Re: pktdump windows build
  By: Ragnarok to DOVE-Net.Synchronet_Discussion on Thu Apr 23 2020 03:25 am

 > I working on fido gateway to sbbs => worldgroup via old MHS
 > i need to dump packet content as text plain file to make a MHS
 > compatible format and inject into wg server.
 >
 > i found pktdump and i think to replace my actual tools (python-ftn
 > tools), i gues that pkdump will show me all info that i need (then i
 > just need work to parse it)

FTN is not a great message format. If you're gating to Sychronet, it'd be a lot
easier to just use the JS object model (see nntpservice.js as an example).

 > I'm search for windows build of pktdump (not found in the nightly builds
 > zips)

ftp://vert.synchro.net/main/bbs/pktdump.exe

That's a build from 2016. Some features have been added since then. The latest
and greatest will be included in today's daily build (sbbs_dev.zip).

 > I never tried to build sbbs for windows before. Now I would like to try
 > but I did not find some instructions like the ones that exist for unix/linux
 >
 > Can somebody post some tips to start?

It's a lot easier to just download the binaries I build. But if you must know,
http://wiki.synchro.net/dev:source

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