Michael Dukelsky wrote:

MD> I added hptutil to makefiles. Now you can build it using build.sh
MD> or build_rpm scripts. Nothing was changed in hptutil program, so
MD> all its bugs are safe and sound. :)

:)

MD> I tested the build only on Linux, since I have no possibility to
MD> test it on other operating systems at the moment. Please test it on
MD> your OS.

Compiled in 64bit ubuntu, all the bugs are there indeed :(

========================================================================
hptutil/lnx 1.9 2023-09-28

Purge areas begin
EchoArea (null) is JAM ... 5215965-27=1, Done
EchoArea (null) is JAM ... 5215965-22=2, Done
EchoArea (null) is JAM ... 5215965-27=3, Done
EchoArea (null) is JAM ... 5215965-25=4, Done
EchoArea (null) is JAM ... 5215965-31=5, Done
EchoArea (null) is JAM ... 5215965-27=6, Done
EchoArea (null) is JAM ... 5215965-25=7, Done
EchoArea (null) is JAM ... 5215965-26=8, Done
EchoArea (null) is JAM ... 5215965-25=9, Done
EchoArea (null) is JAM ... 5215965-23=10, Done
EchoArea (null) is JAM ... 13020896-13017552=11, Done
EchoArea (null) is JAM ... 5215965-25=12, Done
EchoArea (null) is JAM ... 5215965-32=13, Done
EchoArea (null) is Squish ... 13020800-13017552=14, Done
EchoArea (null) is Squish ... 13048000-13017552=15, Done
EchoArea (null) is Squish ... 13020896-13017552=16, Done
EchoArea (null) is Squish ... 13020800-13017552=17, Done
EchoArea (null) is Squish ... 13048000-13017552=18, Done
EchoArea (null) is Squish ... 13020896-13017552=19, Done
EchoArea (null) is Squish ... 13020800-13017552=20, Done
EchoArea (null) is JAM ... 5215965-25=21, Done
EchoArea (null) is JAM ... 5215965-20=22, Done
EchoArea (null) is Squish ... 13048000-13017552=23, Done
EchoArea (null) is Squish ... 13020896-13017552=24, Done
EchoArea (null) is JAM ... 13020800-13017552=25, Done
EchoArea (null) is Squish ... 13048000-13017552=26, Done
NetArea (null) is Squish ... 13020896-13017552=0, Done
NetArea (null) is JAM ... 13020800-13017552=288, Done
Purge areas end
Total old msgs:13020464 Total purged:13015168 Total new
msgs:140728793532456
========================================================================

Then I compiled in 32bit ubuntu and everything works fine :

========================================================================
hptutil/lnx 1.9 2023-09-28

Purge areas begin
EchoArea aftershock is JAM ... 5-0=5, Done
EchoArea binkd is JAM ... 18-0=18, Done
EchoArea enet.sysop is JAM ... 14-0=14, Done
EchoArea fidonews is JAM ... 47-0=47, Done
EchoArea fidosoft.husky is JAM ... 38-0=38, Done
EchoArea fido_sysop is JAM ... 3-0=3, Done
EchoArea fidotest is JAM ... 13-0=13, Done
EchoArea fidotestx is JAM ... 13-0=13, Done
EchoArea fn_sysop is JAM ... 4-0=4, Done
EchoArea golded is JAM ... 8-0=8, Done
EchoArea ipv6 is JAM ... 1-0=1, Done
EchoArea jamnntpd is JAM ... 0-0=0, Done
EchoArea nodelist-police is JAM ... 46-0=46, Done
EchoArea rbb.test.1 is Squish ... 4-0=4, Done
EchoArea rbb.test.2 is Squish ... 4-0=4, Done
EchoArea rbb.test.3 is Squish ... 1-0=1, Done
EchoArea pintest-jam is JAM ... 4-0=4, Done
EchoArea pintest-squ is Squish ... 7-0=7, Done
NetArea netmail is Squish ... 1-0=1, Done
NetArea netmail-jam is JAM ... 1123-0=1123, Done
Purge areas end
Total old msgs:1382 Total purged:0 Total new msgs:1382
========================================================================

As I found out before, "hptutil pack" does not renumber squish base.
However it does renumber JAM.

'Tommi

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