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    From Carlos Navarro@2:341/234.1 to Alan Ianson on Tue Mar 26 18:44:58 2024
    25 Sep 2022 02:28, you wrote to Ward Dossche:

    D'Bridge always handled freqqing perfectly in times of PSTN but, I
    assume, has no sollution when the FRQ arrives via binkd.

    Binkd will handle file requests with the help of an SRIF helper.

    A simple one I know of for windows and linux is FREQ-U and there are others. This is handled when binkd receives a *.REQ file. It may or
    may not need any changes to D'Bridge to work.

    I've been playing a bit with D'Bridge and Freq-U.
    I managed to make it work, though I had to edit DBRIDGE.BNK and change:

    domain fidonet DATA/FIDONET 2

    to:

    domain fidonet C:/DB/DATA/FIDONET 2

    With the default, non-absolute path, Freq-U stopped with an error.

    The problem is that DB will generate DBRIDGE.BNK again and the change will be lost.

    Carlos

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  • From Carlos Navarro@2:341/234.426 to All on Tue Mar 26 19:41:14 2024
    I said...

    I've been playing a bit with D'Bridge and Freq-U.
    I managed to make it work, though I had to edit DBRIDGE.BNK and change:

    domain fidonet DATA/FIDONET 2

    to:

    domain fidonet C:/DB/DATA/FIDONET 2

    With the default, non-absolute path, Freq-U stopped with an error.

    The problem is that DB will generate DBRIDGE.BNK again and the change
    will be lost.

    Another option is just putting Freq-U and its config file in the C:\DB directory. This way relative path is not a problem.

    Carlos

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Carlos Navarro on Tue Mar 26 13:33:28 2024
    With the default, non-absolute path, Freq-U stopped with an error.

    The problem is that DB will generate DBRIDGE.BNK again and the change
    will be lost.

    Another option is just putting Freq-U and its config file in the C:\DB directory. This way relative path is not a problem.

    Good stuff.

    That's a handy utility for nodes who want to make their filebase requestable.

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