Re: Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page added: howto:freq
By: Gamgee to Digital Man on Tue Mar 11 2025 12:12 pm

Re: Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page added: howto:freq
By: Digital Man to Gamgee on Mon Mar 10 2025 08:42 pm

Below is a log snip of what I see in sbbs.log when the FREQ comes in. The entries before and after this snip are just the session start/stop messages, no other useful information is seen. I also snipped the timestamp at the beginning of each line for readability:

srvc 0013 BINKP Receiving file: /sbbs/temp/00870073.req (0.0KB) srvc 0013 BINKP Received file: /sbbs/temp/00870073.req (0.0KB)
srvc 0013 BINKP Deleted file: /sbbs/temp/00870073.req
srvc 0013 BINKP Receiving file: /sbbs/temp/nfx4kkji.req (0.0KB) srvc 0013 BINKP Received file: /sbbs/temp/nfx4kkji.req (0.0KB)
srvc 0013 BINKP Deleted file: /sbbs/temp/nfx4kkji.req

Digital Man, any more thoughts on this?

Nope. I start added some log() statements to binkit.js to find out what's happening.

Do you mean you are going to add some log statements, or that I should do that? Because... I don't know how to do that.

You would edit the file binkit.js and add lines around the .req file handling, for example:

if (fname.search(/\.req$/i) !== -1) {
log("REQ file received, calling handle_freq");
handle_freq(fname, bp);
remove_file(fname);
}

Then when BinkIt receives a .req file, I'd expect to see that string in your logs.

It seems like BinkIT is not
recognizing that there is an inbound ".req" netmail, and doesn't trigger the FreqIT function.

I looked at freqit.js and see that it "loads" fidocfg.js and freqit_common.js. That second one requires filebase.js, and in that last one I see a comment reference regarding an "unnecessary shim for the new Filebase class". Just a wild guess, but did the new 3.20 filebase break something?

Doubt it.

Well, then a followup question would be: Has FreqIT ever worked in the past?

I assume so, but I've never personally used it.

I'm just now trying to get it working and don't know if it ever did
before.

Should I put in a Gitlab issue? How can I fix this? Thank you.

If you want to reach the author (Deuce) that's probably the best way, yes.
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Hi Gamgee,

On 2025-03-11 12:12:27, you wrote to Digital Man:

Well, then a followup question would be: Has FreqIT ever worked in
the past? I'm just now trying to get it working and don't know if it
ever did before.

I've succesfully tested it against: 4:902/26

He was running: BinkIT/2.41,JSBinkP/4,sbbs3.20a/Linux at the time.


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Digital Man wrote to Gamgee <=-

Do you mean you are going to add some log statements, or that I should do that? Because... I don't know how to do that.

You would edit the file binkit.js and add lines around the .req file handling, for example:

if (fname.search(/\.req$/i) !== -1) {
log("REQ file received, calling handle_freq");
handle_freq(fname, bp);
remove_file(fname);
}

Then when BinkIt receives a .req file, I'd expect to see that string in your logs.

Great, thank you. I will do that and see what I see.

Should I put in a Gitlab issue? How can I fix this? Thank you.

If you want to reach the author (Deuce) that's probably the best way,
yes.

All right, I'll muck about with it a little more and then do that if I
can't get it going. Thank you!




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Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Gamgee <=-

Well, then a followup question would be: Has FreqIT ever worked in
the past? I'm just now trying to get it working and don't know if it
ever did before.

I've succesfully tested it against: 4:902/26

He was running: BinkIT/2.41,JSBinkP/4,sbbs3.20a/Linux at the time.

Interesting. OK, thank you!




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