Subj : Re: Bulletin MPL program
To   : g00r00
From : Dennis Katsonis
Date : Sat Jan 22 2022 10:31 am

-=> g00r00 wrote to Dennis Katsonis <=-

 g0> @MSGID: <61EAECFE.92.fidomystic@bbs.mozysswamp.org>
 g0> @REPLY: <61EA07E7.88.fidomystic@bbs.mozysswamp.org>
 DK> Nothing appears in the error log about this.  I upgraded from A46 to
 DK> A47, and I think this is when this check stopped working.

 g0> Did you follow the update instructions in upgrade.txt for A47?  There
 g0> is a step specifically for the default bulletin MPL program:

 g0>  - If you use the default bulletin system (bulletin.mps) then you
 g0> should
 g0>    replace it with the newer one otherwise you will probably get an
 g0> error
 g0>    trying to compile it:

 g0>       install extract bulletin.mps c:\mystic\themes\default\scripts

 g0>    Afterwards you will need to recompile it using "mplc -t"

 DK> Is there a way to run this MPL program manually?  If I can do that, I
 DK> can see if there is an error or something blocking it from running.  At
 DK> least then, I can start troubleshooting.

 g0> You can run MPL programs from the command line if you wanted to, but
 g0> first lets confirm the above step.  It looks like the upgrade
 g0> instruction steps actually tell you to run "mplc -t" before the step to
 g0> copy over the new bulletin.mps so that could explain it too.

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Thanks, I did follow the instructions.  With a bit more digging I was able to
change a line of code in bulletin.mps to get it to seem to work.  See my later
follow up post.  A bug in bulletin.mps perhaps?

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