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   Dennis Katsonis to All   
   Re: Bulletin MPL program   
   22 Jan 22 10:31:00   
   
   From: nospam.Dennis.Katsonis@f1.n770.z96.fidonet.org   
      
   -=> g00r00 wrote to Dennis Katsonis <=-   
      
    g0> @MSGID: <61EAECFE.92.fidomystic@bbs.mozysswamp.org>   
    g0> @REPLY: <61EA07E7.88.fidomystic@bbs.mozysswamp.org>   
    DK> Nothing appears in the error log about this.  I upgraded from A46 to   
    DK> A47, and I think this is when this check stopped working.   
      
    g0> Did you follow the update instructions in upgrade.txt for A47?  There   
    g0> is a step specifically for the default bulletin MPL program:   
      
    g0>  - If you use the default bulletin system (bulletin.mps) then you   
    g0> should   
    g0>    replace it with the newer one otherwise you will probably get an   
    g0> error   
    g0>    trying to compile it:   
      
    g0>       install extract bulletin.mps c:\mystic\themes\default\scripts   
      
    g0>    Afterwards you will need to recompile it using "mplc -t"   
      
    DK> Is there a way to run this MPL program manually?  If I can do that, I   
    DK> can see if there is an error or something blocking it from running.  At   
    DK> least then, I can start troubleshooting.   
      
    g0> You can run MPL programs from the command line if you wanted to, but   
    g0> first lets confirm the above step.  It looks like the upgrade   
    g0> instruction steps actually tell you to run "mplc -t" before the step to   
    g0> copy over the new bulletin.mps so that could explain it too.   
      
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   Thanks, I did follow the instructions.  With a bit more digging I was able to   
   change a line of code in bulletin.mps to get it to seem to work.  See my later   
   follow up post.  A bug in bulletin.mps perhaps?   
      
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