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    From Rants@1:267/331 to All on Thu Jun 16 16:47:48 2022
    Has anyone had a problem using both and connecting to a mystic BBS via blinkp?

    I seem to be having a problem when I send commands to Area & FixFix. When I

    do it gives me back line for line Area not found. BTW this is when sending messages to AreFix and FileFix 2 different blinkp feeds i have, works fine with
    another XPress board I'm moving feeds between.







    Any help would be great. Thanks.
    --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v7.0
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  • From Benny Pedersen@2:230/0 to Rants on Fri Jun 17 13:13:06 2022
    Hello Rants!

    16 Jun 2022 16:47, Rants wrote to All:

    Has anyone had a problem using both and connecting to a mystic BBS via blinkp?

    ?

    I seem to be having a problem when I send commands to Area & FixFix.
    When I do it gives me back line for line Area not found.

    have irex areafix & filefix ?, imho no


    BTW this is when sending messages to AreFix and FileFix 2 different blinkp feeds i have, works
    fine with another XPress board I'm moving feeds between.

    not possible to help if you dont ask correct qeustions

    Any help would be great. Thanks.

    sure

    is it possible to use REAL NAMES not just Rants ?


    Regards Benny

    ... too late to die young :)

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  • From John Gonzales@1:267/331 to Benny Pedersen on Fri Jun 17 09:58:04 2022
    is it possible to use REAL NAMES not just Rants ?

    Sure, sorry about that had the wrong setting on the message area.
    To rephrase the question. I am currently using Wildcat! Winserver with
    Platinum Xpress as well as running Internet Rex 2.31 to connect to
    various nets. Any of my nets that use VMODEM I have no problem with
    however the nets that I use BlinkP for (Intrnet Rex) I am unable to do
    any areafix or filefix requests from. As an example below is what I am
    getting returned with valid commands.

    INTL 1:267/331 1:267/TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46
    Your AREAFIX request has been processed

    CommandMSGID: [1:267/331 FFF1CDB7]
    Result: Unknown echo area

    CommandTZUTC: [-0400]
    Result: Unknown echo area

    Command:
    %LIST
    Result: Unknown echo area

    Command:
    --- [PLATINUM XPRESS/WIN/WINSERVER V7.0]
    Result: Unknown echo area

    Command:

    Result: Unknown echo area:
    :


    Maybe that will better explain my problem.
    Thank you,
    John Gonzales
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  • From Benny Pedersen@2:230/0 to John Gonzales on Fri Jun 17 14:17:58 2022
    Hello John!

    17 Jun 2022 09:58, John Gonzales wrote to Benny Pedersen:

    INTL 1:267/331 1:267/TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46
    Your AREAFIX request has been processed

    join MYSTIC echomail, and ask there, its not a IREX problem or question


    Regards Benny

    ... too late to die young :)

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    * Origin: gopher://fido.junc.eu/ (2:230/0)
  • From John Gonzales@1:267/331 to Benny Pedersen on Fri Jun 17 10:35:26 2022
    join MYSTIC echomail, and ask there, its not a IREX problem or question

    Thanks for the help


    John
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  • From Warp 4@1:116/17 to John Gonzales on Tue Jul 5 17:25:23 2022
    On 17 Jun 2022, John Gonzales said the following...

    Sure, sorry about that had the wrong setting on the message area.
    To rephrase the question. I am currently using Wildcat! Winserver with Platinum Xpress as well as running Internet Rex 2.31 to connect to
    various nets. Any of my nets that use VMODEM I have no problem with

    First issue. You need to downgrade to v2.29 of Internet Rex. And VMODEM and NetSerial are two different things as there is a product that has been out longer than NetSerial called SIO for OS/2 that has a VMODEM.EXE virtual modem driver that listens on port 23 and 3141 (for 8-bit vmodem to vmodem telnet connections).

    however the nets that I use BlinkP for (Intrnet Rex) I am unable to do
    any areafix or filefix requests from. As an example below is what I am getting returned with valid commands.


    Again, try switching to Internet Rex to see if that helps. And what are you using to enter your filefix and areafix requests? The BBS itself or pxtools.exe?

    ... Everyone is entitled to my opinion!

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  • From John Gonzales@1:267/331 to Warp 4 on Tue Jul 5 23:03:34 2022
    On 7/5/2022 5:30 PM, Warp 4 wrote to John Gonzales:

    First issue. You need to downgrade to v2.29 of Internet Rex. And VMODEM and
    NetSerial are two different things as there is a product that has been out longer than NetSerial called SIO for OS/2 that has a VMODEM.EXE virtual modem
    driver that listens on port 23 and 3141 (for 8-bit vmodem to vmodem telnet connections).


    I can try the downgrade. Will I need to re-configure or will it allow me to just take the
    existing config.


    Again, try switching to Internet Rex to see if that helps. And what are you using to enter your filefix and areafix requests? The BBS itself or pxtools.exe?

    And I was using the BBS itself, but once I started using PXTools the problem went away. So
    it doesn't look like its IREX but if you think downgrading it does anything I will try that, but
    again as of now everything seems to be working.

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