• Trouble with new setup

    From Rick Smith@1:105/81 to All on Sun Nov 12 17:33:32 2023
    Hello All!

    I have a couple of questions that I could either not find answers to online or in other echos. I know areasep works well my question is if I have fidonet area F and MicroNet area M can golded display area M ahead of area F (or group I suppose). Second, I am using fastecho with proboard, if I write a message on proboard fastecho sees it and packs it for outbound. If I write the message using my golded fastecho does not see it and pack it, however that message can be viewed on the BBS? I must have something wrong wondering if anything pops to mind with anyone?

    AREAFILE FastEcho C:\FE\

    Thats what I have in golded.cfg

    Regards,

    Rick

    ... BBSing is like sex...except not wanting to GET OFF!!!
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  • From Nil Alexandrov@1:16/101 to Rick Smith on Sun Nov 12 21:51:44 2023
    Hello, Rick!

    Sunday November 12 2023 17:33, from Rick Smith -> All, in URL @OFGHIUrl:

    I have fidonet area F and MicroNet area M can golded display area M
    ahead of area F (or group I suppose).

    From the GoldED Reference Manual, see below

    ===Begin===
    AREALISTSORT <sortspec> (FYTUE)

    This keyword defines how the area list should be sorted. You can
    override the default setting from the commandline with the -S
    switch.

    The <sortspec> can be composed of the following types:

    A Sort by aka.
    B Sort by board number.
    D Sort by description.
    E Sort by echoid.
    F Sorts all "fuzzy search" matches first.
    G Sort by group (if any).
    M Sorts all marked areas first.
    O Sort by original order.
    P Sort by personal mail.
    T Sort by type (in the order net, echo, local).
    U Sort by unread messages (try it!).
    X Sort by msgbase type.
    Y Sorts all areas with "new" mail first.
    Z Sort by msgbase path.
    - Descending sort (largest first).
    + Ascending sort (smallest first) (default).

    In practice 'M' and 'Y' will usually give the same result, because
    GoldED automatically marks scanned areas if they contain new mail.

    Example:

    AREALISTSORT T-U+E

    This sorts ascending by Type, descending by Unread (that is, areas
    with the most unread messages comes first) and ascending by Echoid
    (in case two areas have the same number of unread msgs).

    By default no sorting is done, and all areas are listed in the
    order they were found (unless sorting was specified with an
    AREAFILE keyword). However, the configuration examples all make
    use of the Unread sorting type. This is a very useful way of
    sorting areas, because it keeps all the areas with mail together.

    Personally I now sort my areas like this: "AREALISTSORT FYTUE".
    This puts all areas with new mail first, then sorts these into
    type (net/echo/local), then into number of new msgs and finally
    into echoid. The 'F' at the start enables fuzzy match sorting,
    which is very handy when looking for an echoid containing a
    particular word. Let's say I want a list of all GOLDED echoes. I
    can now simply type "GOLDED" and then the arealist automatically
    sorts itself so that all echoes with an echoid containing "GOLDED"
    comes first :-)

    The 'X' sort type sorts areas according to msgbase type, in the
    following order:

    Hudson
    Goldbase
    JAM
    Squish
    OPUS *.MSG
    FTS-1 *.MSG
    Ezycom
    PCBoard

    The 'X' and 'Z' sort types were implemented for internal use, to
    optimize area scanning speed. When scanning areas, GoldED starts
    by sorting the arealist using the sortspec defined with the
    AREASCANSORT keyword.
    ===End===

    Second, I am using fastecho with proboard, if I write a message on proboard fastecho sees it and packs it for outbound. If I write the message using my golded fastecho does not see it and pack it, however
    that message can be viewed on the BBS? I must have something wrong wondering if anything pops to mind with anyone?

    You have not mentioned whether a message written on proboard will be seen by on BBS.
    Fastecho will pack it for outbound, means subscribed links, if it sees new messages in configured area. If proboard and fastecho are configured with the same area location then the last will pack new messages. If you write a message and fastecho will not pack it then it means that they point to a different area location or there are no links to pack on.

    Best Regards, Nil
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    * Origin: -=NIL BBS=- (1:16/101)
  • From Nicholas Boel@1:154/10 to Rick Smith on Mon Nov 13 16:55:12 2023
    Hello Rick,

    On Sunday November 12 2023 17:33, you wrote to All:

    I have a couple of questions that I could either not find answers to online or in other echos. I know areasep works well my question is if
    I have fidonet area F and MicroNet area M can golded display area M
    ahead of area F (or group I suppose). Second, I am using fastecho
    with proboard, if I write a message on proboard fastecho sees it and
    packs it for outbound. If I write the message using my golded
    fastecho does not see it and pack it, however that message can be
    viewed on the BBS? I must have something wrong wondering if anything
    pops to mind with anyone?

    When you post a message in Proboard, what does Proboard do? Do you have Proboard setup to create a semaphore for Fastecho to run after a message is posted or when you logoff the BBS?

    If so, you have to do the same thing with Golded.

    AREAFILE FastEcho C:\FE\

    This option is only pointing golded to the message areas setup in Fastecho.

    You still need to have something that runs Fastecho to scan out mail. Which I'm assuming you're doing with Proboard, but not with Golded.

    Regards,
    Nick

    ... "Take my advice, I don't use it anyway."
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