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|    Dennis Katsonis to g00r00    |
|    Re: Bulletin MPL program    |
|    22 Jan 22 10:31:00    |
      TZUTC: 1100       MSGID: 96.fidomystic@3:633/384 26507919       REPLY: 1:129/215 967e896d       PID: Synchronet 3.17c-Win32 Feb 22 2020 MSC 1924       TID: SBBSecho 3.10-Win32 r3.151 Feb 22 2020 MSC 1924       CHRS: ASCII 1       -=> g00r00 wrote to Dennis Katsonis <=-               g0> @MSGID: <61EAECFE.92.fidomystic@bbs.mozysswamp.org>        g0> @REPLY: <61EA07E7.88.fidomystic@bbs.mozysswamp.org>        DK> Nothing appears in the error log about this. I upgraded from A46 to        DK> A47, and I think this is when this check stopped working.               g0> Did you follow the update instructions in upgrade.txt for A47? There        g0> is a step specifically for the default bulletin MPL program:               g0> - If you use the default bulletin system (bulletin.mps) then you        g0> should        g0> replace it with the newer one otherwise you will probably get an        g0> error        g0> trying to compile it:               g0> install extract bulletin.mps c:\mystic\themes\default\scripts               g0> Afterwards you will need to recompile it using "mplc -t"               DK> Is there a way to run this MPL program manually? If I can do that, I        DK> can see if there is an error or something blocking it from running. At        DK> least then, I can start troubleshooting.               g0> You can run MPL programs from the command line if you wanted to, but        g0> first lets confirm the above step. It looks like the upgrade        g0> instruction steps actually tell you to run "mplc -t" before the step to        g0> copy over the new bulletin.mps so that could explain it too.               g0> ... Reward for a job well done: More work               g0> --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/01/19 (Windows/64)        g0> * Origin: Sector 7 * Mystic WHQ (1:129/215)              Thanks, I did follow the instructions. With a bit more digging I was able to       change a line of code in bulletin.mps to get it to seem to work. See my later       follow up post. A bug in bulletin.mps perhaps?              ... MultiMail, the new multi-platform, multi-format offline reader!       --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52        * Origin: MS & RD BBS bbsweb.mozysswamp.org (3:633/384)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 90/1 105/81 106/201 114/705 120/340 123/120 131       SEEN-BY: 129/305 330 153/7715 154/10 218/840 220/70 226/17 30 100       SEEN-BY: 227/114 229/110 206 307 317 400 424 426 428 452 550 664 700       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 250/5 8 266/512 267/800 282/1038 292/854 298/25       SEEN-BY: 301/1 305/2 3 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 633/267       SEEN-BY: 633/280 281 384 410 412 416 509 640/1384 712/848 770/1 3       SEEN-BY: 770/100 340 772/210 220 230       PATH: 633/384 280 770/1 317/3 229/426           |
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