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Grex > Coop10 > #17: Problems with the state of conferencing on Grex | |
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aruba
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response 50 of 58:
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Dec 5 08:20 UTC 1997 |
A .cflist file is a text file which contains the names of the conferences you
regularly visit on Grex, one conference name per line. When you start up
picospan, it will go to the first conference in the list. If you type "next"
at the "Ok:" prompt, it will go to the next one. If a conference contains no
new responses since the last time you visited it, picospan will skip over it.
The advantage is that you don't have to always remember the conferences you
want to visit each time you log in, and you can keep tabs on quiet conferences
without having to go there each session.
Sri has also written a ".cflist builder" program, which helps you to create
and maintain your .cflist. Someone else better describe that, though.
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valerie
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response 51 of 58:
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Dec 5 14:07 UTC 1997 |
This response has been erased.
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lilmo
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response 52 of 58:
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Dec 17 03:46 UTC 1997 |
My .cflist just stopped working. I log on and find myself in agora (ugh!),
and try to go to the "next" conf, but Grex tells me that I am at the end of my
list, when I've just started!
probably not coincidentally, I also lost paging and the nice response editor
at the same time (the one that automatically wraps lines).
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davel
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response 53 of 58:
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Dec 17 11:36 UTC 1997 |
Did you just create your .cfdir? Your .cflist and .cfonce files are in your
home dir, not in your .cfdir directory. It's a guess - haven't tested it -
but I suspect that if .cfdir exists, then picospan expects these files to be
there.
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remmers
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response 54 of 58:
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Dec 17 12:48 UTC 1997 |
I suspect that's it, since lilmo's .cfdir directory has a
date of Dec. 16, but his .cfonce and .cflist files are much
older and they're in his home directory. Picospan is no
longer seeing them; they have to be moved into .cfdir. Try
this from an 'Ok:' prompt:
unix (gets you to a Unix shell prompt)
mv .cfonce .cflist .cfdir (moves the files)
bbs (restarts Picospan)
Things should now be normal.
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davel
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response 55 of 58:
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Dec 17 22:45 UTC 1997 |
Won't that leave you with Picospan being run twice? Or is does "unix" exec
a shell instead of spawning it?
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dang
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response 56 of 58:
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Dec 17 23:28 UTC 1997 |
"unix" exec's a shell, instead of spawning it.
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lilmo
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response 57 of 58:
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Dec 17 23:33 UTC 1997 |
OK, I did that. But it didn't seem to change at the same time I added the
new .cfdir directory. I seem to recall that it worked as it had before
for several logins. *shrug* I'll go test to see if it worked.
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lilmo
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response 58 of 58:
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Dec 18 01:31 UTC 1997 |
It seems to be working now; thanks!!
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