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cybergod
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Number Command?
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Sep 23 20:10 UTC 1996 |
Can someone help me? This may be an idiotic question, but what is the command
to assign a new number to an item in any bbs?
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robh
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response 1 of 14:
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Sep 23 20:18 UTC 1996 |
Er, there isn't one as far as I know.
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russ
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response 2 of 14:
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Sep 23 22:05 UTC 1996 |
Wrong conference, too.
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bjorn
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response 3 of 14:
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Sep 24 14:15 UTC 1996 |
Goto Info. Do Not collect 200 pseudodollars.
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birdlady
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response 4 of 14:
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Sep 24 15:45 UTC 1996 |
<grins at bjorn>
Assign a new number to a response? Why would you want to do that? Just out
of curiosity...
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tsty
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response 5 of 14:
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Sep 24 18:20 UTC 1996 |
either general or info confrerences are a better place to ask, thak you.
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popcorn
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response 6 of 14:
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Sep 24 19:08 UTC 1996 |
I'm guessing that maybe this is actually a question about how to link an item
from one conference to another? In that case, the answer is that the fair
witness of the conference the item will be linked *to*, needs to go to that
conference and type "linkfrom confname itemnumber" (where "confname" is the
name of the conference to link from, and "itemnumber" is the item to link).
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cybergod
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response 7 of 14:
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Sep 24 19:12 UTC 1996 |
No, my other fairwitness killed some items, now the numbers are all out of
order. I just wanted to be neat!
Sorry if this is the wrong conference, I couldn't thnk of anywhere else to
put it.
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birdlady
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response 8 of 14:
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Sep 25 13:11 UTC 1996 |
Oh now I see... You want the browse list to be in numerical order as opposed
to now seeing 1, 2, 45, 56, 71, 89, etc. Right?
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davel
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response 9 of 14:
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Sep 25 14:05 UTC 1996 |
The word for that is "restart".
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remmers
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response 10 of 14:
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Sep 25 14:19 UTC 1996 |
Right -- make a new copy of the conference, link all the items
in the old conference over (they'll automatically get
consecutive numbers at that point, which is what you want), then
remove the old copy of the conference.
Cfadm has to do restarts -- fw's can't do them on their own. I'd
suggest sending mail to cfadm with the request if that's what
you want to do. If the conference has more than one fw, all the
fw's should agree that they want to do this.
HOWEVER, a drawback to doing this is that everybody's
participation file will become obsolete; Picospan will think
that nobody's read any items, and participants will end up
re-reading stuff that they've already read. For this reason, you
might not want to do a restart and just live with the non-
consecutively-numbered items.
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russ
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response 11 of 14:
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Sep 25 23:15 UTC 1996 |
Moral: Stop being obsessed with neatness over functionality.
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bjorn
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response 12 of 14:
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Sep 26 03:07 UTC 1996 |
Moral, form AEsop's son: Have the conference restarted and then tell the
participants to use the fixseen command.
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tsty
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response 13 of 14:
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Sep 26 07:42 UTC 1996 |
hmmmmmmmmm, it appears taht i mis-read someting back there before #5.
based on #6 and #7, coop.cf is a fine place for this discussion.
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adbarr
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response 14 of 14:
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Sep 28 01:53 UTC 1996 |
Cybergod -- don't sweat it. Some of the 'old folks' her get a littl crotchity
in their responses. Learning which conf. is the "right" conference takes a
little testing. Heck fire. I have made worse mistakes on HVCN. I am still
alive! "'Course I had to kill some chickens etc. in appeasement, but --
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