Re: FIDOIN event issue
By: RickV to Digital Man on Wed Apr 29 2026 08:41 pm
>
> Hello Digital!
>
> 29 Apr 26 22:41, you wrote to me:
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> DM> Re: FIDOIN event issue
> DM> By: RickV to All on Wed Apr 29 2026 06:31 pm
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> >> Hello everybody!
>
> >> In my FIDOIN event I have a java script that I created that runs a
> >> couple of other things and tosses the mail, but when it runs it
> >> opens a normal sized window on the PC instead if being minimized.
> >> This seems to have started a few months ago and I can't figure out
> >> why. Anyone have a thought on this? It
> >> was minimized in the taskbar before.
>
> >> Windows 11/64 Pro
> >> Synchronet 3.21e
>
> DM> How do you have the FIDOIN event configured in SCFG?
>
> DM> Do you have Options = XTRN_MINIMIZED (likely with other option flags)
> DM> in the [bbs] section of your ctrl/sbbs.ini file? This correlates with
> DM> the "Minimize externals" checkbox in the SBBSCTRL->Terminal
> DM> Server->Config dialog.
> My cfg for FIDOIN is this
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nFXgwiUtN5oj-wLLuyHqldBJ-wFLPa36/view?usp=s
> har ing
That's text, so you should be able to just select/copy and paste into a messaage
(in the future).
>
> And I also un-commented the XTRN_MINIMIZE in th sbbs.ini, but it still oper
> the window in normal mode.
So that command-line ("?copy_inbound.js") runs in-process, it's not "external".
So I'm guessing that whatever copy_inbound.js is doing is what is opening a wind
ow on your desktop. So the next obvious question would be, what's in copy_inboun
d.js?
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