Hello August!
*** Sunday 10.05.20 at 17:27, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:
AA>>> Winpoint needs to be running for that to work. You're messin' with my
AA>>> mind. :/ Make sure you have Winpoint running, drop a nodelist.z## in
AA>>> the \DistribNL folder and watch Winpoint change it from nodelist.z## to
AA>>> nodelist.###
MF>> I'm still watching and nothing's happened yet :)
AA> Short of capturing on vidoe what I see, I don't know how to convince you
AA> that it *is* happening here.
I'm merely trying to reproduce on my own system what's happening on your
system but I can't.
AA> Maybe your WinPoint is not activate to auto-unpack or something like
AA> that?
AA> In Extras/Options/Automation, I have:
AA> List updates = Automatic in Background
Yep, same here.
AA>>> It was a brief confirmation in echomail. Despite my archive of msgs in
AA>>> POINTS, I can't seem to spot the specific exchange we had about it.
MF>> I've found one that's relevant to this thread but I don't know if it's
MF>> the same one you had in mind. Try doing a MsgID search for 4c120309
MF>> with OpenXP...
AA> [snip]
MF>> If you can't find that message, let me know and I'll repost it.
AA> I found it, but not in my local OpenXP. For me, that Winpoint discussion
AA> predated my introduction to OXP, so I looked in my Winpoint. Thankfully,
AA> Winpoint automatically includes the msgid in its "text" searches!
Oh, I didn't know WinPoint did that, thanks for the heads-up.
AA> In 4c1201309 the last sentence you wrote: "WinPoint's nodelist processor
AA> cannot process packed nodelist/pointlist files, although it can process
AA> packed nodediff/pointdiff files."
AA> I hear ya. But I swear to you, simply dropping the packed nodelist
AA> automatically unpacks here! I still have to Shift+Ctl+L or
AA> "Fidonet/ProcessNodelist" manually for the new nodelist to update, however.
Hmmm, well, there's obviously a difference somewhere between our setups
but what it is eludes me right now. Perhaps one day, one of us will find
it.
Regards,
Martin
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