Re: SBBS 3.18B
By: Zazz to Digital Man on Wed Sep 30 2020 05:45 pm
Re: SBBS 3.18B
By: Digital Man to Zazz on Mon Sep 28 2020 18:14:11
My first suggestion would be to not do a "clean fresh install" then. The whole point of doing a fresh install is not have (start with) any configuration or data, but it sounds like you want to retain at least some of your existing configuration / data. So it would be better (less work, less risk) to just update/upgrade your existing installation.
If you really must/want to do a clean install, then you'd want to copy over your old text/* files and some of your ctrl/*.cnf files (e.g. file.cnf, for the file area configuration, msgs.cnf for the message area configuration). But copying some .cnf files and not others may present problems. Try it and see. <shrug>
Thanks, I'll just do the upgrade.
Side note. I have one fidonet message area that (classic computer) that always starts me a message 1 even though I go through to end and it always sets me back to the first message. I think somehow it is corrupted, just guessing, is there a util to check message bases?
Yes:
http://wiki.synchro.net/util:chksmb
When you say "always start me a message 1", I don't know if you're referring to a new message scan or what. But in any case, your pointer (both last read and new-message pointers) are stored in data/user/<usernum>.subs (e.g. 0001.subs).
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