I usually just log into the board via the web interface and scan the message groups, but is there any recommendations for a good Debian Stretch GUI reader ... using the Raspbian Pixel Desktop?

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Re: Read/Send Messages
By: Mortifis to All on Sun Oct 07 2018 06:59 pm

I usually just log into the board via the web interface and scan the message groups, but is there any recommendations for a good Debian Stretch GUI reader ... using the Raspbian Pixel Desktop?

Look for a newsgroup reader (may also be called an NNTP reader or "news reader").

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Re: Read/Send Messages
By: Mortifis to All on Sun Oct 07 2018 06:59 pm

I usually just log into the board via the web interface and scan the message groups, but is there any recommendations for a good Debian Stretch GUI reader ... using the Raspbian Pixel Desktop?

I don't know of a GUI reader, but there is Golded+. Newer versions have support for SMB message areas. It's not a GUI reader it works from a terminal but is very featureful. It'll need some tweaks in the config to work with Synchronet but is doable.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Re: Read/Send Messages
By: Mortifis to All on Sun Oct 07 2018 06:59 pm

I usually just log into the board via the web interface and scan the message groups, but is there any recommendations for a good Debian Stretch GUI reader ... using the Raspbian Pixel Desktop?

I don't know of a GUI reader, but there is Golded+. Newer versions have support for SMB message areas. It's not a GUI reader it works from a terminal but is very featureful. It'll need some tweaks in the config to work with Synchronet but is doable.

Ttyl :-),
Al

Thanks, Al

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Re: Read/Send Messages
By: Mortifis to All on Sun Oct 07 2018 06:59 pm

I usually just log into the board via the web interface and scan the message groups, but is there any recommendations for a good Debian Stretch GUI reader ... using the Raspbian Pixel Desktop?

I don't know of a GUI reader, but there is Golded+. Newer versions have support for SMB message areas. It's not a GUI reader it works from a terminal but is very featureful. It'll need some tweaks in the config to work with Synchronet but is doable.

Ttyl :-),
Al

Thanks, I tried that but it isn't supported under Stretch. I ended up using XPN which seems 'OK'

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Re: Re: Read/Send Messages
By: Mortifis to Al on Mon Oct 08 2018 02:13 pm

I don't know of a GUI reader, but there is Golded+. Newer versions
have support for SMB message areas. It's not a GUI reader it works
from a terminal but is very featureful. It'll need some tweaks in the
config to work with Synchronet but is doable.

I've tried GoldEd+ with Synchronet, but I found it didn't support Synchronet's internal code prefixes. I think there was a patch submitted to improve its support for that, but I hadn't tried it (I think it required building the GoldEd+ source, and at the time I had some trouble setting up all the prerequisites to build it).

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Read/Send Messages
By: Mortifis to Al on Mon Oct 08 2018 02:13 pm

Thanks, I tried that but it isn't supported under Stretch. I ended up using XPN which seems 'OK'

There may not be a pre built package in the repositories but golded will build from source. There is a dist-gpl.sh in the root of the source directory you can run to build it. It'll ask you to edit a .h file the first time you run it so do that and run it again and it'll build golded and put it in a zip file for you. There is also a dist-gpc.sh you can run to create a zip file with docs and example configs. All of that is in the source archive.

I use the latest source from sourceforge.net but I think you can get right upto date with cvs or git.. I haven't looked that deep into it.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/golded-plus/files/Golded%2B%201.1.5%20 snapshots/2017.03.03/gpsrc-115-20170303.tgz

The link above is all on one line.. :)

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Re: Re: Read/Send Messages
By: Nightfox to Al on Mon Oct 08 2018 12:38 pm

I've tried GoldEd+ with Synchronet, but I found it didn't support Synchronet's internal code prefixes. I think there was a patch submitted to improve its support for that, but I hadn't tried it (I think it required building the GoldEd+ source, and at the time I had some trouble setting up all the prerequisites to build it).

Yep, golded is a text reader/editor. It doesn't display ansi, <CTRL> A or pipe codes the way a BBS would.

I just read and reply from the BBS in almost all cases and find that works well for me..

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Re: Re: Read/Send Messages
By: Al to Nightfox on Mon Oct 08 2018 02:53 pm

Yep, golded is a text reader/editor. It doesn't display ansi, <CTRL> A or pipe codes the way a BBS would.

I just read and reply from the BBS in almost all cases and find that works well for me..

Do you use internal code prefixes with your message groups?

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Read/Send Messages
By: Nightfox to Al on Mon Oct 08 2018 04:02 pm

I just read and reply from the BBS in almost all cases and find that
works well for me..

Do you use internal code prefixes with your message groups?

Yes, but I don't have golded setup with Synchronet ATM.

In the past I exported the golded config and had to manually set the areas up in my golded.cfg to be able to read all the areas correctly.

I'm not sure if that is still needed or not but I did have to set golded to not add tear and origin lines since SBBS does that when it exports messages.

It's a bit of configuring but it can be done.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Re: Re: Read/Send Messages
By: Al to Nightfox on Mon Oct 08 2018 04:37 pm

Do you use internal code prefixes with your message groups?

Yes, but I don't have golded setup with Synchronet ATM.

Ah.. Do you export your Synchronet messages to another format to read with GoldEd?

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Read/Send Messages
By: Nightfox to Al on Mon Oct 08 2018 05:07 pm

Yes, but I don't have golded setup with Synchronet ATM.

Ah.. Do you export your Synchronet messages to another format to read with GoldEd?

No, I had Golded setup to read the SBBS configs, then I ran golded with a command line option (-x maybe, not sure now) so it would export it's configuration to a file, then corrected the incorrect internal codes and started golded with that configuration.

I'll fire up golded with SBBS again and have a fresh look at the setup.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Re: Re: Read/Send Messages
By: Mortifis to Al on Mon Oct 08 2018

02:13 pm

Thanks, I tried that but it isn't

supported under Stretch. I ended up

using XPN which seems 'OK'

There may not be a pre built package in

the repositories but golded will

build from source. There is a dist-gpl.sh

in the root of the source

directory you can run to build it. It'll

ask you to edit a .h file the first

time you run it so do that and run it

again and it'll build golded and put

it in a zip file for you. There is also a

dist-gpc.sh you can run to create

a zip file with docs and example configs.

All of that is in the source

archive.

I use the latest source from

sourceforge.net but I think you can get right

upto date with cvs or git.. I haven't

looked that deep into it.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/golded-

plus/files/Golded%2B%201.1.5%20

snapshots/2017.03.03/gpsrc-115-

20170303.tgz

The link above is all on one line.. :)

Ttyl :-),
Al

Excellent thank you

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Re: Re: Read/Send Messages
By: Mortifis to Al on Mon Oct 08 2018 02:13 pm

By: Mortifis to All on Sun Oct 07 2018 06:59 pm

Thanks, I tried that but it isn't supported under Stretch. I ended up using XPN which seems 'OK'

Are you saying golded+ isnt supported on Stretch? I use it on stretech on a PI - and I've made a deb of it - I can give you the link to get the deb if you are interested.

...deon
...deon

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Re: Re: Read/Send Messages
By: Mortifis to Al on Mon Oct 08 2018 02:13 pm

By: Mortifis to All on Sun Oct 07 2018 06:59 pm

Thanks, I tried that but it isn't supported under Stretch. I ended up using XPN which seems 'OK'

Are you saying golded+ isnt supported on Stretch? I use it on stretech on a PI - and I've made a deb of it - I can give you the link to get the deb if you are interested.

I suppose I could be more precise in my statement: golded+ can be built from source on raspbian, but it is not a supported package that one can simple apt-get upgrade with, I don't have the time available like I did before, some things, for me, are worth building, like SBBS, some aren't, like golded+ :-P I'll check it out at some point. Thank you, Deon.

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