Stuck on an issue?

Lightrun Answers was designed to reduce the constant googling that comes with debugging 3rd party libraries. It collects links to all the places you might be looking at while hunting down a tough bug.

And, if you’re still stuck at the end, we’re happy to hop on a call to see how we can help out.

Error on qwk export with oputil

See original GitHub issue

Short problem description

Using oputil to export qwk packet results in an error…

This command: ./oputil.js mb qwk-export /home/robbiew/test.qwk

result:

/home/robbiew/enigma-bbs/core/ftn_util.js:381
    const ident = chrs.split(' ')[0].toUpperCase();
                       ^

TypeError: chrs.split is not a function
    at getEncodingFromCharacterSetIdentifier (/home/robbiew/enigma-bbs/core/ftn_util.js:381:24)
    at QWKPacketWriter._getEncoding (/home/robbiew/enigma-bbs/core/qwk_mail_packet.js:1093:24)
    at QWKPacketWriter.appendMessage (/home/robbiew/enigma-bbs/core/qwk_mail_packet.js:1029:31)
    at /home/robbiew/enigma-bbs/core/oputil/oputil_message_base.js:600:40
    at /home/robbiew/enigma-bbs/core/message.js:654:24
    at /home/robbiew/enigma-bbs/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:2955:19
    at wrapper (/home/robbiew/enigma-bbs/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:268:20)
    at replenish (/home/robbiew/enigma-bbs/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:435:29)
    at iterateeCallback (/home/robbiew/enigma-bbs/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:424:21)
    at /home/robbiew/enigma-bbs/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:321:20

Here’s my setup in config.hjson:

 messageNetworks: {
        qwk: {
             areas: {
                general: {          // local ENiGMA½ area tag
                    conference: 1   // conference number to map to
                }
                fsx_gen: {          
                    conference: 2  
                }
                fsx_mys: {          
                    conference: 3  
                }
                fsx_mag: {          
                    conference: 4  
                }
                fsx_bbs: {          
                    conference: 5  
                }
                fsx_eng: {          
                    conference: 6  
                }
                fsx_ham: {          
                    conference: 7  
                }
                fsx_cry: {          
                    conference: 8  
                }
                fsx_net: {          
                    conference: 9  
                }
                fsx_bot: {          
                    conference: 10  
                }
                fsx_dat: {          
                    conference: 11  
                }
            }
        }

Environment

I am using Node.js v12.x LTS or higher
npm install or yarn reports success
Actual Node.js version (node --version): 12.18.3
Operating system (uname -a on *nix systems): Linux 4.15.0-115-generic #116-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 26 14:04:49 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Revision (git rev-parse --short HEAD): git rev-parse --short HEAD