• New FDN

    From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to All on Friday, November 14, 2008 00:22:58
    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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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to All on Thursday, April 30, 2009 08:21:48
    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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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to All on Thursday, February 09, 2012 13:15:22
    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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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to All on Saturday, February 16, 2013 20:17:24
    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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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to All on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 13:51:26
    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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  • From Ben Ritchey@1:393/68 to Janis Kracht on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 13:27:02
    * 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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  • From Robert E Starr JR@1:340/400 to Robert E Starr JR on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 13:07:54
    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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    Time Warp of the Future BBS
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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Ben Ritchey on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 16:39:06
    * 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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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Robert E Starr JR on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 16:39:50
    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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  • From Ben Ritchey@1:393/68 to Janis Kracht on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 16:58:14
    * 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

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    Be well :^)

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    : Home page: http://users.lusfiber.net/~fido4cmech
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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Ben Ritchey on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 20:54:26
    * 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

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  • From Ben Ritchey@1:393/68 to Janis Kracht on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 20:06:24
    * 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 :^)

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    : Home page: http://users.lusfiber.net/~fido4cmech
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  • From Robert E Starr JR@1:340/400 to Janis Kracht on Thursday, February 21, 2013 10:10:00
    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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    Lord Time SysOp of Time Warp of the Future BBS
    telnet://time.synchro.net:24
    ICQ # 11868133 Yahoo : lordtime2000
    AIM : LordTime20000 MSN : Lord Time
    Jabber : lordtime2000@gmail.com Astra : lord_time


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  • From Vince Coen@2:250/1 to mark lewis on Friday, March 25, 2016 18:35:38
    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

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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Vince Coen on Friday, March 25, 2016 16:29:04
    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

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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Vince Coen on Friday, March 25, 2016 16:32:36
    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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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to All on Wednesday, September 13, 2017 01:38:52
    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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