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  • Re: All 902 Nodes

    From Wilfred van Velzen@39:150/200 to Dave Vandermeer on Thu Feb 7 12:51:37 2019
    Hi Dave,

    On 2019-02-06 18:01:43, you wrote to me:

    It's still sort of in Beta. (But working very stable here and at a
    node in Australia for a couple of years now) So it's not directly
    available. You need to compile it from source yourself (if your linux
    is to far removed from the kernel and libraries I'm using). And the
    configuration program hasn't been converted to linux yet. So you need
    a (virtual) windows to do the configuration. If you are still
    interested I'll give you the details. ;)

    I have a linux development box so I dont think dependencies will be an issue. It has a full -dev install on it and I have a windows machine
    for the config :)

    Ok, you can try the executables in these files:

    http://vlzn.nl/fmail/files/FMail-lnx32-2.1.0.17-Beta20170808.zip http://vlzn.nl/fmail/files/FMail-lnx32-2.1.0.18-Beta20170905.zip http://vlzn.nl/fmail/files/FTools-lnx32-static-2.1.0.17-Beta20170809.zip

    If these run without complaining, your good to go. Otherwise we have to go the compilation route, which first involves getting the source with git from sourceforge...

    https://sourceforge.net/p/fmail/code/ci/master/tree/

    Then you also need the codeblocks ide. If that's not available directly for your distribution, you can get it here:

    http://www.codeblocks.org/

    BTW: Maybe we should take this to netmail, or a more apropriate area. Since you
    are nolonger in fidonet FMAIL_HELP isn't an option, so maybe MAIL_AMY?

    Bye, Wilfred.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A42 2018/12/27 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: amynet 902 nc [binkp://idbbs.dlinkddns.com:24560] (39:150/200)
  • From Dave Vandermeer@39:902/0 to Wilfred van Velzen on Thu Feb 7 09:22:45 2019
    On 07 Feb 2019, Wilfred van Velzen said the following...

    Ok, you can try the executables in these files:


    Thanks.. I'm going to have to go the source code route.. I run a non-multilib Linux so only 64bit


    BTW: Maybe we should take this to netmail, or a more apropriate area. Since you are nolonger in fidonet FMAIL_HELP isn't an option, so maybe MAIL_AMY?


    Sounds like a plan.. I moved the post before replying :)

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A42 2018/12/27 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: amynet 902 nc [binkp://idbbs.dlinkddns.com:24560] (39:902/0)
  • From Wilfred van Velzen@39:150/200 to Dave Vandermeer on Thu Feb 7 15:45:15 2019
    Hi Dave,

    On 2019-02-07 09:22:45, you wrote to me:

    Thanks.. I'm going to have to go the source code route.. I run a non-multilib Linux so only 64bit

    You could try the executables I'm using. They are 64 bit. But compiling is better, because you can optimize for your system/processor.

    BTW: Maybe we should take this to netmail, or a more apropriate area.
    Since you are nolonger in fidonet FMAIL_HELP isn't an option, so
    maybe MAIL_AMY?

    Sounds like a plan.. I moved the post before replying :)

    I noticed my message appeared here too... ;)

    Bye, Wilfred.

    --- FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815
    * Origin: FMail development HQ (39:150/200)
  • From Dave Vandermeer@39:902/0 to Wilfred van Velzen on Thu Feb 7 13:30:39 2019
    On 07 Feb 2019, Wilfred van Velzen said the following...

    You could try the executables I'm using. They are 64 bit. But compiling
    is better, because you can optimize for your system/processor.


    dave@asus-k56cm ~/Downloads/fmail-lnx $ ls -l
    total 1040
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 dave dave 214220 Sep 5 2017 fmail
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 dave dave 845948 Aug 9 2017 ftools

    dave@asus-k56cm ~/Downloads/fmail-lnx $ ./ftools FTools-lnx32-2.1.0.17-Beta20170809 - The Fast Message Base Utility
    Copyright (C) 1991-2017 by FMail Developers - All rights reserved

    Can't read fmail.cfg

    Active: 0.0013 sec.

    dave@asus-k56cm ~/Downloads/fmail-lnx $ ./fmail
    bash: ./fmail: No such file or directory

    ---
    ftools runs but fmail doesn't (the binary release).. I grabbed the source but codeblocks is saying "FMail" does not support the current platform.
    Skipping.. when I try to build the project. Same with FTools in C::B

    So I can't build it on a pure 64-bit system? I dont have any 32bit libs installed and to do so would require me to have to build a 32bit cross
    platform environment .. bummer

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A42 2018/12/27 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: amynet 902 nc [binkp://idbbs.dlinkddns.com:24560] (39:902/0)
  • From Wilfred van Velzen@39:150/200 to Dave Vandermeer on Thu Feb 7 19:36:46 2019
    Hi Dave,

    On 2019-02-07 13:30:39, you wrote to me:

    You could try the executables I'm using. They are 64 bit. But
    compiling is better, because you can optimize for your
    system/processor.

    dave@asus-k56cm ~/Downloads/fmail-lnx $ ls -l
    total 1040
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 dave dave 214220 Sep 5 2017 fmail
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 dave dave 845948 Aug 9 2017 ftools

    dave@asus-k56cm ~/Downloads/fmail-lnx $ ./ftools FTools-lnx32-2.1.0.17-Beta20170809 - The Fast Message Base Utility Copyright (C) 1991-2017 by FMail Developers - All rights reserved

    Can't read fmail.cfg

    Active: 0.0013 sec.

    dave@asus-k56cm ~/Downloads/fmail-lnx $ ./fmail
    bash: ./fmail: No such file or directory

    That's strange...

    ftools runs but fmail doesn't (the binary release)..

    Strange.

    I grabbed the source but codeblocks is saying "FMail" does not support
    the current platform. Skipping.. when I try to build the project. Same with FTools in C::B

    Did you switch to the linux branch with git?

    So I can't build it on a pure 64-bit system? I dont have any 32bit
    libs installed and to do so would require me to have to build a 32bit cross platform environment .. bummer

    I'm building and using it on a 64 bit linux system, without 32 bit dependencies afaik...

    Bye, Wilfred.

    --- FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815
    * Origin: FMail development HQ (39:150/200)
  • From Dave Vandermeer@39:902/510 to Wilfred van Velzen on Wed Feb 20 01:27:31 2019

    I'm building and using it on a 64 bit linux system, without 32 bit dependencies
    afaik...

    Bye, Wilfred.

    It's weird.. I installed a different 64bit distro and both the FMail and
    FTools executables worked.

    I'm using dosbox to setup the config .. but I'm noticing when I enter a
    unix path of say /ele/mail for netmail it sets it as \ele\mail .. when I
    read the config with the linux tools will it translate the paths back to
    / ?


    --- MagickaBBS v0.12alpha (Linux/x86_64)
    * Origin: Internal Dimension [idbbs.dlinkddns.com:2023] (39:902/510)
  • From Wilfred van Velzen@39:150/200 to Dave Vandermeer on Fri Feb 22 11:14:42 2019
    Hi Dave,

    On 2019-02-20 01:27:31, you wrote to me:

    It's weird.. I installed a different 64bit distro and both the FMail
    and FTools executables worked.

    Compiled by yourself?

    I'm using dosbox to setup the config .. but I'm noticing when I enter
    a unix path of say /ele/mail for netmail it sets it as \ele\mail ..
    when I read the config with the linux tools will it translate the
    paths back to / ?

    FConfig checks the paths you enter, and sometimes they are even created if they don't exist. So the paths you enter need to be real existing dos compatible paths. The way I solved that on my virtual XP is, I created a "network" mapping/drive-letter that points to my fidonet directory on the linux side. So N:\ on XP is /home/fido/ on the linux side of the system.

    So all the paths I set in FConfig start with N:\...

    The linux tools of course need to convert these back to linux compatible paths. This is handled by an environment variable you set before starting one of the tools. On my system this is:

    export FMAIL_REPLACE_DRIVE=/home/fido

    The conversion from \ to / is done automatically.


    Bye, Wilfred.

    --- FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815
    * Origin: FMail development HQ (39:150/200)