Subj : Errors tryign to reply to a poll message
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Nov 12 2017 08:23 pm

  Re: Errors tryign to reply to a poll message
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Sun Nov 12 2017 07:12 pm

 >   Re: Errors tryign to reply to a poll message
 >   By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Wed Nov 08 2017 10:16 pm
 >
 >  >> After building the debug sbbs3 binaries, I copied them to a test
 >  >> machine, and when I tried running sbbsctrl.exe, I got the error
 >  >> "Incorrect SBBS.DLL version (0)".  I tried copying sbbs.dll to
 >
 >  DM> Anyway... as for the problem at hand: please try a a "release" build of
 >  DM> the DLLs and see if you get the same error. If you do not get the error
 >  DM> with the release DLLs (built by yourself), then I can probably get a
 >  DM> copy of sbbsctrl.exe to you that will work with the debug DLLs (which
 >  DM> is what you realliy want to run with).
 >
 >  DM> But... there are alternatives to sbbsctrl.exe, like sbbs.exe and
 >  DM> sbbsNTsvcs.exe. Have you tried those (built by yourself)?
 >
 > I built the release binaries but still got the same error, "Incorrect
 > SBBS.DLL version (0)".
 >
 > I was able to run sbbs.exe (rather than sbbsctrl.exe).  I tried replying to
 > several messages and it wasn't crashing..  This was on my test setup on
 > Windows 10, and I'm wondering if that might make a difference.   I'm still
 > using Windows XP on my actual BBS machine - I've been thinking of upgrading
 > it, and was going to use Windows 10, but the Windows 10 VM I created for it
 > just seems a bit slow (though it seems to work).

I doubt Windows 10 vs XP is the difference maker. Do both setups share all the
same configuration files?

                                            digital man

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