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    From Jim Howarth@1:229/300 to All on Tue May 7 11:25:56 2024
    Greetings Sysops!

    I'm back after some time away from being in FTN networks/Running a BBS and I'm finding myself wondering how you handle nodelists?

    I would like to set it up so all of my nodelists get merged as soon as I get them. I was wondering how you guys handle this procedure. I know some of you must be doing something as I noticed when I rejoined Fido, a couple boards I visit already had the update on the daily nodelist.

    NerdRage is running Mystic on Windows XP. I'm currently using Mystic for mail completely...

    Let me know how you do it!


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  • From ogg@1:106/1 to Jim Howarth on Tue May 7 11:02:31 2024
    I would like to set it up so all of my nodelists get merged as soon as I get them. I was wondering how you guys handle this procedure. I know some of you must be doing something as I noticed when I rejoined Fido, a couple boards I visit already had the update on the daily nodelist.

    NerdRage is running Mystic on Windows XP. I'm currently using Mystic
    for mail completely...

    Let me know how you do it!

    Since you're running Mystic, just set up an event to run "mutil nodelist.ini" after you get the lists. I run it at about 11 am on Fridays. I get the fsxNet list on Thursdays while the others come in after midnight on Friday.

    ogg
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  • From Jim Howarth@1:229/300 to ogg on Tue May 7 13:05:47 2024
    Since you're running Mystic, just set up an event to run "mutil nodelist.ini" after you get the lists. I run it at about 11 am on Fridays. I get the fsxNet list on Thursdays while the others come in after midnight on Friday.

    I know how to compile it however I'm moreso curious about how you are getting it from the folder its in to a place where it can be compiled... or do you have the ini pointing just to the files folder (ie \mystic\files\nodelists) etc.

    Does mystic know which archive to use? I can see it working fine like that until a new year then it could be an issue?


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  • From ogg@1:106/1 to Jim Howarth on Tue May 7 13:21:40 2024
    I know how to compile it however I'm moreso curious about how you are getting it from the folder its in to a place where it can be compiled... or do you have the ini pointing just to the files folder (ie \mystic\files\nodelists) etc.

    Does mystic know which archive to use? I can see it working fine like that until a new year then it could be an issue?

    What I've done to make things easier is to breakout different sections of the original "mutil.ini" file into sectons. One I call nodelist.ini. In it, you need to have the location of your different nodelist files defined. Another one I broke out, I call mailin.ini. The original mutil.ini has examples that you can follow. You just need to define, for instance, node numbers with local file locations.

    As to archiver, the node lists I'm getting are all using the "zip" archiver.
    If I remember correctly, you set that option up when applying for a node number.

    Here's a github site (https://github.com/christiansacks/tqw_mutil_inis) where Christian Sacks (tqwnet, the quantum wormhole), uploaded a bunch of his *.ini files. That may help you more than slogging through the whole mutil.ini file.

    If those files don't help, post again and we'll keep at it!

    ogg
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  • From Jim Howarth@1:229/300 to ogg on Tue May 7 15:32:34 2024
    I haven't found it yet.. but I think I have figured out my filetoss and echomail toss stanza's... looks like you need a default config up until the node specific stuff and then do the node numbers etc.. ie a dir_prefix as a default and hen one specific for each network. Gonna try that when I get home. or now.. shhh.. don't tell my boss... wait.. I'm my boss..

    Just found the nodelist merge.. I see how people do it.. just point to the file folder it gets put into by the tic tosser.

    Thanks for your help.. those ini examples make a lot more sense to me then the originals.


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    -- telnet: nerdragebbs.ddns.net

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  • From ogg@1:106/1 to Jim Howarth on Tue May 7 15:44:01 2024
    Just found the nodelist merge.. I see how people do it.. just point to the file folder it gets put into by the tic tosser.

    Thanks for your help.. those ini examples make a lot more sense to me
    then the originals.

    Happy to help!

    ogg
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    altairiv.ddns.net:2323

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