Is there a version of squish for linux? I know there are DOS and OS/2 versions,
but was not sure about linux.

I did a web search and came up with something called squish that is not related to bbsing.

Thanks!
Mike
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Hello Mike,

Monday December 04 2023 13:17, you wrote to All:

Is there a version of squish for linux? I know there are DOS and OS/2 versions, but was not sure about linux.

There is Maximus 3.03, a partially-ported version of Max and Squish. However, I remember it was quite buggy. It's not stable and hasn't been touched in 22 years...did I mention it's only available in source code?

I have it on my website at: https://outpostbbs.net/files/max303s.zip

I did a web search and came up with something called squish that is
not related to bbsing.

That makes me sad. I have tried to make my website easy for search engines to index it.

Good luck with that code. Let me know if you get it to work.

-- Sean

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I did a web search and came up with something called squish that is
not related to bbsing.

That makes me sad. I have tried to make my website easy for search engines to >ndex it.

In fairness, the search I did may have left your website out because it was
for "squish linux ftn" (I think). I didn't search for maximus, for example.

Mike


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However, I remember it was quite buggy. It's not stable and hasn't
been touched in 22 years...did I mention it's only available in source
code?

You are correct. However I have seen epople in fidonet who have ported
it / got it working. (Sqush that is - I don't think anyone has a stable maximus compile for linux).

Isn't squish itself buggy though Sean? I can't remember.


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Hello Tiny,

Tuesday December 05 2023 06:40, you wrote to me:

Isn't squish itself buggy though Sean? I can't remember.

IIRC, the last I heard, Squish seemed to be working but Max had some serious issues like MEX not working properly. There's more but unfortunately that's all faded away over the past 20 years.

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IIRC, the last I heard, Squish seemed to be working but Max had some
serious issues like MEX not working properly. There's more but unfortunately that's all faded away over the past 20 years.

Yeah it's abeen a long time. I think honestly if I had the time to setup
a tosser other then built in ones, I'd go HPT and be done with it. Has
every possible feature. I'm just far too lazy and I have no issues with
postie.


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Hello Tiny,

Wednesday December 06 2023 07:04, you wrote to me:

Yeah it's abeen a long time. I think honestly if I had the time to
setup a tosser other then built in ones, I'd go HPT and be done with
it. Has every possible feature. I'm just far too lazy and I have no
issues with postie.

TBH, I am the point where if the BBS had a catastrophic failure, I'm not sure if I'd want to rebuild.

-- Sean

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Yeah it's abeen a long time. I think honestly if I had the time to
setup a tosser other then built in ones, I'd go HPT and be done with
it. Has every possible feature. I'm just far too lazy and I have no
issues with postie.

I decided to try using squish for dos and see what happens. I had issues
with postie. Messages would disappear from Talisman after I ran it. At
least I thought it was postie.

I mentioned in the FSX support echo but haven't heard back yet. By
disappear, I mean that Talisman counts them but cannot list them and I
cannot read them.

With squish they also disappear, but in a slighly different manner. They
seem to "reappear" once I run squish out. I set up a local test area
between this board and that one so I would not flood any network test areas with too much traffic.

That said, before I got to this happy medium, I had trouble in FSX Test
with the same disappear issue I had with postie if I received a message
from another BBS that wasn't running Synchronet or Magicka. They both came when I received messages from someone running Mystic and another someone running golded. Same two guys both times. Once their messages hit the
message base, no other locally posted messages show up, and squish will
stop finding the local messages too.

So I will be posting some new test messages in network test areas to see if
I get any incoming traffic from other nodes, then see which ones cause the issue (or if maybe I have finally figured it out).

Mike


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I mentioned in the FSX support echo but haven't heard back yet. By

Did my message on fsx not come through? In case it didn't could you
please send me a copy of the broken squish base (both the sqd and sqi
files) and a copy of your message area toml file.

when I received messages from someone running Mystic and another
someone
running golded. Same two guys both times. Once their messages hit
the
message base, no other locally posted messages show up, and squish
will
stop finding the local messages too.

That's interesting, if you are able can you catch a packet from them?
Might be too much trouble, but would be interesting to see what's
different about that packet.

Also, you're running on raspberry pi right? is it just running raspbian?
what version etc?

It's weird because I'm running Postie & Talisman and am not seeing any
issues, who is your fsx hub?

Also, my email is apamment AT positronicbrain DOT net, if you can zip
that stuff up and either send it to my email or upload it to my BBS that
would be great.

Andrew


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Mike Powell wrote to TINY <=-

I mentioned in the FSX support echo but haven't heard back yet. By disappear, I mean that Talisman counts them but cannot list them and I cannot read them.

Andrew is a member of Micronet also.

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apam wrote to Mike Powell <=-

Also, my email is apamment AT positronicbrain DOT net, if you can zip
that stuff up and either send it to my email or upload it to my BBS
that would be great.

FYI, Micronet netmail supports routede netamil file attachments if needed.

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I mentioned in the FSX support echo but haven't heard back yet. By disappear, I mean that Talisman counts them but cannot list them and I cannot read them.

Strange. I'm using nothing but Talisman and it's internal tools and
things are pretty darn stable here. No issues with the messages at all. Before postie I used Fastecho which also worked. (Other then the bugs
everyone knows about fastecho).

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I mentioned in the FSX support echo but haven't heard back yet. By

Did my message on fsx not come through? In case it didn't could you
please send me a copy of the broken squish base (both the sqd and sqi
files) and a copy of your message area toml file.

No, I have been having some issues connecting with fsx since yesterday
morning. Traffic has been sporadic.

Yes, I can send a copy. I kept a copy before starting it over.

That's interesting, if you are able can you catch a packet from them?
Might be too much trouble, but would be interesting to see what's
different about that packet.

They have not responded back since.

Also, you're running on raspberry pi right? is it just running raspbian?
what version etc?

Yes, it is a Pi 2. uname reports 4.1.17-v7+ on armv71.

It's weird because I'm running Postie & Talisman and am not seeing any issues, who is your fsx hub?

I was pulling mail for that machine from my Magicka system. I switched
over to pulling from my Synchronet system, 21:1/175, to see if that would
help. Don't know if it is related but so far the issue is minimal. Once I
run squish out my locally posted replies show up in the message base.

Also, my email is apamment AT positronicbrain DOT net, if you can zip
that stuff up and either send it to my email or upload it to my BBS that would be great.

I will zip and send shortly. Thanks!

Mike


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I mentioned in the FSX support echo but haven't heard back yet. By disappear, I mean that Talisman counts them but cannot list them and I cannot read them.

Strange. I'm using nothing but Talisman and it's internal tools and
things are pretty darn stable here. No issues with the messages at all. Before postie I used Fastecho which also worked. (Other then the bugs everyone knows about fastecho).

Postie was the first thing I ran where I ran into an issue. DOS Squish has some issues but they seem to be temporary (I got it to where the disappeared messages return). I may need to revert back to postie and see what happens with it.

Mike


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Re: Squish for linux?
By: Tiny to Mike Powell on Thu Dec 07 2023 06:03:14

Strange. I'm using nothing but Talisman and it's internal tools and
things are pretty darn stable here. No issues with the messages at all. Before postie I used Fastecho which also worked. (Other then the bugs everyone knows about fastecho).

Are you sure your messages are all getting out? I have reset my message areas and added some, and have gone to using postie exclusively. Area corruption is gone, and some messages get out, but many are either not being scanned and bagged, or binkd cannot find the packets (maybe the flo files are not right... I cannot tell since I don't read ftn hex).
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Are you sure your messages are all getting out? I have reset my

Pretty sure. I get replies and had a regular user who used to post a
dozen a day and they all got out.

bagged, or binkd cannot find the packets (maybe the flo files are not
I cannot tell since I don't read ftn hex).

I'm sure it's a bink setting. I used to use binkd but now use binki
because as I said may as well just go all in with internal apps. :)

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Hello, Mike!

Replying to a message of Mike Powell to Tiny:

the packets (maybe the flo files are not right... I cannot tell since
I don't read ftn hex)

I wrote a utility that does just that. Let me find the code and I can clean it up and compile it for you. You want DOS or Win32?

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Are you sure your messages are all getting out? I have reset my

Pretty sure. I get replies and had a regular user who used to post a
dozen a day and they all got out.

apam did some tweaking under the thought that maybe my version of raspbian wasn't interpreting the endian stuff correctly. I recompiled it, started
using postie again, and it all appears to be working now - k-o-w.

I did find a mistake in my binkd.cfg that was causing it not to find the micronet flo files, so that is also now working. Imported a whole bunch of messages in one of the test echos this morning and everything imported ok,
no disappearances that I could see.

Much gooder! :D


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the packets (maybe the flo files are not right... I cannot tell since
I don't read ftn hex)

I wrote a utility that does just that. Let me find the code and I can clean i
up and compile it for you. You want DOS or Win32?

This would be on armv71 linux. ;) I think I got it figured out now... my brain, eyes, and fingers do not cooperate as well as they used to,
especially late in the day. :D


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SEAN DENNIS wrote to MIKE POWELL <=-

the packets (maybe the flo files are not right... I cannot tell since
I don't read ftn hex)

I wrote a utility that does just that. Let me find the code and I can clean it up and compile it for you. You want DOS or Win32?

Can you email me that in win32?

My solution is to use windows calculator, go into Programmer mode, then
select HEX - enter the hex and it convers to decimal.

Kev


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Mike Powell wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

This would be on armv71 linux. ;) I think I got it figured out now...
my brain, eyes, and fingers do not cooperate as well as they used to, especially late in the day. :D

It should be simple enough to do but unfortunately I don't have an ARM
system handy.

I manged to misplace 500+ files lastnight in my filebase and spent 4+
hours trying to fix the damage. Today I'll be making backups. <G>

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Kevin Nunn wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

Can you email me that in win32?

When I get it done. Ran into a small problem I need to figure out.

My solution is to use windows calculator, go into Programmer mode, then select HEX - enter the hex and it convers to decimal.

I've done that also.

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My solution is to use windows calculator, go into Programmer mode, then select HEX - enter the hex and it convers to decimal.

Synchronet's echocfg utility will tell me what *.flo hex value = which node
I am connected to, and will also tell me which OUT.* directories belog to
which zone. I could have consulted it had the number I was looking for not been my Synchronet systems number. :D

Mike


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Hello Mike!

10 Dec 23 10:14, you wrote to TINY:

Much gooder! :D

That's much more betterer!

Andrew

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