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Grex Backtalk Item 16: FrontTalk questions
Entered by hash on Thu Jan 16 15:22:52 UTC 2003:

I have some questions about Fronttalk.  I'll put them here.  
tell me if there is some better place to put them.

8 responses total.

#1 of 8 by hash on Thu Jan 16 15:28:09 2003:

Ok: read last
No items found in range
but, 'read all last' works okay.  is that how picospan works?

my main questions were about how conference setup files are read.
I have some really wacky stuff in my .cfonce and .cfrc on m-net, 
when I start backtalk, I get tons of errors from them, but I also see
that it's reading my grex configuration files.  does it read them both?
is there a .fronttalkrc or something?

In my grex .cfonce or .cfrc files, I forget, I have colors set up for my iseps
and rseps.  these work fine when I'm logged into grex, but somehow they're
getting displayed as text when I read via fronttalk.  in my .cfonce on m-net,
I have a pager defined that should pass the colors okay...
I should check to see which pager is running when i'm actually paging
an item :)


it seems like my .cfonce and .cfrc files shouldn't be read at all until after
I log into an account with fronttalk, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

#2 of 8 by tonster on Thu Jan 16 23:27:17 2003:

the Backtalk conference may be a better place for this.  perhaps it 
should be linked.

#3 of 8 by hash on Mon Jan 20 02:33:12 2003:

this isn't the backtalk conference?

#4 of 8 by janc on Mon Jan 20 04:56:33 2003:

This turned out to be a bug in the "favorites" code.  When it rearranges
 item range (like "1-3,4,16,$") to put the favorite items first, it was
mishandling $ signs which were not part of a dashed range, like '1-$'. 
A "read last" is just a "read $".

There will be a fix for this in backtalk 1.2.6, whenever I release that.

#5 of 8 by hash on Mon Jan 20 19:28:02 2003:

okay, what about the other issue?  I was wrong above, this doesn't happen
until *after* I log in, but still, it happens.

if I'm running frontalk on m-net and trying to log into grex, it gives me a
bunch of errors from my cfrc/cfonce settings on m-net.
it doesn't seem like my .cfonce and .cfrc files should affect how I'm reading
things remotely.

#6 of 8 by tonster on Wed Jan 22 07:17:01 2003:

resp:3: I thought it was the test conference.  In backtalk the
conference is listed as 'This is a Test'.  I was wrong.

#7 of 8 by janc on Sat Feb 8 16:28:24 2003:

I'll need to take some time to investigate this.

There are a lot of unresolved issues with .cfonce and .cfrc.  If you are
on Grex, reading M-Net's conference, which should apply?  Your Grex
.cfrc or your M-Net .cfrc or both?  If both, which should override
which?

I haven't figured out how it should work.  It's definately a part of
fronttalk that needs work.

There could also be some issues with control characters in .cfrc files.

#8 of 8 by noiz on Mon May 24 19:21:09 2004:

actually dont know which to chooseout of the two, buti think it shoulkd be
the grex that would override the other

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