I had to do a copy of all my current data for the BBS
to backup directories, then did a fresh install of
Synchronet. Then, I moved the backup data to the
appropriate directories, and the doors are all working
again.

Concerning REP packets, with the install of SBBS, I
found the old docs on how to put PKZIP/PKUNZIP in, and
the REP packets are now being processed.

The only issue now is that every so often, some
incoming packets are marked as "bad". I may have to
see if the hubs can send me "uncompressed packets".

Daryl

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Re: Issues Fixed
By: Daryl Stout to All on Sun Jun 07 2020 12:51 pm

I had to do a copy of all my current data for the BBS
to backup directories, then did a fresh install of
Synchronet. Then, I moved the backup data to the
appropriate directories, and the doors are all working
again.

Concerning REP packets, with the install of SBBS, I
found the old docs on how to put PKZIP/PKUNZIP in, and
the REP packets are now being processed.

You don't want to use the 16-bit versions of PKZIP/UNZIP. The 32-bit version (e.g. 2.50) for Windows would be *okay* to use, if setup correctly, but the preferred setup is to use Info-ZIP, as I've said before.

The only issue now is that every so often, some
incoming packets are marked as "bad". I may have to
see if the hubs can send me "uncompressed packets".

Are we talking about FidoNet or QWK?

digital man

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Rob,

You don't want to use the 16-bit versions of PKZIP/UNZIP. The 32-bit version (e.g. 2.50) for Windows would be *okay* to use, if setup correctly, but the preferred setup is to use Info-ZIP, as I've said before.

OK, I will change that.

The only issue now is that every so often, some
incoming packets are marked as "bad". I may have to
see if the hubs can send me "uncompressed packets".

Are we talking about FidoNet or QWK?

Unfortunately, both.

Daryl

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Re: Re: Issues Fixed
By: Daryl Stout to Digital Man on Mon Jun 08 2020 09:25 am

The only issue now is that every so often, some
incoming packets are marked as "bad". I may have to
see if the hubs can send me "uncompressed packets".

Are we talking about FidoNet or QWK?

Unfortunately, both.

There is no option for uncompressed QWK packets.

digital man

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Synchronet added Baja/PCMS support with v2.00a (1994).
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Rob,

There is no option for uncompressed QWK packets.

I'll either just do it with FTN, or just have to ignore those.

Daryl

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Re: Re: Issues Fixed
By: Daryl Stout to Digital Man on Tue Jun 09 2020 08:24:00

There is no option for uncompressed QWK packets.

I'll either just do it with FTN, or just have to ignore those.

also check your logs for the QNET events... they'll tell you why the QWK is being renamed to .bad...


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also check your logs for the QNET events... they'll tell you why the
QWK is being renamed to .bad...

Thanks for the tip.

On another note, I downloaded the latest version of SyncTerm from the Sourceforge website, but the prompt is still a bit skewed on the left.
However, when I access it via FTelnet from the website interface,
everything's normal. Nothing else is skewed with the display, so I can
live with it.

Daryl

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Re: Re: Issues Fixed
By: Daryl Stout to Digital Man on Tue Jun 09 2020 08:24 am

Rob,

There is no option for uncompressed QWK packets.

I'll either just do it with FTN, or just have to ignore those.

Or fix the issue?

digital man

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Rob,

There is no option for uncompressed QWK packets.

I'll either just do it with FTN, or just have to ignore those.

Or fix the issue?

That'll have to be at the hubs, to get me uncompressed FTN PKTs.
I saw your note (correct) that you can't get uncompressed QWK packets.

Daryl

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Re: Re: Issues Fixed
By: Daryl Stout to Digital Man on Thu Jun 11 2020 09:27:00

I'll either just do it with FTN, or just have to ignore those.

Or fix the issue?

That'll have to be at the hubs, to get me uncompressed FTN PKTs.

or you could simply send an areafix %HELP message to them and look at the response to see if they have something like a

%COMPRESSION

option... if they have such and it supports "NONE", then send another areafix message with

%COMPRESSION NONE

to turn off archiving of the PKTs...


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