Subj : Re: SBBS and binkd...
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Martin Kazmaier
Date : Wed Jun 03 2026 08:59 pm


 DW> Sounds like he set his system up and changed "a" config file, but not the
 DW> right one.

 DW> With SBBS, if he is using actual binkd, this could mean at least two
 DW> things:

 DW> (1) he has only made changes to the native SBBS sbbsecho.ini file, and in
 DW> the scfg program, which would only work if you are using binkit.
 DW> It would have *no* affect on how binkd works. In order to run binkd
 DW> with SBBS, you also have to edit the binkd.cfg file to add your
 DW> info.

 DW> (2) he has made changes to a copy of the binkd.cfg file but his running
 DW> binkd instance is pulling an unchanged copy from somewhere else.

 DW> So, he needs to make sure he made his changes to binkd.cfg, and make sure
 DW> his binkd instance is reading that copy.

Thanks!  Yeah, he's running binkit and binkd.  He was able to figure that
much out after all of these suggestions.  Thanks guys!  He thought he stopped
binkd, but I'm getting the same results...  Hopefully he can get this working
so I can poll him properly.

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