Anyone notice a change in posting a ansi ad in a message conf?
I was posting ads all the time when running 3.19 now with the 3.20 upgrade
all the ads are messed up and do not show right?

Any ideas, I did not change one setting in the mesage areas after upgrading.

Thanks...





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Re: Posting a ansi ad
By: Havok to All on Fri Oct 06 2023 02:55 pm

Anyone notice a change in posting a ansi ad in a message conf?

How are you uploading?

One way I do it is with /upload in the regular line editor.

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Re: Posting a ansi ad
By: Phigan to Havok on Fri Oct 06 2023 07:51 pm

One way I do it is with /upload in the regular line editor.

E] External Editor : None
/upload (file)
then /s save

Same as I always have.


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Re: Posting a ansi ad
By: Havok to Phigan on Sun Oct 08 2023 12:04 pm

Re: Posting a ansi ad
By: Phigan to Havok on Fri Oct 06 2023 07:51 pm

One way I do it is with /upload in the regular line editor.

E] External Editor : None
/upload (file)
then /s save

Same as I always have.

Maybe the problem is the files you're uploading.
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On Sun Oct 8 12:04:00 2023, Havok wrote to Phigan <=-

One way I do it is with /upload in the regular line editor.

E] External Editor : None
/upload (file)
then /s save

Same as I always have.

wait... what witchcraft is this?

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Re: Posting a ansi ad
By: Charles Blackburn to Havok on Mon Oct 09 2023 06:15 pm

wait... what witchcraft is this?

The internal (line-based) message editor in Synchronet supports the uploading of message body text via ZMODEM or any other protocol configured by the sysop when using its "/upload" command.

The fseditor.js (full-screen editor) also supports direct-ZMODEM upload of message body text.
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Re: Posting a ansi ad
By: Charles Blackburn to Havok on Mon Oct 09 2023 06:15 pm

One way I do it is with /upload in the regular line editor.

E] External Editor : None /upload (file)
then /s save

wait... what witchcraft is this?

SlyEdit also supports message uploading with /upload.

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On Mon Oct 9 18:12:00 2023, Digital Man wrote to Charles Blackburn <=-

Re: Posting a ansi ad
By: Charles Blackburn to Havok on Mon Oct 09 2023 06:15 pm

wait... what witchcraft is this?

The internal (line-based) message editor in Synchronet supports the uploading of message body text via ZMODEM or any other protocol configured by the sysop when using its "/upload" command.

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dang you learn something new every day lol i've just been doing a regular "ascii transfer" aka let the computer do the typing :D

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Re: Posting a ansi ad
By: Charles Blackburn to Havok on Mon Oct 09 2023 06:15 pm

One way I do it is with /upload in the regular line editor.

E] External Editor : None /upload (file)
then /s save

wait... what witchcraft is this?

SlyEdit also supports message uploading with /upload.

tbh i havent spent much in playing around with stuff like that, but it's definately pretty cool

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Re: Posting a ansi ad
By: Digital Man to Havok on Sun Oct 08 2023 09:30 pm

Maybe the problem is the files you're uploading.

Hello
normally I would agree with you but if someone looked in the network
message ad areas I had no trouble /uploading a asci or ansi file and
it is the same files I used in 3.19 now 3.20.

Also I see in the message networks where a empty echo area use to state 0 messages now shows 1969 messages.

Now most times if I was going to pick a number that would be 1969.





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Re: Posting a ansi ad
By: Havok to Digital Man on Mon Oct 09 2023 09:52 am

Re: Posting a ansi ad
By: Digital Man to Havok on Sun Oct 08 2023 09:30 pm

Maybe the problem is the files you're uploading.

Hello
normally I would agree with you but if someone looked in the network
message ad areas I had no trouble /uploading a asci or ansi file and
it is the same files I used in 3.19 now 3.20.

I already posted an explanation of why that is: v3.19 didn't sufficient bounds-checking on uploaded message text, so super-long-line ANSIs like yours work "work", but could also corrupt the heap. That was fixed in v3.20 (max line lengths are now enforced). Saving your ANSI with max line lengths of 79 chars would work around the issue, but I'll give a better solution more thought.

Also I see in the message networks where a empty echo area use to state 0 messages now shows 1969 messages.

Now most times if I was going to pick a number that would be 1969.

I don't think there's any significance. Use 'smbutil' if you want to know what's going on with a message base.
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Maybe the problem is the files you're uploading.

Hello
normally I would agree with you but if someone looked in the network
message ad areas I had no trouble /uploading a asci or ansi file and
it is the same files I used in 3.19 now 3.20.

Based on DM's explanation, 3.19 did not have a limit on the length of the
line in the file you were uploading so your files likely did work fine with 3.19. However, that lack of a limit was causing an overflow bug that
needed to be fixed.

In 3.20, there is a line-length limit so your file needs to be resaved with a line-length of 79 characters or less. Not sure what you created the ANSIs
in, but TheDraw always asks me, during the save process, how many
characters per line I want to save the file with. To be safe, I always go
with 76.

I would resave the file with a line-length less-than or equal-to 79, like
DM suggested, and try it again.


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Re: Posting a ansi ad
By: Digital Man to Havok on Fri Oct 13 2023 10:50 am

I already posted an explanation of why that is: v3.19 didn't sufficient bounds-checking on uploaded messages.

Laughing here is something new for me, I found the the ICE editor has a
upload option also I use a modified ans and one of the old unmodified ad
files and both uploaded just fine into a message echo area.

I'm just fine now!

Thanks...




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Re: Posting a ansi ad
By: Mike Powell to HAVOK on Fri Oct 13 2023 09:33 am

Based on DM's explanation, 3.19 did not have a limit on the length of the line in the file you were uploading so your files likely did work fine with 3.19. However, that lack of a limit was causing an overflow bug that needed to be fixed.

Hello Mike

Like I replied to DM I got both files to work with the ICE editor, both files
uploaded like a professional!

Thanks...


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Havok wrote to Digital Man <=-

Re: Posting a ansi ad
By: Digital Man to Havok on Fri Oct 13 2023 10:50 am

I already posted an explanation of why that is: v3.19 didn't sufficient bounds-checking on uploaded messages.

Laughing here is something new for me, I found the the ICE
editor has a
upload option also I use a modified ans and one of the old
unmodified ad
files and both uploaded just fine into a message echo area.

I'm just fine now!

Havok,

This is unrelated to the topic above... Did you receive the email I sent
you about FidoNet? You had given me the address to use in a MicroNet
message area, and now you don't seem to see/respond to anything there...

Are you still looking to get a FidoNet address, or not? If so, please
reply to the email I sent you.

If not, please let me know.



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This is unrelated to the topic above... Did you receive the email I sent
you about FidoNet? You had given me the address to use in a MicroNet
message area, and now you don't seem to see/respond to anything there...

Are you still looking to get a FidoNet address, or not? If so, please
reply to the email I sent you.

If not, please let me know.

If it helps, he usually responds to micronet netmail at this micronet
address: Havok@618:250/21

As you are both net 250 nodes, you can route it through your hub (me) and
it should get there.


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Mike Powell wrote to GAMGEE <=-

This is unrelated to the topic above... Did you receive the email I sent
you about FidoNet? You had given me the address to use in a MicroNet message area, and now you don't seem to see/respond to anything there...

Are you still looking to get a FidoNet address, or not? If so, please
reply to the email I sent you.

If not, please let me know.

If it helps, he usually responds to micronet netmail at this
micronet address: Havok@618:250/21

As you are both net 250 nodes, you can route it through your hub
(me) and it should get there.

Thanks Mike, we have established communications, finally. Trying to
navigate the next hurdles now... ;-)



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Re: Re: Posting a ansi ad
By: Gamgee to Mike Powell on Mon Oct 16 2023 07:32 am

Are you still looking to get a FidoNet address, or not? If so,
please reply to the email I sent you.

If it helps, he usually responds to micronet netmail at this
micronet address: Havok@618:250/21

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