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    From Rick Smith@618:300/1 to All on Sunday, March 26, 2023 11:53:08
    Hello All!

    Do any of you use hpt with micronet specifically nlupd? Do you update nodelist manually or run a script? With fidonet it works as nodelists come in sequential numbering scheme so nlupd grabs the latest and updates system.. Micronet comes as MICRONET.ZIP which is fine I can upzip it and move nodelist where it needs to be to get updated. Just curious if any of you have found an effective way to do this in a script?

    Regards,

    Rick

    ... I love BBSing: All the social dynamics of kindergarten!
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  • From Warpslide@618:500/23 to Rick Smith on Sunday, March 26, 2023 17:23:31
    On 26 Mar 2023, Rick Smith said the following...

    With fidonet it works as nodelists come in sequential numbering scheme nlupd grabs the latest and updates system.. Micronet comes as
    MICRONET.ZIP which is fine I can upzip it and move nodelist where it
    needs to be to get updated. Just curious if any of you have found
    an effective way to do this in a script?

    So I don't use HPT but have this setup which works with Mystic:

    [ begin nodelist.sh ]
    #!/bin/bash
    tmpdir=`mktemp -d`
    cd $tmpdir
    rm -f /home/jay/mystic/micronet.???
    wget -q https://www.minftn.net/micronet.zip
    unzip micronet.zip -x file_id.diz -d /home/jay/mystic
    cd /home/jay/mystic
    ./mutil -NOSCREEN nodelist.ini
    rm -f $tmpdir/*
    rmdir $tmpdir
    [ end nodelist.sh ]

    I run this every Friday evening. It grabs the latest .zip from minftn.net as I'm not subscribed to the file echos at the moment. Before I would just unzip the micronet.zip file I got from MIN_LIST to my mystic directory which as the same result. You could do something similar before running nlupd.


    Jay

    ... Whenever I try to eat healthy a chocolate bar looks at me and Snickers

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    * Origin: Northern Realms (618:500/23)
  • From Martin Kazmaier@618:300/50 to Rick Smith on Monday, March 27, 2023 08:58:00
    Hello All!

    Do any of you use hpt with micronet specifically nlupd? Do you update nodelist manually or run a script? With fidonet it works as nodelists
    come in sequential numbering scheme so nlupd grabs the latest and updates system.. Micronet comes as MICRONET.ZIP which is fine I can upzip it and move nodelist where it needs to be to get updated. Just curious if any of you have found an effective way to do this in a script?

    I've tried using nlupd, but it always reports that the nodelists are too old
    or too new and never does anything. Is another utility needed as well to
    create the index file? I've never found a good explanation on how to get
    this working. I'm using Ele, with IREX and Fastecho. I've yet to get
    netmail working other than with hubs. I'm pretty sure it's because I've
    never had a working nodelist.

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