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    From Retro Guy@1:103/705 to All on Thu Jan 9 13:14:09 2025
    I've added some viewers for some file types in Viewable Files and all seems to be working fine, until I try ARJ files.

    I can view them fine from a command line with either arj or 7z (arj|7z l <filename>), but can not when configuring sbbs to do so.

    The error I get is "Sorry, DOSEMU is not supported on this node." I'm running Debian Linux and don't use DOSEMU, but I don't think it would be required to display a file listing. (sbbs is 3.20a)

    I thought maybe the output from 7z or arj was triggering something, so I wrote a small script in it's place and get exactly the same error (returning just a line of nothing important from my script and told no DOSEMU support).

    Is sbbs producing this error based on the file being a .ARJ archive? Or am I missing something? I'm a bit confused at this point.

    Thanks for any pointers in the right direction.

    -Retro Guy
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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to Retro Guy on Thu Jan 9 10:09:33 2025
    Re: Viewing ARJ archives
    By: Retro Guy to All on Thu Jan 09 2025 01:14 pm

    I've added some viewers for some file types in Viewable Files and all seems to be working fine, until I try ARJ files.

    I can view them fine from a command line with either arj or 7z (arj|7z l <filename>> ), but can not when configuring sbbs to do so.

    The error I get is "Sorry, DOSEMU is not supported on this node." I'm running Debian Linux and don't use DOSEMU, but I don't think it would be required to display a file listing. (sbbs is 3.20a)

    I'm not sure if this would be the solution, but do you have 7z and arj specified in SCFG > External Programs > Native Program List?

    Nightfox

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Nightfox on Thu Jan 9 12:48:55 2025
    Re: Viewing ARJ archives
    By: Nightfox to Retro Guy on Thu Jan 09 2025 10:09 am

    The error I get is "Sorry, DOSEMU is not supported on this node." I'm running Debian Linux and don't use DOSEMU, but I don't think it would be required to display a file listing. (sbbs is 3.20a)

    I'm not sure if this would be the solution, but do you have 7z and arj specified in SCFG > External Programs > Native Program List?

    That is the correct solution.
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  • From Retro Guy@1:103/705 to Nightfox on Thu Jan 9 22:21:54 2025
    Re: Viewing ARJ archives
    By: Nightfox to Retro Guy on Thu Jan 09 2025 10:09 am

    The error I get is "Sorry, DOSEMU is not supported on this node." I'm
    running Debian Linux and don't use DOSEMU, but I don't think it would be
    required to display a file listing. (sbbs is 3.20a)

    I'm not sure if this would be the solution, but do you have 7z and arj specified in SCFG > External Programs > Native Program List?

    I do now and it works great. Thank you for the help!

    I must have known this at one point in time as I see other programs I have added in the past :) Oh well, I get to learn the same thing twice!
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