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    From Frank Linhares@1:250/501 to All on Monday, November 10, 2008 00:09:13
    Can anyone reccomend a good tic processor for linux that isn't htick.

    I have tried to get tinytic to work properly, and I really wish I could, but there seems to be two problems with it. First, if the tic isn't in uppercase then it won't see it and second, if the tic is in uppercase then it will say that it can't find the tinytic cfg.

    Anyone know if tinytic is still being supported?

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.1 to Frank Linhares on Monday, November 10, 2008 03:55:40
    Hello Frank,

    Can anyone reccomend a good tic processor for linux that isn't htick.

    The ticer built into MBSE BBS works like a charm.. :)

    I have tried to get tinytic to work properly, and I really wish I
    could, but there seems to be two problems with it. First, if the tic isn't in uppercase then it won't see it and second, if the tic is in uppercase then it will say that it can't find the tinytic cfg.

    Anyone know if tinytic is still being supported?

    Sean Dennis is still active in fidonet. He was one of the developers of tinytic
    IIRC. I'd ask him in netmail, or I think he can be found in BBS_CARNIVAL.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

    ... Love is blind, marriage is the eye-opener.
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  • From Frank Linhares@1:250/501 to Alan Ianson on Monday, November 10, 2008 09:38:58
    Re: tic processor
    By: Alan Ianson to Frank Linhares on Mon Nov 10 2008 03:55 am

    The ticer built into MBSE BBS works like a charm.. :)

    Can the ticer in MBSE be used by it's self as I am not using MBSE as my BBS software

    Sean Dennis is still active in fidonet. He was one of the developers of tinytic IIRC. I'd ask him in netmail, or I think he can be found in BBS_CARNIVAL.

    I'll try to track him down to see if he has any ideas.

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  • From Ross Cassell@1:123/456 to Frank Linhares on Monday, November 10, 2008 09:58:30
    Hello Frank!

    10 Nov 08 00:09, you wrote to All:

    Can anyone reccomend a good tic processor for linux that isn't htick.

    Wht issues are you having with htick Frank?

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  • From Frank Linhares@1:250/501 to Ross Cassell on Monday, November 10, 2008 10:26:52
    Re: tic processor
    By: Ross Cassell to Frank Linhares on Mon Nov 10 2008 09:58 am

    Wht issues are you having with htick Frank?

    Well, I have htick running on my mail hub without a problem, my bbs machine is a whole different story.

    everytime I try to toss a tic this is what I get ....

    File: size: 0 area:nodediff from 0:0/0 orig: 0:0/0
    Link for Tic from Address '0:0/0' not found

    Funny thing is that the config looks perfect, yet it doesn't want to toss the tic.

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  • From Ross Cassell@1:123/456 to Frank Linhares on Monday, November 10, 2008 11:22:18
    Hello Frank!

    10 Nov 08 10:26, you wrote to me:

    Wht issues are you having with htick Frank?

    Well, I have htick running on my mail hub without a problem, my bbs machine is a whole different story.

    everytime I try to toss a tic this is what I get ....

    File: size: 0 area:nodediff from 0:0/0 orig: 0:0/0
    Link for Tic from Address '0:0/0' not found

    Funny thing is that the config looks perfect, yet it doesn't want to
    toss the tic.

    Have you actually looked inside the problematic TIC file?

    ==
    Ross
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  • From Frank Linhares@1:250/501 to Ross Cassell on Monday, November 10, 2008 11:34:58
    Re: tic processor
    By: Ross Cassell to Frank Linhares on Mon Nov 10 2008 11:22 am

    Have you actually looked inside the problematic TIC file?

    Yes, and the tic comes from my mail hub which is processing the tics with htick. All of my other downlinks are able to process tic's just fine and I have been able to process them using allfix with dosemu without a problem.

    So to shorten the answer, yes the .tic files looks just fine, contains all of the fields, etc, etc, and permisions look just fine too on the directories and config files.

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.1 to Frank Linhares on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:40:22
    Hello Frank,

    The ticer built into MBSE BBS works like a charm.. :)

    Can the ticer in MBSE be used by it's self as I am not using MBSE as
    my BBS software

    Probably not. The MBSE BBS package isn't modular at all. When tics arrive they are added to the filebase and then sent on to your links. It wouldn't be easy to make that work with another BBS package. Probably not impossible but not easy.

    Sean Dennis is still active in fidonet. He was one of the developers
    of tinytic IIRC. I'd ask him in netmail, or I think he can be found
    in BBS_CARNIVAL.

    I'll try to track him down to see if he has any ideas.

    I think htick is your solution if you can figure out what is happening. I used htick with sbbs at one time with good results.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

    ... As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.
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    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, B.C. Canada - trmb.ca (1:153/757.1)
  • From Frank Linhares@1:250/501 to Alan Ianson on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 16:49:11
    Re: tic processor
    By: Alan Ianson to Frank Linhares on Tue Nov 11 2008 11:40 am

    I think htick is your solution if you can figure out what is happening. I used htick with sbbs at one time with good results.

    I really don't need the power of htick for my bbs system (on my mail hub I run the full suite of husky tools including htick), I just needed something to toss the files into their proper directories. Using some crafty bash scripting and dosemu, I have gotten the dos version of tinytic to work flawlessly.

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  • From Russell Tiedt@5:7105/1 to Frank Linhares on Saturday, November 15, 2008 07:28:02
    Hello Frank.

    10 Nov 08 09:38, you wrote to Alan Ianson:

    The ticer built into MBSE BBS works like a charm.. :)

    Can the ticer in MBSE be used by it's self as I am not using MBSE as
    my BBS software

    I doudt it ...

    Russell

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