jacobson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (R J Jacobson) (12/01/90)
I had to setup tabbynet all over on my BBS (it had been setup by someone else before I got it) It seems to work ok now, but I remember the packes of mail getting saved to the folder where the tabbymaint files get created (ie the config, event, areas.bbs, pointnet, echos, schedule, ect files get put). They now get put at the level of tabbynet instead. Below is a little more of the description of my problem as I sent it to a friend. Are there others who use tabbynet intimately who can tell me if I did something wrong? I did have one question about my setup of Tabby which seemed to work and even got a small packet that was still on my NEC's bbs. When I did the configuration of tabbymaint I had some trouble with the path for the generic file. I tried to choose the tabby folder I created by giving the full path "Avalon BBS:Telefinder Host:Telefinder System:Tabby:" which is where I thought the generic files would go. It would not let me put the generic files there but wanted them at the same level as the BBS program and Tabbynet & associated programs. Thus the generic file was put at the path level of "Avalon BBS:Telefinder Host:Telefinder System:" So when I did the rest of the configuration, setting up of the events, schedule, routing, point net, etc that info still was saved by tabbymaint to the full path that includes the Tabby folder which is what I remember in the second sight bbs I was running before I lost it all. My question has to do with the generic file and where the packets get placed by Tabby during an event. I do seem to remember that the generic file was already in the same level as the Tabbynet and associated programs and the BBS. But I remember that the archived packets that it picks up always got put in the same folder as the config, events, schedule, point net, aka, etc files created by tabbymaint. In the case of my previous BBS they got put one level below tabbynet in the path---- Host:Tabby (tabbynet, and programs were located at the level Host: like second sight was---ie the root level). Since all the tabbymaint created files except generic got put in my tabby folder in the path----------- "Avalon BBS:Telefinder Host:Telefinder System:Tabby:" I assumed that the packets I got last night would get put in the tabby file just like they did in the old setup. But after my forced tabby event last night the archived packet got put at the same level as the Tabby program and generic file rather than one level further down in the Tabby folder. Is something wrong or am I remembering wrong. I always remember that all the mail packets did go in the tabby folder where all the tabbymaint created files went which kept the root level of my RRH/SS BBS clean of the somtimes many packets when I was doing points. So my question to you is do you have any idea why the first mail packet did not get put into the tabby folder in my newly created setup. The config item of tabbymaint seems to be the only place to assign tabby paths so what did I do wrong, or is everything OK? Thanks Russ Jacobson
jacobson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (R J Jacobson) (12/01/90)
Sorry about the long post but I am just learning tabby now from ground up after loosing the original setup given to me by the previous sysop a year ago (thats another story of murphys laws in operation!) Anyway what I was trying to do is get all the mail packets to go into the same folder (named tabby) as the tabbymaint configuration files like config, events, schedule....etc. That is the way it was before I lost the original setup. I was for some reason having trouble in getting the pathname that gets put in the generic file which directs the mail packets for tabby. It now seems I have gotten it. But not after also finding I had ArcMail Extract spelled wrong in the events setup. Hopefully I got the rest right. I have encountered another problem in setup. When I went back to my tabby original disk and the 2.2 update disk I found neither contained Tabbyrobot. Isn't that supposed to be on these disks. It is mentioned in my tabby docs and I used to use it alot. If it is not too much trouble could someone email me a binhexed/stuffed latest version of tabbynet. Right now to do crashmail I am having to play with the events/schedule setup in tabbymaint wich is an awkward way to do things. Thanks to those who have already responded to my post! Russ Jacobson