--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 256 RYBBS Ref: CE500000 Date: 10/03/95 From: JIM HENRY Time: 02:11pm \/To: DAVE HASSLER (Read 5 times) Subj: Deleting old msgs Hello Dave, DH>I'm having a problem getting either RYDELOLD 1.00 or Message Masher 2.3 to DH>do anything. DH>Rydelold: COMMAND: rydelold -Rc:\rybbs\ -B10 -N11 -D5 DH> RESPONSE: Runtime error 201 at 0000:0D01 DH>Message Masher: Parameters are unknown as the docs do not list a command DH>line or any switches to point it to it's .cfg file. I've tried every DH>likely combination I can think of. DH>SYSTEM: RyBBS 8.0 under DOS 6.21 on the trusty ol' 286. DH>I only need to set DEL flags on *one* message board that gets about 100 DH>messages/day. It is MURDER going through and hand-deleting the bottom DH>100 msgs every morning! DH>If anyone using either of these has a suggestion I'd greatly appreciate . DH>Thanks. Can't you just use Rpack? There's also another utility, I haven't used it in years, called DLOLDMSG. or something like that. Or, (if he's released it), Bill Mitchell's PACKETS? -jIM- --- SLMR 2.1a Support Airgunning. Subscribe to AirPower! --- RyPacker v2.5 * Origin: AirPower Home of the AIRGUN Echo 610-259-2193 (1:273/408) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 256 RYBBS Ref: CEA00000 Date: 10/05/95 From: GREG RYAN (Co-Sysop) Time: 07:26pm \/To: JIM HENRY (Read 5 times) Subj: dsz & Ry JH>I understand this and have done so. The problem is that when you do JH>this, Ry defaults to port 1 (as seen on the call waiting screen). Thus, JH>if you actually DO have a node on COM1 there is still a conflict, and JH>bleed through between nodes. Try it yourself and see. If you should do when you use the IRQ and Baseaddr commands the com port displayed on the waiting screen is not reliable since you're not really using a "standard" com port (or potentially not since Com1 is really defined as a certain base/irq combo) remember to use the commands like this: irq 3 irq 4 irq 5 baseaddr $3f8 baseaddr $2e8 the irq statement MUST have a space after it...the baseaddr (if you're entering hexadecimal) MUST have a $ before the number Greg --- SLMR 2.1a Backup not found: (A)bort (R)etry (P)anic --- RyPacker v2.7 * Origin: RyBBS HomeBase `Home of RyBBS!' (414)-962-1098 (1:154/333) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 256 RYBBS Ref: CEA00001 Date: 10/05/95 From: GREG RYAN (Co-Sysop) Time: 07:29pm \/To: BILL MITCHELL (Read 5 times) Subj: dsz & Ry BM>Removal of the COMn setting in startup.bbs causes Ry to default to COM1 BM>even when the BASEADDR and IRQ paramaters are in startup.bbs. I haven't BM>checked this out in a while, but that was also my experience. this should certainly NOT be the case...however it could be possible...see my previous message for specific info about usage. greg BM>Ry will not run here with the following in startup.bbs: BM>IRQ 2 BM>BASEADDR 03E8 we need the $ in front of the 3e8 greg BM>It will run if baseaddr is removed and COM3 is inserted. However, even that's because com3 is a 'standard' com port...com1-com4 may be used in rybbs if you use the standard settings. However you may not use all of them at the same time since the four ports share 2 interrupts. greg --- SLMR 2.1a Nothing is so smiple that it can't get screwed up. --- RyPacker v2.7 * Origin: RyBBS HomeBase `Home of RyBBS!' (414)-962-1098 (1:154/333) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 256 RYBBS Ref: CEA00002 Date: 10/05/95 From: GREG RYAN (Co-Sysop) Time: 07:32pm \/To: JIM HENRY (Read 5 times) Subj: multi-node chat JH>"You are being paged into multi-node chat. To accept the page select N JH>from the Main menu." hmm....i'm not sure why this would happen however i suspect it may have been a leftover from a previous caller. JH>Thhe other consideration is, that from MY Main menu if you select N you JH>will see todays World,National, and Headline News. So I immediately JH>went into Ryprompt.bbs to take a look. I could not find this there JH>either. Can you tell us a little more about how this whole chat thing JH>works (or is supposed to work)? actually this is a bug...i accidentily hardcoded that into the program because i was using MY system to test it...and forgot that not everybody has the N for that access command i'll see what i can do to remove same Greg --- SLMR 2.1a My reality check just bounced. --- RyPacker v2.7 * Origin: RyBBS HomeBase `Home of RyBBS!' (414)-962-1098 (1:154/333) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 256 RYBBS Ref: CEA00003 Date: 10/05/95 From: GREG RYAN (Co-Sysop) Time: 07:33pm \/To: JEFFREY STUEBER (Read 5 times) Subj: my bbs JS>BTW I got this flyer about learning the internet in October.... JS>I didn't know you were the president of Exec pc com! yes...but as it turns out i've decided not to attend this meeting Greg --- SLMR 2.1a All hope abandon, ye who enter messages here. --- RyPacker v2.7 * Origin: RyBBS HomeBase `Home of RyBBS!' (414)-962-1098 (1:154/333) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 256 RYBBS Ref: CEA00004 Date: 10/05/95 From: GREG RYAN (Co-Sysop) Time: 07:38pm \/To: DAVE HASSLER (Read 5 times) Subj: Deleting old msgs DH>I only need to set DEL flags on *one* message board that gets about 100 DH>messages/day. It is MURDER going through and hand-deleting the bottom DH>100 msgs every morning! have you taken a look at the rybbs utilities? the rpack may be able to do what you want to do. greg --- SLMR 2.1a If this were an actual tagline, it would be funny. --- RyPacker v2.7 * Origin: RyBBS HomeBase `Home of RyBBS!' (414)-962-1098 (1:154/333) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 256 RYBBS Ref: CEB00000 Date: 10/06/95 From: DAVE HASSLER Time: 11:19am \/To: GREG RYAN (Co-Sysop)(Rcvd) (Read 5 times) Subj: Deleting old msgs DH>I only need to set DEL flags on *one* message board that gets about 100 DH>messages/day. It is MURDER going through and hand-deleting the bottom DH>100 msgs every morning! GR> have you taken a look at the rybbs utilities? the rpack GR> may be able to do what you want to do. greg I have all the utilities and the best rpack is able to do is delete one (1) month's worth of messages on ALL bases. A) in 30 day's time the one msg board I need to work on would have near 1,500 messages on it! (a UseNet newsgroup, R.S.Volleyball). B) I don't want to delete any other board until there are 3/4 month's worth of messages. So, I'm stuck. I need something that will either keep the msg boards at about 200 messages, or keep only one week's worth on this one board. --- cPoint v2.17/FreeWare * Origin: The VolleyBoard BBS 503.221.7927 - PDX (1:105/290.35) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 256 RYBBS Ref: CEC00000 Date: 10/05/95 From: BILL MITCHELL Time: 11:17am \/To: JIM HENRY (Read 5 times) Subj: Deleting old msgs JH>Can't you just use Rpack? There's also another utility, I haven't used JH>it in years, called DLOLDMSG. or something like that. Or, (if he's JH>released it), Bill Mitchell's PACKETS? Jim, I haven't released it, since I really have never come to a conclusion as to what I wanted it to do. However, in "Packets" present configuration it sets the delete flag in messages according to a cfg file, ie. if the number of messages exceeds a limit z, then it sets the delete flag in the first x number of messages so that y messages remain. The y and z parameters are in the cfg file. It also writes a new RYBOARDS.BBS file which contains only the areas that needed messages deleted in. Then RPACK is run to do the actual message base packing, of course the RYBOARDS.BBS files are swapped when running RPACK. Run as an event here around 3am in a spawned window in DV, this maintains over 250 message bases here and cuts RPACKing time. RPACK's /N option can be used without the "Packets" utility, but the packets utility cuts down on the time needed to delete and pack. Some other message utilities I have written: Subject line clean up utility, removes the RE: trash some off line readers add. EMAIL private bit setter. And the out2pkt utility to fix the broken path line and a few other bugs in rypacker which works in conjunction with SQUISH which also gets around problems with QWK and Ry's internal MSG file production. These use subroutines I wrote for the sometime this century replacement of rypacker. Right now I need the format that Opus uses for the binary date and time in the optional zone/point fields in the header of a *.MSG file, but haven't found this info yet. --- RyPacker v2.5a * Origin: The Right Place V.34+ DS RyBBS 201-947-8231 (1:2604/539) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 256 RYBBS Ref: CEC00001 Date: 10/07/95 From: HERB GUENTHER Time: 08:23pm \/To: BILL MITCHELL (Read 5 times) Subj: dsz & Ry Hi Guys; I run 4 modems in one machine, which sounds like what you want to do. If yo ulike I can send you my config files. I also use omens dsz, all w/o problems for a couple years. Herb --- RyPacker v2.7 * Origin: RyBBS HomeBase `Home of RyBBS!' (414)-962-1098 (1:154/333) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 256 RYBBS Ref: CED00000 Date: 10/08/95 From: GREG RYAN (Co-Sysop) Time: 09:02am \/To: DAVE HASSLER (Read 5 times) Subj: Deleting old msgs DH>So, I'm stuck. I need something that will either keep the msg boards at DH>about 200 messages, or keep only one week's worth on this one board. DH> actually rpack will do EXACTLY what you want...try this rpack /M /N200 that will pack the message areas...and leave only 200 of the latest messages in each base greg --- RyPacker v2.7 * Origin: RyBBS HomeBase `Home of RyBBS!' (414)-962-1098 (1:154/333)