• GoldED on Windows 10 32bits

    From DavidG@21:3/188 to All on Tue Oct 15 16:51:06 2024
    Hello @all

    I remember my good old sysop days and I used to use GoldED as my message reader, I'm now on a Win1032 bit VM running Mystic and no doors yet and I downloaded GoldED 2.50 and 3, tried them out with no luck, I even enabled Windows 95 compa\tibility mode, when fired up it asks for elevation and when I click Yes, a quick black console screen justs shows up adn colses instantly.

    I think i saw GoldED on a sig somewhere on these boards, but I don't really klnow if that was Linux... I may move to Linux sommetime in the future but I want to get my stuff rteady first.

    Adny advice is welcome fellas.

    ---
    Best Regards/Saludos
    David Gonzalez (Mister G)
    SkyNet BBS | Medellin, Colombia | bbs.skynetbbs.com:20023

    ... No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to DavidG on Tue Oct 15 17:28:24 2024
    On Tue, Oct 15 21:51:06 -0500, you wrote:

    I remember my good old sysop days and I used to use GoldED as my message reader, I'm now on a Win1032 bit VM running Mystic and no doors yet and
    I downloaded GoldED 2.50 and 3, tried them out with no luck, I even
    enabled Windows 95 compa\tibility mode, when fired up it asks for
    elevation and when I click Yes, a quick black console screen justs shows
    up adn colses instantly.

    The blank screen may just be an indication of a configuration error. If you're using a default configuration file and didn't change paths or configure it completely to your setup, even the latest versions of Golded will go to a blank screen and close.

    I think i saw GoldED on a sig somewhere on these boards, but I don't
    really klnow if that was Linux... I may move to Linux sommetime in the future but I want to get my stuff rteady first.

    The latest version of Golded, I believe is from March 9, 2024.. and the sources can be found on github.

    There are also links to pre-compiled Windows versions out there. Here is one that I found in the GOLDED echo on Fidonet:

    http://download.golded.org/win/golded-plus-1.1.5-20240306-win32-msvc6.zip

    That should be one line with no spaces if it wrapped on your end.

    Adny advice is welcome fellas.

    Hope that helps!

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Orphan@21:2/119 to DavidG on Tue Oct 15 21:10:21 2024

    Hello DavidG!

    15 Oct 24 16:51, you wrote to all:

    Hello @all

    I remember my good old sysop days and I used to use GoldED as my
    message reader, I'm now on a Win1032 bit VM running Mystic and no
    doors yet and I downloaded GoldED 2.50 and 3, tried them out with no
    luck, I even enabled Windows 95 compa\tibility mode, when fired up it
    asks for elevation and when I click Yes, a quick black console screen justs shows up adn colses instantly.

    I think i saw GoldED on a sig somewhere on these boards, but I don't really klnow if that was Linux... I may move to Linux sommetime in the future but I want to get my stuff rteady first.

    Search for GoldED+ or Golded Plus, it should work on current Windows, I'm using it on Windows 11 64 bit.

    Adny advice is welcome fellas.

    ---
    Best Regards/Saludos
    David Gonzalez (Mister G)
    SkyNet BBS | Medellin, Colombia | bbs.skynetbbs.com:20023

    ... No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.

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    Orphan


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  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Davidg on Tue Oct 15 22:57:32 2024
    On 15 Oct 24 16:51:06, Davidg said the following to All:

    Hello @all

    Slightly off-topic, I replied to your Netmail about Fidonet.

    Atreyu

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  • From DavidG@21:3/188 to All on Tue Oct 15 16:51:06 2024
    Hello @all

    I remember my good old sysop days and I used to use GoldED as my message reader, I'm now on a Win1032 bit VM running Mystic and no doors yet and I downloaded GoldED 2.50 and 3, tried them out with no luck, I even enabled Windows 95 compa\tibility mode, when fired up it asks for elevation and when I click Yes, a quick black console screen justs shows up adn colses instantly.

    I think i saw GoldED on a sig somewhere on these boards, but I don't really klnow if that was Linux... I may move to Linux sommetime in the future but I want to get my stuff rteady first.

    Adny advice is welcome fellas.

    ---
    Best Regards/Saludos
    David Gonzalez (Mister G)
    SkyNet BBS | Medellin, Colombia | bbs.skynetbbs.com:20023

    ... No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: SkyNet BBS | Colombia | bbs.dkynetbbs.com:20023 (21:3/188)
  • From DavidG@21:3/188 to Orphan on Thu Oct 17 18:46:07 2024
    Awesome Orphan,

    IAs soon as I saw the icon I remembered it, fo course... well, it's been 20+ years since.

    Now I need to figure out a way to generate or find a golded.cfg and remember how it was done.

    Best regards.

    ---
    Best Regards/Saludos
    David Gonzalez (Mister G)
    SkyNet BBS | Medellin, Colombia | bbs.skynetbbs.com:20023

    ... Reward for a job well done: More work

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  • From DavidG@21:3/188 to Atreyu on Thu Oct 17 18:47:29 2024
    Still trying to work my way but sometimes I mess up, apologies

    ---
    Best Regards/Saludos
    David Gonzalez (Mister G)
    SkyNet BBS | Medellin, Colombia | bbs.skynetbbs.com:20023

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  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Davidg on Thu Oct 17 20:33:20 2024
    On 17 Oct 24 18:47:29, Davidg said the following to Atreyu:

    Still trying to work my way but sometimes I mess up, apologies

    All good man.

    Atreyu

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  • From David Gonzalez@21:3/188 to Atreyu on Thu Oct 17 19:19:26 2024

    Hello Atreyu!

    Replying to a msg dated 15 Oct 24 22:57, from you to Davidg.

    Sorry didn't see any Netmail from you.

    David


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  • From David Gonzalez@21:3/188 to Accession on Thu Oct 17 19:31:28 2024

    Hello Accession!

    15 Oct 24 17:28, you wrote to DavidG:

    Learning GoldED again, bro memories....

    On Tue, Oct 15 21:51:06 -0500, you wrote:

    I remember my good old sysop days and I used to use GoldED as my
    message reader, I'm now on a Win1032 bit VM running Mystic and no
    doors yet and I downloaded GoldED 2.50 and 3, tried them out with
    no luck, I even enabled Windows 95 compa\tibility mode, when fired
    up it asks for elevation and when I click Yes, a quick black
    console screen justs shows up adn colses instantly.

    The blank screen may just be an indication of a configuration error.
    If you're using a default configuration file and didn't change paths
    or configure it completely to your setup, even the latest versions of Golded will go to a blank screen and close.

    yup! found out the hard way, I skimmed through the README.1ST from older versions and got it running again, I did find that I needed, Name, Address and AREADEF, I'm using Mystic so I found the export golded and export areas.bbs and I ran both, I have a config that looks like this but still have some issues:

    USERNAME David Gonzalez
    ADDRESS 21:3/188
    AREADEF Netmail "NETMAIL" 0 Net OPUS d:\bbs\mystic\msgs
    AREAFILE AreasBBS d:\bbs\mystic\areas.bbs

    - Netmail doesn't show anything.
    - I'd like to start on the message area list
    - How do I import area descripction so they don't show up as FSX_MYS but description.
    - I've replied to many messages from GoldED, now how do I get those out using Mystic's mutil?

    I think i saw GoldED on a sig somewhere on these boards, but I
    don't really klnow if that was Linux... I may move to Linux
    sommetime in the future but I want to get my stuff rteady first.

    The latest version of Golded, I believe is from March 9, 2024.. and
    the sources can be found on github.

    There are also links to pre-compiled Windows versions out there. Here
    is one that I found in the GOLDED echo on Fidonet:

    http://download.golded.org/win/golded-plus-1.1.5-20240306-win32-msvc6.
    zip

    That should be one line with no spaces if it wrapped on your end.

    Adny advice is welcome fellas.

    Hope that helps!

    It did and thanks, now I need to get it set to play along iwth Mystic.

    Cheers

    Regards,
    Nick

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    David


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  • From Orphan@21:2/119 to DavidG on Fri Oct 18 19:03:41 2024

    Hello DavidG!

    17 Oct 24 18:46, you wrote to me:

    Awesome Orphan,

    IAs soon as I saw the icon I remembered it, fo course... well, it's
    been 20+ years since.

    Now I need to figure out a way to generate or find a golded.cfg and remember how it was done.

    Sending you how mine is via Netmail so you can work from there.

    Best regards.

    ---
    Best Regards/Saludos
    David Gonzalez (Mister G)
    SkyNet BBS | Medellin, Colombia | bbs.skynetbbs.com:20023

    ... Reward for a job well done: More work

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    Regards
    Orphan


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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to David Gonzalez on Fri Oct 18 17:46:00 2024
    On Fri, Oct 18 00:31:28 -0500, you wrote:

    yup! found out the hard way, I skimmed through the README.1ST from older versions and got it running again, I did find that I needed, Name,
    Address and AREADEF, I'm using Mystic so I found the export golded and export areas.bbs and I ran both, I have a config that looks like this
    but still have some issues:

    USERNAME David Gonzalez
    ADDRESS 21:3/188
    AREADEF Netmail "NETMAIL" 0 Net OPUS d:\bbs\mystic\msgs
    AREAFILE AreasBBS d:\bbs\mystic\areas.bbs

    - Netmail doesn't show anything.

    Use JAM instead of OPUS.

    - I'd like to start on the message area list
    - How do I import area descripction so they don't show up as FSX_MYS but description.

    To answer these, you may have to set all of your AREADEF's manually, rather than using the areas.bbs from Mystic. This is how I do it here, so I have separators (using AREASEP) to separate the networks, then the areas for those specific networks listed under the separator.

    - I've replied to many messages from GoldED, now how do I get those out using Mystic's mutil?

    You would either have to force mutil to run, then poll out. Or you could probably setup a batch file that does this, and then utilize Golded's function keys (for example, setup F12 to run this batch file, and hint: take a look at GOLDKEYS.CFG), that would run 'mutil toss.ini' and 'mis poll <node>'.

    So when you're done writing all of your messages, you can just hit F12 which would toss and send out your messages, then you can exit Golded till next time.

    Another way may be as easy as making an F-key create an echomail.out/netmail.out semaphore in Mystic's semaphore directory (if you use semaphores with Mystic, of course), too.

    It did and thanks, now I need to get it set to play along iwth Mystic.

    No worries, and glad it helped!

    Golded plays very nice with Mystic. You just have to remember it's an external program that's sharing the JAM message bases. Some things may have to be done manually as Mystic isn't going to automatically detect that you posted a message in Golded.

    Regards,
    Nick

    ... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
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  • From David Gonzalez@21:3/188 to Accession on Fri Oct 18 20:44:36 2024

    Hello Accession!

    18 Oct 24 17:46, you wrote to me:

    On Fri, Oct 18 00:31:28 -0500, you wrote:

    - Netmail doesn't show anything.

    Use JAM instead of OPUS.

    Changing to JAM now,

    - I'd like to start on the message area list
    - How do I import area descripction so they don't show up as
    FSX_MYS but description.

    To answer these, you may have to set all of your AREADEF's manually, rather than using the areas.bbs from Mystic. This is how I do it here,
    so I have separators (using AREASEP) to separate the networks, then
    the areas for those specific networks listed under the separator.

    *Manually* just like in the good old '90s, ARAEASEP?... huh, can you share a like or a sample golded.cfg, looking into creating something more than what I have ATM. and that was my followup question: I want to separate mail from Fido, FSX and Micronet, but how, AREASEP?. Akso, how do I deal with areas, as my node is updating constantly with all new areas that receive new mail and are autocreated, how do I prepend like FIDO: FSX:, do I make my own areas.bbs with descriptions as you suggest?. whjat about that goldareas.txt file Mystic exports?, I tried to use that with GoldED and got empty list.

    - I've replied to many messages from GoldED, now how do I get
    those out using Mystic's mutil?

    You would either have to force mutil to run, then poll out. Or you
    could probably setup a batch file that does this, and then utilize Golded's function keys (for example, setup F12 to run this batch file,
    and hint: take a look at GOLDKEYS.CFG), that would run 'mutil
    toss.ini' and 'mis poll <node>'.

    GOLDKEYS.CFG, huh, interesting, any MAGIC I can use to get a copy?.

    So when you're done writing all of your messages, you can just hit F12 which would toss and send out your messages, then you can exit Golded
    till next time.

    Another way may be as easy as making an F-key create an echomail.out/netmail.out semaphore in Mystic's semaphore directory (if
    you use semaphores with Mystic, of course), too.

    Yup, just like I did with a batch I created to run 'mis', before I do it executes 'mutil mailout', will take your advice, oh yeah!.

    It did and thanks, now I need to get it set to play along iwth
    Mystic.

    No worries, and glad it helped!

    Golded plays very nice with Mystic. You just have to remember it's an external program that's sharing the JAM message bases. Some things may have to be done manually as Mystic isn't going to automatically detect that you posted a message in Golded.

    Semaphores, that was the key back in the Golded+fastecho+frontdoor era.

    Regards,
    Nick

    David


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  • From DavidG@21:3/188 to Orphan on Fri Oct 18 21:55:10 2024
    From the BBS, got your netmail, but as you said no attache.

    Thanks tho

    ---
    Best Regards/Saludos
    David Gonzalez (Mister G)
    SkyNet BBS | Medellin, Colombia | bbs.skynetbbs.com:20023

    ... If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents!

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  • From David Gonzalez@21:3/188 to Accession on Sat Oct 19 16:40:18 2024

    Hello Accession!

    18 Oct 24 17:46, you wrote to me:

    USERNAME David Gonzalez
    ADDRESS 21:3/188
    AREADEF Netmail "NETMAIL" 0 Net OPUS d:\bbs\mystic\msgs
    AREAFILE AreasBBS d:\bbs\mystic\areas.bbs

    - Netmail doesn't show anything.

    Use JAM instead of OPUS.

    Changed to: AREADEF Netmail "NETMAIL" 0 Net JAM d:\bbs\mystic\msgs

    Same thing, do I have to specify the file?.


    - I'd like to start on the message area list
    - How do I import area descripction so they don't show up as
    FSX_MYS but description.

    To answer these, you may have to set all of your AREADEF's manually, rather than using the areas.bbs from Mystic. This is how I do it here,
    so I have separators (using AREASEP) to separate the networks, then
    the areas for those specific networks listed under the separator.

    - I've replied to many messages from GoldED, now how do I get
    those out using Mystic's mutil?

    You would either have to force mutil to run, then poll out. Or you
    could probably setup a batch file that does this, and then utilize Golded's function keys (for example, setup F12 to run this batch file,
    and hint: take a look at GOLDKEYS.CFG), that would run 'mutil
    toss.ini' and 'mis poll <node>'.

    So when you're done writing all of your messages, you can just hit F12 which would toss and send out your messages, then you can exit Golded
    till next time.

    Another way may be as easy as making an F-key create an echomail.out/netmail.out semaphore in Mystic's semaphore directory (if
    you use semaphores with Mystic, of course), too.

    It did and thanks, now I need to get it set to play along iwth
    Mystic.

    No worries, and glad it helped!

    Golded plays very nice with Mystic. You just have to remember it's an external program that's sharing the JAM message bases. Some things may have to be done manually as Mystic isn't going to automatically detect that you posted a message in Golded.

    I'm looking into that too

    Regards,
    Nick


    David


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  • From David Gonzalez@21:3/188 to Accession on Sun Oct 20 08:26:19 2024

    Hello Accession!

    18 Oct 24 17:46, you wrote to me:

    On Fri, Oct 18 00:31:28 -0500, you wrote:

    yup! found out the hard way, I skimmed through the README.1ST
    from older versions and got it running again, I did find that I
    needed, Name, Address and AREADEF, I'm using Mystic so I found
    the export golded and export areas.bbs and I ran both, I have a
    config that looks like this but still have some issues:

    USERNAME David Gonzalez
    ADDRESS 21:3/188
    AREADEF Netmail "NETMAIL" 0 Net OPUS d:\bbs\mystic\msgs
    AREAFILE AreasBBS d:\bbs\mystic\areas.bbs

    - Netmail doesn't show anything.

    Use JAM instead of OPUS.

    - I'd like to start on the message area list
    - How do I import area descripction so they don't show up as
    FSX_MYS but description.

    To answer these, you may have to set all of your AREADEF's manually, rather than using the areas.bbs from Mystic. This is how I do it here,
    so I have separators (using AREASEP) to separate the networks, then
    the areas for those specific networks listed under the separator.

    I did export goldareas.txt with mutil and it spitted out this which looks promissing

    ; Created by Mystic BBS on 18 Oct 2024 at 22:02:19
    ;
    ; Echo Tag Description Group Type Format Path AKA Attribute Origin
    AREADEF localbbs "[LOC] Area Local" 0 Local JAM d:\bbs\mystic\msgs\localbbs . (Loc) "SkyNet BBS | Colombia | bbs.dkynetbbs.com:20023"
    AREADEF LOC_DUPES "[LOC] Duplicados" 0 Local JAM d:\bbs\mystic\msgs\dupes . (Loc) "SkyNet BBS | Colombia | bbs.skynetbbs.com:20023"
    AREADEF netmail "[FSX] Netmail" 0 Net JAM d:\bbs\mystic\msgs\netmail . (Loc Pvt) "SkyNet BBS | Colombia | bbs.dkynetbbs.com:20023"
    AREADEF FSX_TST "[FSX] Test (ENG)" 0 Echo JAM d:\bbs\mystic\msgs\fsxtst 21:3/188 (Loc) "SkyNet BBS | Colombia | bbs.dkynetbbs.com:20023"
    AREADEF FSX_GEN "[FSX] General (ENG)" 0 Echo JAM d:\bbs\mystic\msgs\fsxgen 21:3/188 (Loc) "SkyNet BBS | Colombia | bbs.dkynetbbs.com:20023"
    [...]
    AREADEF FSX_MYS "[FSX] Mystic BBS" 0 Echo JAM d:\bbs\mystic\msgs\fsx_mys 21:3/188 (Loc) "SkyNet BBS | Colombia | bbs.dkynetbbs.com:20023"

    But I'm not really sure how to make GoldED play nice with this file.

    - I've replied to many messages from GoldED, now how do I get
    those out using Mystic's mutil?

    You would either have to force mutil to run, then poll out. Or you
    could probably setup a batch file that does this, and then utilize Golded's function keys (for example, setup F12 to run this batch file,
    and hint: take a look at GOLDKEYS.CFG), that would run 'mutil
    toss.ini' and 'mis poll <node>'.

    So when you're done writing all of your messages, you can just hit F12 which would toss and send out your messages, then you can exit Golded
    till next time.

    Another way may be as easy as making an F-key create an echomail.out/netmail.out semaphore in Mystic's semaphore directory (if
    you use semaphores with Mystic, of course), too.

    It did and thanks, now I need to get it set to play along iwth
    Mystic.

    No worries, and glad it helped!

    Golded plays very nice with Mystic. You just have to remember it's an external program that's sharing the JAM message bases. Some things may have to be done manually as Mystic isn't going to automatically detect that you posted a message in Golded.
    Regards,
    Nick

    ... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
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    * Origin: The Pharcyde ~ telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin)
    (21:1/200)

    David


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