Subj : Re: Even more questions!
To   : Marc Lewis
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Sun Dec 20 2020 08:02 pm

  Re: Re: Even more questions!
  By: Marc Lewis to Alan Ianson on Sun Dec 20 2020 06:40 pm

 ML> Here again is the first line of my binkd.cfg:
 ML> domain fidonet Q:\\fido_out\\out\\ 1

This is my domain line for fidonet..

domain fidonet /usr/local/fido/outbound 1

I wonder if the trailing "\\" in your domain line is needed, or if it makes a difference.

 ML> And the node's line in the NODES.CFG file:
 ML> node 2:280/464@fidonet fido.vlzn.nl (password) c

That looks good to me.

 ML> I also note that on that machine, which is substantially more powerful
 ML> than this machine, binkd takes up over 96% of the processor, making the
 ML> other programs and .cmd files quite lethargic.

That is a problem. Binkd on my machine also takes roughly 2% when idle and may spike up a bit when polling nodes but comes back down to 2% when done.

Just a suggestion, run binkd with the -d option and have a look at the output and see if everything looks as it should.

I am now running under linux but when I first ran binkd I was running under OS/2 and binkd ran great for me under OS/2 as it does under linux.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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