Subj : Checking for new bulletins
To   : All
From : Adept
Date : Mon Aug 10 2020 18:42:14

Has anyone gotten the new-bulletin check working?

I was trying to add a bulletin check so that after I edit bullet1.asc to say
what's new on my BBS, that the next time I login it'll show that bulletin.

So I followed the directions, and put a menu command of, "bulletin bulletin
bullet check", and it just keeps returning that there are no new bulletins,
regardless of when I edit the bullet1.asc, or if I create bullet2.asc.

So now I'm out of ideas. Reading the code, this seems like the pertinent line:

If DirTime > UserLastOn And Upper(Copy(DirName, 1, Pos('.', DirName) - 1)) <>
'BULLETIN'

....which seems like it should work just fine.

Also, the command, aside from "check", is the same command I use to launch
the bulletin menu, which displays the bulletin correctly. So I'd assume that
the directories and whatnot are setup correctly for this.

And I searched my FSXnet message bases to see if anything of note would pop
up, but saw nothing. Closest I saw was The Godfather complaining about how
terrible the bulletin system was, and if people had favorite replacement
scripts.

But no one answered that one, either, so now I'm kinda wondering if people
have answers for that question, too. :)

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