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  • src/sbbs3/prntfile.cpp

    From Rob Swindell (on Windows 11)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Monday, February 03, 2025 18:56:14
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/ca77086526440a723dfd30e7
    Modified Files:
    src/sbbs3/prntfile.cpp
    Log Message:
    Fix random menu/display file selection when some files can't be displayed

    When one or more files that match the menu file pattern can't be displayed (e.g. the user's terminal is not wide enough or there's any other menu file open/read error), pick another random menu file and try displaying that one, until either a menu file has been displayed successfully or all files
    (matching the pattern) have been attempted.

    For example, you have text/menu/random1.c80.msg and random2.msg, if the first file (random1.c80.msg) is selected at random but the user's terminal isn't
    at least 80 columns wide, another file will be picked at random. Since only random2.msg remains in the list (matching the pattern "random*"), that's the only file that will always be displayed.

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  • From Rob Swindell (on Windows 11)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Tuesday, April 08, 2025 16:52:07
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/b6cebf82986e178a0594a09f
    Modified Files:
    src/sbbs3/prntfile.cpp
    Log Message:
    Disable Celerity "pipe code" parsing when displaying ".rip" files

    RIP sequences conflict with Celerity pipe codes, so don't convert them to
    color codes (even when enabled in SCFG->Systems->Extra Attribute Codes...).

    We *used* to disable all pipe code parsing when sending to a RIP-enabled terminal but since we don't do that any longer, this is a better/cleaner fix.

    Renegade "pipe codes" (|xx where xx are decimal digits) don't "seem" to conflict with any RIP sequences (so leave that parsing enabled for .rip files) but Deuce can help me to be sure about that (please).

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  • From Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Saturday, May 03, 2025 16:51:17
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/3a3e4dbd316f60e5ffd784bb
    Modified Files:
    src/sbbs3/prntfile.cpp
    Log Message:
    Resolve relative menu/../* to absolute path before checking for file existence

    On *nix, fexist("../mods/text/menu/../filename") would fail unless the mods/text/menu sub-directory existed. It works on Windows fine however.

    This resolves issue #918, reported by Keyop - thank you!

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  • From Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Saturday, May 03, 2025 22:47:05
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/8506c2b64aed65e0c62c0f77
    Modified Files:
    src/sbbs3/prntfile.cpp
    Log Message:
    Fix bug in random_menu() introduce in previous commit

    Broke random menu/display files - we needed another temp variable here.

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  • From Rob Swindell (on Windows 11)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Saturday, January 10, 2026 20:48:55
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/e431df49dafd001973b3a83d
    Modified Files:
    src/sbbs3/prntfile.cpp
    Log Message:
    Don't attempt to print an emtpy filename, just return false

    Doing so would result in trying to open the ctrl_dir as a file which would either fail (possibly after several retries, delays) or just display nothing (e.g. if the ctrl dir was symlink)

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  • From Rob Swindell (on Windows 11)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Wednesday, January 28, 2026 12:52:53
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/bb1bea3ae8836742dd520efa
    Modified Files:
    src/sbbs3/prntfile.cpp
    Log Message:
    Address some Coverity issues and one new GCC warning

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  • From Rob Swindell (on Windows 11)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Wednesday, January 28, 2026 20:44:36
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/473121cdc8fdaf68f5aafc57
    Modified Files:
    src/sbbs3/prntfile.cpp
    Log Message:
    Don't limit line-read-length to the console width when P_TRUNCATE mode is used

    Ctrl-A (and other attribute) codes don't print, but do count as chars in a line, so this is basically a work-around for using P_SEEK with color-encoded files. Just know that lines longer than the terminal is wide are going to be chopped (that's what the P_TRUNCATE mode flag does). This is not really expected to be functional for ANSI files.

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  • From Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Saturday, January 31, 2026 15:22:04
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/1bea7cc6aa25b656c070fd57
    Modified Files:
    src/sbbs3/prntfile.cpp
    Log Message:
    Use fread() instead of read() to printfile (in P_OPENCLOSE mode)

    After reading a file's SAUCE record and seeking around (with fseek), a read() (on the file *descriptor*, not the stream) will fail, but only on *nix.
    Use fread() instead of read() to fix this.

    This fixes issue #1060, bug recently introduced in commit 29213fde9f24d62b7e20 (reading/using SAUCE records in display files). Thanks Keyop! I had a few of these errors recently logged as well but chalked it up to something
    ephemeral and not reproducible. It was 100% reproducible.

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  • From Rob Swindell (on Windows 11)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Saturday, January 31, 2026 15:23:16
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/cbf76a27407fa7b2bb709330
    Modified Files:
    src/sbbs3/prntfile.cpp
    Log Message:
    Better range checking of SAUCE width (columns) value, if specified

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  • From Rob Swindell (on Windows 11)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Sunday, February 01, 2026 14:50:32
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/72d3e6bec2888bd65ef6b973
    Modified Files:
    src/sbbs3/prntfile.cpp
    Log Message:
    Fixed printfile(..., P_SEEK) percentage complete indicator

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