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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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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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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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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