Subj : winpoint: 1:1/1
To   : Martin Foster
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun May 10 2020 17:27:38

Hello Martin,

On Wednesday 06.05.20, you wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>> Winpoint needs to be running for that to work.  You're messin' with my
 AA>> mind.  :/   Make sure you have Winpoint running, drop a nodelist.z## in
 AA>> the \DistribNL folder and watch Winpoint change it from nodelist.z## to
 AA>> nodelist.###

 MF> I'm still watching and nothing's happened yet :)

Short of capturing on vidoe what I see, I don't know how to convince you that it *is* happening here.

Maybe your WinPoint is not activate to auto-unpack or something like that?

In Extras/Options/Automation, I have:

   List updates = Automatic in Background


 AA>> It was a brief confirmation in echomail.  Despite my archive of msgs in
 AA>> POINTS, I can't seem to spot the specific exchange we had about it.

 MF> I've found one that's relevant to this thread but I don't know if it's
 MF> the   same one you had in mind. Try doing a MsgID search for 4c120309
 MF> with   OpenXP...
[snip]

 MF> If you can't find that message, let me know and I'll repost it.

I found it, but not in my local OpenXP.  For me, that Winpoint discussion predated my introduction to OXP, so I looked in my Winpoint.  Thankfully, Winpoint automatically includes the msgid in its "text" searches!

In 4c1201309 the last sentence you wrote: "WinPoint's nodelist processor cannot process packed nodelist/pointlist files, although it can process packed nodediff/pointdiff files."

I hear ya.  But I swear to you, simply dropping the packed nodelist automatically unpacks here!   I still have to Shift+Ctl+L or "Fidonet/ProcessNodelist" manually for the new nodelist to update, however.


.../|ug

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