^
pktdate.c: In function 'process_pkt':
pktdate.c:152:9: warning: overflow in implicit constant conversion [-Woverflow]
return FATAL_ERROR;
^
pktdate.c:159:9: warning: overflow in implicit constant conversion [-Woverflow]
return FATAL_ERROR;
^
/tmp/ccoDkgoG.o: In function `write_pkt':
pktdate.c:(.text+0xe5c): warning: the use of `tmpnam' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'

-----------

No I don't understand them other than a basic level :(


Vince

--- Mageia Linux v5/Mbse v1.0.6/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.501-b20150715
* Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK (2:250/1)

Hi Vince,

For your interest here is the o/p from the attempt to compile it under Mageia v5 X64 Linux : -

-----------
[mbse@Applewood a]$ gcc pktdate.c
pktdate.c:38:6: warning: conflicting types for built-in function 'log'
void log(int loglevel, const char *fmt, ...);
^
pktdate.c: In function 'process_pkt':
pktdate.c:152:9: warning: overflow in implicit constant conversion [-Woverflow]
return FATAL_ERROR;
^
pktdate.c:159:9: warning: overflow in implicit constant conversion [-Woverflow]
return FATAL_ERROR;
^
/tmp/ccoDkgoG.o: In function `write_pkt':
pktdate.c:(.text+0xe5c): warning: the use of `tmpnam' is dangerous, better use
`mkstemp'

-----------

No I don't understand them other than a basic level :(

It compiled here on my linux box.. same warnings as you saw but the compile did
create a file named a.out.

Because there was no makefile, the binary is named a.out here - which runs on the command like, if you type for example:

./a.out


Pktdate Rev. 1.5, written by Tobias Ernst @ 2:2476/418 et al.

Error: No arguments given.


I didn't give any arguments, but now that I see them listed, I can rename a.out
to pktdate and go from there.. should work fine.

Take care,
Janis

--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-2
* Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)

Hi Vince,

For your interest here is the o/p from the attempt to compile it under Mageia v5 X64 Linux : -

-----------
[mbse@Applewood a]$ gcc pktdate.c
pktdate.c:38:6: warning: conflicting types for built-in function 'log'
void log(int loglevel, const char *fmt, ...);
^
pktdate.c: In function 'process_pkt':
pktdate.c:152:9: warning: overflow in implicit constant conversion [-Woverflow]
return FATAL_ERROR;
^
pktdate.c:159:9: warning: overflow in implicit constant conversion [-Woverflow]
return FATAL_ERROR;
^
/tmp/ccoDkgoG.o: In function `write_pkt':
pktdate.c:(.text+0xe5c): warning: the use of `tmpnam' is dangerous, better use
`mkstemp'

-----------

No I don't understand them other than a basic level :(

It compiled here on my linux box.. same warnings as you saw but the compile did
create a file named a.out.

Because there was no makefile, the binary is named a.out here - which runs on the command like, if you type for example:

./a.out


Pktdate Rev. 1.5, written by Tobias Ernst @ 2:2476/418 et al.

Error: No arguments given.

Usage: pktdate [<language>] [<option> ...] <filename> [<filename> ...] [...]

I didn't give any arguments, but now that I see them listed, I can rename a.out
to pktdate and go from there.. should work fine.

Take care,
Janis

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Added this evening:

% FDN: INTERMAIL Mailer FDN
% Coordinator Dale Barnes, 1:1/133 (dalebarnes42@majik.net)
%
% PATH: DIRECT
% HUB: No
% ------------------------------------------------------------------------
% File Echo Description
% ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Area INTRMAIL 0 ! INTR: Intermail Mailer
%
%

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