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  • Finally upgraded to 1.0.6.8

    From Ken Bowley@1:114/485 to All on Mon Sep 26 16:52:04 2016
    Hello everybody!

    I finally ported my personal changes to MBSE 1.0.6.8 and now to let things run for a bit to see if I managed to introduce any bugs in the process. It looks like my message feeds are still working, so at least I didn't break that part.

    Ken


    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20130515 - MBSE BBS - Debian GNU/Linux
    * Origin: The Realm of Darkness |(623)907-2858| bbs.trod.org (1:114/485)
  • From Ken Bowley@1:114/485 to Ken Bowley on Mon Sep 26 21:13:27 2016
    So far everything looks like it's working. The main part of my personal changes are to change the date format from DD-MM-YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD just
    about everywhere. Of course I had to fix every compiler warning I came
    across to satisfy my techie OCD issues.

    Ken Bowley wrote to All:

    Hello everybody!

    I finally ported my personal changes to MBSE 1.0.6.8 and now to let things

    run for a bit to see if I managed to introduce any bugs in the process. It looks like my message feeds are still working, so at least I didn't break that part.

    Ken



    Ken...
    kbowley@bbs.trod.org

    --- MBSE BBS v1.0.6.8-ksb (GNU/Linux-i38
    * Origin: The Realm of Darkness |(623)907-2858| bbs.trod.org (1:114/485)
  • From Vince Coen@2:250/1 to Ken Bowley on Tue Sep 27 17:16:49 2016
    Hello Ken!

    Monday September 26 2016 21:13, you wrote to you:

    So far everything looks like it's working. The main part of my
    personal changes are to change the date format from DD-MM-YYYY to
    YYYY-MM-DD just about everywhere. Of course I had to fix every
    compiler warning I came across to satisfy my techie OCD issues.

    Ken Bowley wrote to All:

    Doesn't mbse support the local settings for lang, date/time etc ?

    As it seems to here in the UK under Mageia v5 Linux and that includes Golded.

    Vince

    --- Mageia Linux v5/Mbse v1.0.6/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.501-b20150715
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK (2:250/1)
  • From Ken Bowley@1:114/485 to Vince Coen on Tue Sep 27 10:27:17 2016
    Vince Coen wrote to Ken Bowley:
    Hello Ken!

    Monday September 26 2016 21:13, you wrote to you:

    So far everything looks like it's working. The main part of my
    personal changes are to change the date format from DD-MM-YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD just about everywhere. Of course I had to fix every
    compiler warning I came across to satisfy my techie OCD issues.

    Doesn't mbse support the local settings for lang, date/time etc ?

    As it seems to here in the UK under Mageia v5 Linux and that includes Golded.

    All the date formats in MBSE are hard coded, even in the language files.

    I've contemplated looking at how to get it to support multiple formats, but since I'm a die-hard ISO format person, I just made the minimal code changes
    to hard code it to the format I prefer to use.
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK (2:250/1)

    Ken...
    kbowley@bbs.trod.org

    --- MBSE BBS v1.0.6.8-ksb (GNU/Linux-i38
    * Origin: The Realm of Darkness |(623)907-2858| bbs.trod.org (1:114/485)
  • From Ken Bowley@1:114/485 to Ken Bowley on Tue Sep 27 11:13:38 2016
    Ken Bowley wrote to Vince Coen:

    --- MBSE BBS v1.0.6.8-ksb (GNU/Linux-i38

    Just noticed that the tear line was limited to 41 characters so I bumped
    that one to 51 just to be safe.
    So far everything looks like it's working. The main part of my

    Ken...
    kbowley@bbs.trod.org

    --- MBSE BBS v1.0.6.8-ksb (GNU/Linux-i386)
    * Origin: The Realm of Darkness |(623)907-2858| bbs.trod.org (1:114/485)
  • From Andrew Leary@1:320/219 to Ken Bowley on Tue Sep 27 17:05:26 2016
    Hello Ken!

    26 Sep 16 21:13, you wrote to you:

    So far everything looks like it's working. The main part of my
    personal changes are to change the date format from DD-MM-YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD just about everywhere. Of course I had to fix every
    compiler warning I came across to satisfy my techie OCD issues.

    I've been meaning to look into some of those as well, once I finish fixing Binkp NR mode. Would you mind sending me your changes to possibly integrate them with the main source tree?

    Andrew

    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20160322
    * Origin: Phoenix BBS * phoenix.bnbbbs.net (1:320/219)
  • From Ken Bowley@1:114/485 to Andrew Leary on Tue Sep 27 21:21:29 2016

    Hello Andrew!

    27 Sep 16 17:05, you wrote to me:

    So far everything looks like it's working. The main part of my
    personal changes are to change the date format from DD-MM-YYYY to
    YYYY-MM-DD just about everywhere. Of course I had to fix every
    compiler warning I came across to satisfy my techie OCD issues.

    I've been meaning to look into some of those as well, once I finish
    fixing Binkp NR mode. Would you mind sending me your changes to
    possibly integrate them with the main source tree?

    I attempted to send you an email the other day to the address listed in the AUTHORS file. I would be happy to send the changes I made to clean up the compiler warnings. I was doing the work on a Debian sid system, and the compiler has some nice warnings if things are indented different then what the code is really doing.

    Ken

    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20160827 - MBSE BBS - Debian GNU/Linux
    * Origin: The Realm of Darkness |(623)907-2858| bbs.trod.org (1:114/485)
  • From Andrew Leary@1:320/219 to Ken Bowley on Wed Sep 28 13:02:47 2016
    Hello Ken!

    27 Sep 16 21:21, you wrote to me:

    I attempted to send you an email the other day to the address listed
    in the AUTHORS file. I would be happy to send the changes I made to
    clean up the compiler warnings. I was doing the work on a Debian sid system, and the compiler has some nice warnings if things are indented different then what the code is really doing.

    I found your email in my spam folder and replied. You bring up a good point about the date formats, too. It should probably be configurable on a per user basis. All that would be required is add a date format specifier byte to the user record, and then update the code that displays dates to use the user's chosen format. Since this will mean a quite a bit of coding and debugging throughout the BBS programs, that project will probably not start until after 1.0.7 is released (which should be fairly soon if I can finish the NR mode fixes I'm working on.)

    Andrew

    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20160322
    * Origin: Phoenix BBS * phoenix.bnbbbs.net (1:320/219)
  • From Ken Bowley@1:114/485 to Andrew Leary on Wed Sep 28 11:25:26 2016

    Hello Andrew!

    28 Sep 16 13:02, you wrote to me:

    I attempted to send you an email the other day to the address
    listed in the AUTHORS file. I would be happy to send the changes
    I made to clean up the compiler warnings. I was doing the work
    on a Debian sid system, and the compiler has some nice warnings
    if things are indented different then what the code is really
    doing.

    I found your email in my spam folder and replied. You bring up a good point about the date formats, too. It should probably be configurable
    on a per user basis. All that would be required is add a date format specifier byte to the user record, and then update the code that
    displays dates to use the user's chosen format. Since this will mean
    a quite a bit of coding and debugging throughout the BBS programs,
    that project will probably not start until after 1.0.7 is released
    (which should be fairly soon if I can finish the NR mode fixes I'm
    working on.)

    There are user date formats, and then sysop orientated date formats, so it will be somewhat involved. Luckily I can look at my local diffs and see the various places that I've found so far. I think we could get away with a system default date option that would also be used for html/index creation and newuser signup, and then a user option that can control input/display once they are registered.

    Ken

    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20160827 - MBSE BBS - Debian GNU/Linux
    * Origin: The Realm of Darkness |(623)907-2858| bbs.trod.org (1:114/485)
  • From Shawn Highfield@1:229/452 to Andrew Leary on Thu Sep 29 11:03:00 2016
    Quoting Andrew Leary to Ken Bowley <=-

    project will probably not start until after 1.0.7 is released (which should be fairly soon if I can finish the NR mode fixes I'm working

    I'm working on a setup on my pi in the background. Glad to see people
    are keeping mbse updated. ;)

    Shawn

    ... Kettle, plug, fridge, milk, coffee. Yawn.

    --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F
    * Origin: Tiny's BBS - Oshawa, ON, CA - http://tinysbbs.com (1:229/452)
  • From Vince Coen@2:250/1 to Ken Bowley on Sun Oct 2 23:40:03 2016
    Hello Ken!

    Tuesday September 27 2016 10:27, you wrote to me:

    Vince Coen wrote to Ken Bowley:
    Hello Ken!

    Monday September 26 2016 21:13, you wrote to you:

    So far everything looks like it's working. The main part of my
    personal changes are to change the date format from DD-MM-YYYY
    to
    YYYY-MM-DD just about everywhere. Of course I had to fix every
    compiler warning I came across to satisfy my techie OCD issues.

    Doesn't mbse support the local settings for lang, date/time etc ?

    As it seems to here in the UK under Mageia v5 Linux and that
    includes Golded.

    All the date formats in MBSE are hard coded, even in the language
    files.

    I've contemplated looking at how to get it to support multiple
    formats, but since I'm a die-hard ISO format person, I just made the
    minimal code changes to hard code it to the format I prefer to use.
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK (2:250/1)

    Sound like we need to look into that as I would not think that it would be too difficult.


    Hmm, now as a programmer I really should NOT says that !

    Does depend little on the state of the data file/s used to hold that type of info.


    Vince

    --- Mageia Linux v5/Mbse v1.0.6/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.501-b20150715
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK (2:250/1)