Bug#607028: Fwd: Re: [xfbb] Bulletin Troubles

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

There is apparently an even newer version available.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [xfbb] Bulletin Troubles
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:36:27 +0100
From: f6bvp <f6bvp@free.fr>
To: List for the LINUX version of FBB <xfbb@f6fbb.org>
CC: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>

Hi  John,

I am surprised that FBB 704j can even work on a modern distro.
You had better trying the last FBB release.
See my recent posting on this list.

http://f6bvp.free.fr/logiciels/BBS-f6fbb/xd704r13-src.tar.bz2


73 de Bernard, f6bvp


Le 14/12/2010 05:37, John Goerzen a écrit :
> On 12/13/2010 09:39 PM, John Goerzen wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I'm trying to get FBB going on my Debian system, and have these problems
> > with 1.04j:
> >
> > When I send a bulletin with SB, I can observe this behavior:
> >
> > 1) When I view it locally with LB, the first 7 characters of the first
> > line have been removed.
> >
> > 2) I have a file forwarder defined, and when the same bulleting is
> > written to that file, the first line of the bulletin is empty and the
> > first line I typed never appears.
> >
> > Also, every single bulletin created gets held for system review with RE.
> > How can I make it stop doing that?
>
> Interestingly, I found the answer to this third problem, which lied
> with the default reject.sys.  Strangely, when things were no longer
> held by default, the corruption identified in #1 and #2 also went
> away.  I have no explanation for that one.
>
> -- John