Hello August!

## 27.05.19 at 19:23, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 AA>>> 05/26/2019  05:13 PM     4,294,967,371 FIDOTEST.JHR
 AA>>> 05/26/2019  05:13 PM                32 FIDOTEST.JLR

 MF>> Yep, same thing happened with me after deleting a bunch of messages.
 MF>> ---------- 8< ----------
 MF>> 27/05/2019  09:52     4,294,967,371 points.jhr
 MF>> ---------- 8< ----------

 MF>> Oh Joy! :-(

 AA> Looks like JAM is not doeable with SEM.  Thank's for confirming the same
 AA> problem.

No bother.

 AA>>> The above problem does NOT happen with a Squish base.

 MF>> I've seen enough with the huge .jhr file, thanks.

 AA> You're giving up because of broken of JAM support in SEM?   Why not try
 AA> Squish?

Although I may have implied that I was giving up, that's not the case  
at all. As soon as time permits, I'll be investigating the possibilty  
of bolting on the husky stuff.

 AA> Meanwhile I found this little gem, but sadly it fails:

Ah well, it was worth a try.

[snip]
 AA> Do you know of any other messagebase converters out there?

Sorry but no I don't, as I've never needed one.

 MF>> If you still have Fido Package Deluxe installed..

 AA> I do.

Great! :-)

 MF>> ...all the husky stuff
 MF>> is in there. There's everything you want(and more) in \Binkley\hpt
 MF>> including an already configured and working hpt config file. Just copy
 MF>> it all over to your SemPoint setup and then change the paths in the
 MF>> hpt config file accordingly. There may be other bits 'n bobs that need
 MF>> editing too.

 AA> I don't think I have the stamina to patch SEM with husky stuff.

Oh? 

 AA> I looks like FPD creates the "config" based on the settings in the main
 AA> program.  I don't think I would want to re-edit that file each time there
 AA> is a change to the echo list.   

If you copy all that stuff from your FPD setup into your SEM setup and  
change all the paths etc. to suit your SEM setup, you may not need to  
re-edit the file every time a new area arrives. There's a utility in  
there(fconf2golded.exe) which will create a golded areas file from the  
husky config file:

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c:\Users\martin\Fido\Binkley\hpt>fconf2golded
fconf2golded/w32-wc 1.3.0-cur 05-02-03

Usage:
   fconf2golded [-a][-sn][-se][-sl][-sb][-sd] <goldedConfigFileName>    
   [<default.cfg>]
>--^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>--This should be on the end of the line above.

   (you may read config defaults from default.cfg)
   (-a exports areas only)
   (-sn skip netmail areas)
   (-se skip echomail areas)
   (-sl skip local areas, and so on...)

Example:
   fconf2golded ~/golded/golded.cfg
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SEM is supposed to be capable of using a golded areas file but we all  
know what happened when I tried this with crashmail's similar utility.  
However, I used that on a JAM message base, perhaps better results  
would be achieved on a squish message base with fconf2golded.

 AA> Fastecho seems more practical at this juncture.

OK, fine.

Regards,
Martin

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