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echo: synchronet
to: DIAMOND DAVE
from: BILL MCGARRITY
date: 2017-03-05 00:40:00
subject: ECHOCFG question on 3.17

-=> Diamond Dave wrote to All on 03-04-17 18:33 <=-




 DD> I've been used to Synchronet using sbbsecho.cfg as the configuration
 DD> file and

 DD> using ECHOCFG to configure it. It appears that 3.17 now uses
 DD> sbbsecho.ini.



 DD> When I try to use ECHOCFG  to configure Fidonet, it complains that
 DD> sbbsecho.ini

 DD> in the \sbbs\ctrl directory isn't there. (BTW, I'm running everything
 DD> off the E

 DD> drive, if that makes  a difference).



 DD> Should the file already be there? Or should I need to create  it first?
 DD> Or

 DD> didit  not create when I did the installation and the upgade to the
 DD> latest dev

 DD> builds?



 DD> Just wondering what I'm doing wrong or what files I'm missing that I
 DD> need.



Incleded in the ../sbbs/exec folder there is sbbsecho_upgrade.js.  That will
convert your existing .cfg file to the newer .ini fild and rename the .cfg file
to .old.

at a ../sbbs/exec command prompt, type:

jsexec sbbsecho_upgrade.js

echocfg 3.17 will now recognize it.

Be well...




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Bill

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