Subj : Issue with BinkD and outbound attempts.
To   : mark lewis
From : Andrew Leary
Date : Sun Mar 29 2020 03:01 am

Hello mark!

 ml> i did (finally) find the text of a message where stas replied to me in
 ml> reference to my questions about 5D while working on my 4DOS/4OS2
 ml> scripts... i think this was back in about 2011 going by the version of
 ml> his golded... unfortulately i cannot currently get to the actual
 ml> header of his message...


 ml> ----->8 snip 8<-----

 ml> Hello mark.

 ml> 25 Jul 12 17:04, you wrote to me:

 ml>> eg:
 ml>> domain fidonet x:\\bink\\outbound\\fidonet 1
 ml>> domain quartz x:\\bink\\outbound\\quartz 123

 ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET
 ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .002
 ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .003
 ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .004
 ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .005
 ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .006
 ml> OK
 ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ  .07B
 ml> Invalid, should be:
 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ
 ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ  .07C
 ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ  .07D
 ml> OK
 ml>> the above indicates fidonet is zones 1,2,3,4,5,6 and quartz is
 ml>> 123,124,125??

 ml> Zone 123 specified as "default for the domain quartz" and outbound
 ml> directory for 123:*@quartz should be without number in suffix.

 ml>> and if i have foobar net with zone 124 (duplicate zone, different
 ml>> domain) then...

 ml>> domain fidonet x:\\bink\\outbound\\fidonet 1
 ml>> domain quartz x:\\bink\\outbound\\quartz 123
 ml>> domain foobar x:\\bink\\outbound\\foobar 124

 ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET
 ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .002
 ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .003
 ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .004
 ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .005
 ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FIDONET .006
 ml> OK
 ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FOOBAR  .07C
 ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ  .07B
 ml> Invalid, should be:
 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\FOOBAR
 ml> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ

 ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ  .07C
 ml>> X:\BINK\OUTBOUND\QUARTZ  .07D
 ml> OK
 ml>> the above indicates fidonet is zones 1,2,3,4,5,6... foobar is
 ml>> 124... quartz is 123,124,125???

 ml> Stas
 ml> Jabber-ID: grumbler@grumbler.org
 ml> GPG key 0x72186DB9 (keyserver: hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net)
 ml> .!. Golded+, Husky & RNTrack maintainer, Binkd developer&webmaster
 ml> -!- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20110302
 ml>  ! Origin: Grumbler at home (2:5080/102.1)

 ml> ----->8 snip 8<-----

 ml> i've taken and used the above as the definitive format for a proper 5D
 ml> outbound directory layout ever since... specifically, the *default
 ml> outbound for each domain has no hex zone extension* on it while all
 ml> the others do...

This is how MBSE works with a BSO outbound as well.

Andrew

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