Subj : Bulletin MPL program
To   : All
From : Dennis Katsonis
Date : Fri Jan 21 2022 01:13 pm

  Re: Bulletin MPL program
  By: Dennis Katsonis to All on Fri Jan 21 2022 12:09 pm

 > As part of the prelogin for Mystic, we execute the MPL program "Bulletin" as
 > such
 > bulletin bulletin bullet check
 > 
 > The problem I have with the latest, Mystic 1.12 Alpha 47 on Raspberry Pi is 
 > check for new bulletins doesn't seem to work.  In fact, it doesn't seem to r
 >  I createa new bulleting (bullet6.ans) and update bulletin.asc in my theme
 > directory
 > /mystic/themes/neon/text/bulletin.asc
 > 
 > I have "(GX) Execute MPL program" in the prelogin menu, with "bulletin bulle
 > bullet check" in data, but if I createa  new bulletin in the themes text
 > directory, it doesn't get picked up on login as a new bulletin.  It doesn't
 > appear the check is run at all.  I can see the check for New Electronic Mail
 > but there is no indication that a check for new bulletins occurs.  I recall
 > that I would see this check even if there were no bulletins.
 > 
 > Nothing appears in the error log about this.  I upgraded from A46 to A47, an
 > think this is when this check stopped working.
 > 
 > Is there a way to run this MPL program manually?  If I can do that, I can se
 > if there is an error or something blocking it from running.  At least then, 
 > can start troubleshooting.
 > 
 > ... Dennis

I have found I can run it manually, but it doesn't detect that the files are
newer than the user last login date.

  FindFirst (Root + PreFix + '*.*', 63);

  While DosError = 0 Do Begin
    If DirTime > UserLastOn And Upper(Copy(DirName, 1, Pos('.', DirName) - 1))
<
> 'BULLETIN' Then Begin
      InStr := Copy(DirName, 7, Pos('.', DirName) - 7) + ' '


Is there a way to print the "DirTime"?  I'm not too familiar with Python, but I
suspect this is where things are going wrong.  The DirTime and UserLastOn are
not what they are expected to be.
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