• Golded Linux

    From Kai Richter@2:240/77 to nugax on Fri Nov 22 04:54:44 2024
    Hello nugax!

    17 Nov 24, nugax wrote to Kai Richter:

    Well awesome. Got somewhere with the instructions!

    So, I have a basic install and the program started. I have the AREADEF
    file of my Mystic file areas. How do I include that so I my message
    areas show.

    I don't know Mystic so i can't help you further.

    Regards

    Kai

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  • From Kai Richter@2:240/77 to David Gonzalez on Fri Nov 22 17:38:14 2024
    Hello David!

    18 Nov 24, David Gonzalez wrote to Kai Richter:

    The sample config will not work without adjustments.
    And that applies to all other shared configs too.

    know I am probably missing a step, but reading the docs have
    proven to be difficult. Can anyone give me some direction?

    Sure. RTFM. Nobody said it have to be easy. ;-)

    But helping others is what makes us humans, making other suffer as you did, is a show of envy and poor judgement.

    Why, i don't understand what i did.

    I really *hate it* when rtfm s**t shows up, yoy may know what OP is asking, I may not, but was it very difficult to reply with help?.

    Didn't you noticed the Smiley?
    Did you stop reading and start bashing directly after your trigger word?
    Didn't you noticed my help was within the next lines?
    I posted the no show bug solution that can't be found in the manuals yet.
    I took the -INSTALL keyword from the manpages to get golded to minimal work.

    Meanwhile this help was confirmed helpful by OP.

    Sorry it had to be said and it neither requires, nor expect an
    answer.

    This is about *hrlping others* not feeling betters undermining others.

    My help is still visible in your quotes.

    And you delivered the reason why "RTFM" is a known shortcut. People spend a great amount of time to help other people by writing a documentation.

    Especially open source fidonet software is not very userfriendly. I does require a personalized configuration sooner or later. To gain access to the already written help it is helpful to know how to handle the documentation, because the answer is only some search hits away.

    If you disrespect others for not helping you should respect others for helping at least by reading their content. That's why rtfm is a legit advice. And yes, i know that rtfm is not easy in the beginning, that's why there is a smiley and the help in my answer.

    Create an empty directory. If gedlnx is not in your path just
    copy gedlnx into it. You can create a minimal config with
    ./gedlnx -INSTALL

    There is a no show bug in case of config errors that can be
    worked around with "gedlnx > /dev/null". (keep the output into
    file "gedlnx > output.txt")

    Golded can have an advanced config. The group system, the charset
    system, the template system, the random system. You should start
    with a minimum and configure the features you need one after
    another.

    Regards

    Kai

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  • From David G@4:930/1 to Kai Richter on Wed Dec 4 08:37:45 2024

    Hello Kai!

    17 Nov 24 19:47, you wrote to nugax:

    Hello nugax!

    16 Nov 24, nugax wrote to All:

    I can run it but it just returns to command prompt with no output,

    The sample config will not work without adjustments.
    And that applies to all other shared configs too.

    know I am probably missing a step, but reading the docs have
    proven to be difficult. Can anyone give me some direction?

    Sure. RTFM. Nobody said it have to be easy. ;-)

    Create an empty directory. If gedlnx is not in your path just copy
    gedlnx into it. You can create a minimal config with ./gedlnx -INSTALL

    There is a no show bug in case of config errors that can be worked
    around with "gedlnx > /dev/null". (keep the output into file "gedlnx > output.txt")

    I'm going to try this

    Golded can have an advanced config. The group system, the charset
    system, the template system, the random system. You should start with
    a minimum and configure the features you need one after another.

    This was supposed to reach me and now I get why I missed so so many replies to my question... I didn't think one could move gedlnx by itslef to some random dir and run it from there.

    I'll try that and sww what I get.

    Although, I did try different TERM setting and found out that xterm draws the UI with some of the ble lines on messages missing, backspace doesn't work properly, NUM PAD doesn't work either, ALT+S, F-kjeys do not work, so I got halfway there.

    Regards

    Many thanks

    David


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  • From David Gonzalez@4:930/1 to nugax on Wed Dec 4 10:20:03 2024

    Hello nugax!

    22 Nov 24 04:54, Kai Richter wrote to you:

    Hello nugax!

    17 Nov 24, nugax wrote to Kai Richter:

    Well awesome. Got somewhere with the instructions!

    So, I have a basic install and the program started. I have the
    AREADEF file of my Mystic file areas. How do I include that so I
    my message areas show.

    Taking this from advice given to me by Mick, I think...

    I did this and worked for me, just make sure your golded.cfg or template
    have the Origin and TEARLINE set properly because I found out that
    parameter is not exported by Mystic so, bare that in mind.

    I'm using Mystic on windows but should be the same on linux.

    If you'd like full access to your message bases, without having to
    do multiple AREADEF lines, you probably need to create an AREAS.BBS from Mystic, and then use AREAFILE to point to that..

    1) Create areas.bbs from Mystic, and remember where you created it.
    2) Comment out all of your AREADEF lines in /this/ golded.cfg.
    3) When all AREADEF lines are commented out: In the same golded.cfg:

    REAFILE AREASBBS /path/to/areas.bbs

    HTH

    David

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