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to: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
from: JOACIM MELIN
date: 2016-03-05 09:29:00
subject: Re: Attempt to trigger a

 MvdV> Hello Joacim,

 MvdV> On Friday March 04 2016 08:13, you wrote to me:

 JM>> It is possible.  :)

 MvdV> So do it  ;-)

 JM>> Amibinkd works almost exactly as it does on Linux, for example. What I
 JM>> need help with is converting 46:1/100 to hexadeciamal so I can trigger
 JM>> the pull from that host. I'm supposed to create a file in the outbound
 JM>> directory named NNNNMMMM.ilo where NNNN is the net hex number and MMMM
 JM>> is the hex node number.  If I convert 461100 (I assume the colon and
 JM>> dash is not supposed to be part of it) I get 34 36 31 30 30.

 MvdV> Convert 1 to hex  -->  0001
 MvdV> Convert 100 to hex --> 64

 MvdV> Name of the file 00010064.

 MvdV> The zone number is not in the name of the file, but in the name of
 MvdV> the directory. Convert 46 to hex --> 2E

 MvdV> Name of directory  OUTBOUND.02E

 MvdV> You can do that manually, but you can also do it by typing:

 MvdV>  binkd -nP46:1/100 binkd.cfg.

 MvdV> That will create an empty file named 00010064.dlo in OUTBOUND.02E


 MvdV> Cheers, Michiel

Thank you so much. This was exactly what I was looking for. 

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