Subj : [SemPoint] Message areas not showing
To   : Martin Foster
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun May 26 2019 11:52:00

Hello Martin!

** 26.05.19 - 13:44, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

 MF>I generated a new one with 'crashexport' this morning:

 MF>---------- 8< ----------
 MF>; Generated by CrashExport 1.0
 MF>; Sun May 26 09:17:29 2019
 MF>---------- 8< ----------

 MF>However, by pure chance, I noticed that the file had UNIX line
 MF>endings. Huh!?

That should be a big clue.  You have to think "DOS" for this, especially  
the text files that you can edit manually.


 MF>I changed the line endings to DOS, popped the file in my SemPoint
 MF>directory and configured SemPoint to use the AREAS.BBS file but it
 MF>GPF'd on me again. I then removed everything from the file apart from
 MF>the last two lines and this time, SemPoint didn't GPF on me. However,
 MF>I still don't have an area list but I know something's changed because
 MF>AREE.CFG is a bit bigger than it was before and the date/time stamps
 MF>have changed.

You can also take a look inside and see if the text strings that you  
expect are there.  There will be a lot of control chars inbetween the pure  
text, but if you look at the file with WordPad for example, the control  
chars with be little blocks or spaces that don't interfere with reading  
the text.


 AA>> If you are only needing one area (for test and evaluation purposes), why
 AA>> not Configure the area manually.
-------- [Snip] ---------
 AA>> Hope this helps.

 MF>Yes it does thanks because I now have an area list containing the one
 MF>area and I can read the messages.

Another thing to watch out for when configuring SEM, stick to max 8 chars  
for directory names and 8.3 max for file names.   SEM predates WinXP a  
little bit.

I ran into this problem when I was pointing SEM to my Apoint-created JAM  
areas directly, not realizing that some of the path/dir names in Apoint  
were long.

I now have a JAM base for FIDOTEST that I can read and write to without  
the system crashing on me.  (Now I just need to add the tosser and binkd  
to take it to the next level).


 AA>> [BTW..  I still haven't received my Fastecho reg key  :(  ]
 MF>Can't imagine why, perhaps you should give Tobias a gentle nudge?

I think it still "works" without the key, right?  Meanwhile, I'll see what  
CrashMail can do.  I've received a lot of encouragement to use CrashMail  
over FE or FM.


  ../|ug

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