Subj : tickfix debug mode?
To   : Rampage
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun May 03 2020 01:03 pm

  Re: tickfix debug mode?
  By: Rampage to digital man on Sun May 03 2020 09:15 am

 > is there a tickfix.js debug mode? if so, where can i enable it?

There is a '-debug' option, but it doesn't do what you think it does. Right now, all it does is prevent tickfix from deleting the requests after they've been processed. I'll probably rename that option.

 > i ask because i'm seeing tickfix generated messages with the following style
 > errors being reported to the sender of the tickfix request...
 >
 >   !Unrecognized area-tag or command on 1:3634/12: '+BACKBONE '
 >   !Unrecognized area-tag or command on 1:3634/12: '+BBSLISTS '
 >   !Unrecognized area-tag or command on 1:3634/12: '+MYSTIC   '
 >   !Unrecognized area-tag or command on 1:3634/12: '+MYS_MOD  '

Well those messages were enough for me to see exactly what the problem was. I'm glad I put quotes around those lines so I could see the trailing white-space characters! :-)

 > but i'm unable to find/see the original message that tickfix is responding
 > to... it is not in my mail base or in my ftn/netmail directory as a msg file
 > so i have no way to look at it and see what the sender may have done to
 > cause these problem reports...

Did smbutil run since that request was processed? If not, I would expect the message to still be in the mail base with a DELETE attribute set.

 > the above areas do exist in my file base and in my tickit.ini file...

Gotcha.

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