Language Configuration

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Language Configuration

[wwiv]

A couple questions:

1. How did you populate the directory structure? Did you extract a WWIV 4.30, or use the WWIV 5.00 zip file?
2. Are you working off of the Installing WWIV on Linux information?
3. Is the actual message "MENU : Unable to open Menu", or something else?

There are a few potential reasons:

1. Your pathing is wrong - The path for both, based on your info, should probably be /home/wwiv/gfiles/
2. Your path is missing - Init on linux does not extract the en-menus.zip file. You have to do that yourself.
3. Your filename case is wrong - There's a known issue with a lot of files where the code expects UPPER.lower, but you probably have lower.lower filenames

Original comment by: granitepenguin

[wwiv]

1. I copied over the bbs/admin directory from the SVN repository.
2. Yes. I'm using Linux.
3. MENU : Unable to open Menu

Original comment by: ignatius33

[wwiv]

Ok. I think I fixed it. I ln -s'd the files in the menu directory to upper.lower format. Thanks for the tip.

Original comment by: ignatius33

[wwiv]

ok, the bbs/admin directory doesn't have everything you need. It's missing the gfiles contents. You will be better off expanding the build zip file from http://build.wwiv.us/job/WWIV/186/artifact/archives/wwiv-build-484-186.zip
in your base WWIV directory, then extracting the en-menus.zip in your /home/wwiv/gfiles directory. That will get you the right files in the right place. You still need the linux compiled binaries; the contents of the build zip file are the Windows binaries. Expanding the zip file will not overwrite your existing linux binaries.

You will still need to address the Upper.lower name issue. There's a pretty long list of broken filenames at the moment, but changing /home/wwiv/gfiles/menus/wwiv/xfer.* to XFER.lower (eg, xfer.mnu to XFER.mnu) should get you your Transfer menu. You can either link the file (soft or hard), or flat out change the name. This is an area that still has a lot of work to be done.

Another place that needs symlinking is in /home/wwiv/gfiles. all the *.msg files need to be changed (eg, mbslash.msg to MBSLASH.MSG)

Original comment by: granitepenguin

[wwiv]

• assigned_to: David Rock

Original comment by: wwiv

[wwiv]

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Original comment by: granitepenguin