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  • Activating A Message Area

    From Daryl Stout@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Saturday, August 22, 2020 20:21:00
    Rob,

    After setting a message area in a message board under
    SCFG, is there a command line command that can be done,
    without having to logon to the BBS to post a message to
    activate the area??

    What does "activate" mean in this context?

    Does a message need to be posted in the area before any
    other posts (autopost or otherwise) are done in that area??

    "files are set for the correct day and time" - what are you talking
    about?

    I found the problem...a gray blonde moment on my part. I had two
    words GOTO EXIT on the command line, and it was exiting before it
    got to the jsexec command. :P

    Daryl

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Daryl Stout on Saturday, August 22, 2020 22:17:18
    Re: Activating A Message Area
    By: Daryl Stout to Digital Man on Sat Aug 22 2020 08:21 pm

    Rob,

    After setting a message area in a message board under
    SCFG, is there a command line command that can be done,
    without having to logon to the BBS to post a message to
    activate the area??

    What does "activate" mean in this context?

    Does a message need to be posted in the area before any
    other posts (autopost or otherwise) are done in that area??

    Shouldn't, but there have been times when some programs or utilities (e.g. smbutil) didn't behave well when the message base files were not already created (e.g. by SCFG).

    digital man

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