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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.               g0> ... Reward for a job well done: More work               g0> --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/01/19 (Windows/64)        g0> * Origin: Sector 7 * Mystic WHQ (1:129/215)              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?              ... MultiMail, the new multi-platform, multi-format offline reader!              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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