• File FReq

    From Black Panther@21:1/186 to All on Wed Sep 9 19:08:44 2020
    Hi All,

    I've been working on setting up File Request (FReq) capabilities on Castle Rock. If someone could FReq one of the following Aliases from my system, I would appreciate it. Please let me know if it works.

    FSXNET Current fsxNet Infopack
    MYSTIC_W64 Current MysticBBS Win64
    MYSTIC_W32 Current MysticBBS Win32
    MYSTIC_L64 Current MysticBBS Linux64
    MYSTIC_L32 Current MysticBBS Linux32
    MYSTIC_O64 Current MysticBBS OSX64
    MYSTIC_O32 Current MysticBBS OSX32
    MYSTIC_PI Current MysticBBS RPi

    Thanks,


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    http://www.castlerockbbs.com
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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Black Panther on Wed Sep 9 21:56:00 2020
    Hello Black!

    ** On Wednesday 09.09.20 - 15:08, Black Panther wrote to All:

    I've been working on setting up File Request (FReq) capabilities on
    Castle Rock. If someone could FReq one of the following Aliases from my system, I would appreciate it. Please let me know if it works.

    I did this one:

    MYSTIC_W32 Current MysticBBS Win32


    = 17:53:30 CONNECT
    17:53:31 OPT CRAM-MD5-88405703934314605a42bc3221330eee
    17:53:31 SYS Castle Rock BBS
    17:53:31 ZYZ Dan Richter
    17:53:31 LOC Rio Rancho, NM
    17:53:31 NDL 115200,TCP,BINKP
    17:53:31 TIME Wed, 9 Sep 2020 15:53:30 -0600
    17:53:31 VER binkd/1.1a-99/Linux binkp/1.1
    17:53:31 OPT EXTCMD GZ BZ2
    17:53:31 non-secure
    * 17:53:32 Sent 000100BA.REQ, 12b
    * 17:53:44 Rcvd mys112a46_w32.rar, 969148b
    * 17:53:44 Rcvd 5f594edb.pkt, 515b
    = 17:53:44 hangup
    - 17:53:44 exiting

    Seemed to go very well.



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    ../|ug

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  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Ogg on Wed Sep 9 20:02:16 2020
    On 09 Sep 2020, Ogg said the following...

    I've been working on setting up File Request (FReq) capabilities on Castle Rock. If someone could FReq one of the following Aliases from system, I would appreciate it. Please let me know if it works.

    Seemed to go very well.

    Oh good... I've been having to rewrite the source code to get this thing working right. :)

    Now to get more aliases set up. All other files should be available via filenames already.

    Thanks for checking it out.


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    Black Panther(RCS)
    aka Dan Richter
    Castle Rock BBS
    telnet://bbs.castlerockbbs.com
    http://www.castlerockbbs.com
    http://github.com/DRPanther
    The sparrows are flying again...

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  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Black Panther on Wed Sep 9 19:16:00 2020
    Hi All,

    I've been working on setting up File Request (FReq) capabilities on Castle Rock. If someone could FReq one of the following Aliases from my system, I would appreciate it. Please let me know if it works.

    It's working.. :)

    I grabbed FSXNET and MYSTIC_L64 from 1:317/3. Those requests are case sensitive.

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  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Al on Wed Sep 9 20:27:12 2020
    On 09 Sep 2020, Al said the following...

    I've been working on setting up File Request (FReq) capabilities on Cast Rock. If someone could FReq one of the following Aliases from my system, would appreciate it. Please let me know if it works.

    It's working.. :)

    Great! Two days of working on this, and it's finally working! :)

    I grabbed FSXNET and MYSTIC_L64 from 1:317/3. Those requests are case sensitive.

    Yes, I did notice that. I've been playing around with the source code to see
    if I can change it.

    Thanks for testing.


    ---

    Black Panther(RCS)
    aka Dan Richter
    Castle Rock BBS
    telnet://bbs.castlerockbbs.com
    http://www.castlerockbbs.com
    http://github.com/DRPanther
    The sparrows are flying again...

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    * Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)
  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Black Panther on Wed Sep 9 19:43:18 2020
    Great! Two days of working on this, and it's finally working! :)

    It's not easy to setup with binkd.

    I grabbed FSXNET and MYSTIC_L64 from 1:317/3. Those requests are case
    sensitive.

    Yes, I did notice that. I've been playing around with the source code to see if I can change it.

    I have never played with vireq but mfreq is another good option. It has an "AnyCase" option you can use to make freq's case insensitive.

    I think I spent a couple days (or weeks, I forget!) to get it setup.

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  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Al on Wed Sep 9 20:48:26 2020
    On 09 Sep 2020, Al said the following...

    Great! Two days of working on this, and it's finally working! :)

    It's not easy to setup with binkd.

    Getting it to work with binkd was the easy part. It was having to rewrite
    code to get everything working in vireq that was the fun part. :)

    I have never played with vireq but mfreq is another good option. It has
    an "AnyCase" option you can use to make freq's case insensitive.

    I was working on mfreq for awhile as well, but was having some issues there too. Maybe I'll see if I can get that working, and have options. ;)


    ---

    Black Panther(RCS)
    aka Dan Richter
    Castle Rock BBS
    telnet://bbs.castlerockbbs.com
    http://www.castlerockbbs.com
    http://github.com/DRPanther
    The sparrows are flying again...

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/25 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)
  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Black Panther on Wed Sep 9 19:57:56 2020
    I was working on mfreq for awhile as well, but was having some issues there too. Maybe I'll see if I can get that working, and have options. ;)

    mfreq also has "SmartMagic" that makes life so much simpler for freqs that change filenames often, like nodelists.

    I'll send you a netmail in a few minutes along with my cfgs for you to ponder if that interests you.

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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to Black Panther on Wed Sep 9 21:15:26 2020
    On 09 Sep 2020, Black Panther said the following...

    If someone could FReq one of the following Aliases from my system, I
    would appreciate it. Please let me know if it works.

    Ok, so dumb question: How does one FREQ a file? I've been BBS'ing since the late 90's and that's one thing I've never done either as a user or a SysOp.

    Jay

    ... ELI5

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Black Panther on Thu Sep 10 15:56:07 2020
    On 09 Sep 2020 at 03:08p, Black Panther pondered and said...

    I've been working on setting up File Request (FReq) capabilities on
    Castle Rock. If someone could FReq one of the following Aliases from my system, I would appreciate it. Please let me know if it works.

    I'll be coming to you for help with this soon also!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Warpslide on Wed Sep 9 21:58:42 2020
    On 09 Sep 2020, Warpslide said the following...

    If someone could FReq one of the following Aliases from my system, I would appreciate it. Please let me know if it works.

    Ok, so dumb question: How does one FREQ a file? I've been BBS'ing
    since the late 90's and that's one thing I've never done either as a
    user or a SysOp.

    Nope, not a dumb question. There's no such thing as a dumb questions. Dumb answers on the other hand... ;)

    Just create a text file with the Magic name in it. So, if you wanted the
    Mystic Linux/64 file, you would make a text file with just: MYSTIC_L64

    Save the file as something like 02290664.req, and send it to my fido address (1:317/3). The filename is just your fido net and node, and needs to have the .req or .REQ file extension.

    If everything works right, and it should, you will get the file you
    requested, along with a netmail message giving you the confirmation it was processed and sent.

    I had to ask the same question a couple years ago. When I ran a board in the 90s, I didn't even freq files, so I had no idea either. :)


    ---

    Black Panther(RCS)
    aka Dan Richter
    Castle Rock BBS
    telnet://bbs.castlerockbbs.com
    http://www.castlerockbbs.com
    http://github.com/DRPanther
    The sparrows are flying again...

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    * Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)
  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Avon on Wed Sep 9 22:03:40 2020
    On 10 Sep 2020, Avon said the following...

    I've been working on setting up File Request (FReq) capabilities on Castle Rock. If someone could FReq one of the following Aliases from system, I would appreciate it. Please let me know if it works.

    I'll be coming to you for help with this soon also!

    I figured it was time. Now that we're in the 21st century, I need to get up
    to speed on 20th century technology... ;)

    It's really not too bad to get working with binkd. I'm not sure how it would work with Mystic as the mailer... Perhaps running ViReq or MFreq as a timed event... I'll have to play around with that setup.

    Whenever your ready, I'll do what I can to help you out. :)


    ---

    Black Panther(RCS)
    aka Dan Richter
    Castle Rock BBS
    telnet://bbs.castlerockbbs.com
    http://www.castlerockbbs.com
    http://github.com/DRPanther
    The sparrows are flying again...

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/25 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Black Panther on Thu Sep 10 16:05:32 2020
    On 09 Sep 2020 at 05:58p, Black Panther pondered and said...

    Save the file as something like 02290664.req, and send it to my fido address (1:317/3). The filename is just your fido net and node, and
    needs to have the .req or .REQ file extension.

    so does the software need to have a valid system sending these requests? I'm still a bit befuddled by how you would name such req files?

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Black Panther on Thu Sep 10 16:07:56 2020
    On 09 Sep 2020 at 06:03p, Black Panther pondered and said...

    It's really not too bad to get working with binkd. I'm not sure how it would work with Mystic as the mailer... Perhaps running ViReq or MFreq
    as a timed event... I'll have to play around with that setup.

    Whenever your ready, I'll do what I can to help you out. :)

    Thanks, I think let's not worry about Mystic and instead focus on BinkD. I'll be in touch :)

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    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Avon on Wed Sep 9 22:22:38 2020
    On 10 Sep 2020, Avon said the following...

    Save the file as something like 02290664.req, and send it to my fido address (1:317/3). The filename is just your fido net and node, and needs to have the .req or .REQ file extension.

    so does the software need to have a valid system sending these requests? I'm still a bit befuddled by how you would name such req files?

    It's just a way that you wouldn't have to worry about someone else connecting at the same time with a file request, and both using 'file.req' for example. The name really doesn't matter, except for the .req or .REQ as the extension. That's all the system is looking for.

    What happens, is your system would send the file to mine, and while you were still connected, it would send you both the file, and a netmail packet. Most
    of the information the program uses, is obtained from binkd, and the
    connection information it passes to the program in the SRIF file.


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    Black Panther(RCS)
    aka Dan Richter
    Castle Rock BBS
    telnet://bbs.castlerockbbs.com
    http://www.castlerockbbs.com
    http://github.com/DRPanther
    The sparrows are flying again...

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    * Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)
  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Avon on Wed Sep 9 22:23:08 2020
    On 10 Sep 2020, Avon said the following...

    It's really not too bad to get working with binkd. I'm not sure how i would work with Mystic as the mailer... Perhaps running ViReq or MFre as a timed event... I'll have to play around with that setup.

    Whenever your ready, I'll do what I can to help you out. :)

    Thanks, I think let's not worry about Mystic and instead focus on BinkD. I'll be in touch :)

    Sounds like a plan. ;)


    ---

    Black Panther(RCS)
    aka Dan Richter
    Castle Rock BBS
    telnet://bbs.castlerockbbs.com
    http://www.castlerockbbs.com
    http://github.com/DRPanther
    The sparrows are flying again...

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/25 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Black Panther on Thu Sep 10 16:27:44 2020

    On 09 Sep 2020 at 06:22p, Black Panther pondered and said...

    It's just a way that you wouldn't have to worry about someone else connecting at the same time with a file request, and both using
    'file.req' for example. The name really doesn't matter, except for the .req or .REQ as the extension. That's all the system is looking for.

    ah OK, cool. Yeah fairly low risk of that happening I think but
    understandable to have such a system.

    What happens, is your system would send the file to mine, and while you were still connected, it would send you both the file, and a netmail packet. Most of the information the program uses, is obtained from
    binkd, and the connection information it passes to the program in the
    SRIF file.

    Gotcha.

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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to Avon on Thu Sep 10 01:00:28 2020
    On 10 Sep 2020, Avon said the following...

    so does the software need to have a valid system sending these requests? I'm still a bit befuddled by how you would name such req files?

    I thought I would just send a netmail with a file attached or something, but I just hit a roadblock when Mystic wouldn't let me attach a file. Maybe
    there's another method with bink to send files?

    Jay

    ... Only small babies are delivered by stork, the big ones need a crane.

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    * Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Warpslide on Fri Sep 11 01:09:41 2020
    On 09 Sep 2020 at 09:00p, Warpslide pondered and said...

    I thought I would just send a netmail with a file attached or something, but I just hit a roadblock when Mystic wouldn't let me attach a file. Maybe there's another method with bink to send files?

    There's this option in message base settings for allowing attachment but I've never played with it much.

    █▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Message Settings

    █ List Compression │ Yes
    █ List Columns │ 2
    █ Show Message Header │ Yes
    █ Bases in Group List │ Yes
    █ Max AutoSig Lines │ 4
    █ Force NL Match │ No
    █ Extended Reply ACS │
    █ Attachment ACS │ s255

    The other idea would be if it's a node you have defined as an echomail node
    set up a filebox for it and put the file in there so it sends when you poll
    it.

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  • From Underminer@21:4/103 to Warpslide on Thu Sep 10 07:52:07 2020
    Re: Re: File FReq
    By: Warpslide to Avon on Wed Sep 09 2020 09:00 pm

    but I just hit a roadblock when Mystic wouldn't let me attach a file. Maybe there's another method with bink to send files?

    Create a file named "<destinationnodehex>.ilo" in the appropriate bink outbound directory, for contents put "^<pathtofile>"
    ===
    Underminer - The Undermine BBS
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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to Avon on Thu Sep 10 12:40:37 2020
    On 10 Sep 2020, Avon said the following...

    There's this option in message base settings for allowing attachment but I've never played with it much.

    Attachment ACS │ s255

    Yup, I believe that must be the default as that's what mine is set to. I
    just don't see any option for attaching files when composing a netmail
    message. I may shoot g00r00 a message over on Fidonet to see if I'm missing something.

    The other idea would be if it's a node you have defined as an echomail node set up a filebox for it and put the file in there so it sends when you poll it.

    Ha! Thinking outside the box! I like it.

    Jay

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)
  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to Black Panther on Thu Sep 10 15:15:00 2020
    09-09-20 18:03 Black Panther wrote to Avon about Re: File FReq
    Howdy! Dan,

    @MSGID: <5F596D84.42741.fsx_gen@capitolcityonline.net>
    @REPLY: <5F596BC7.42739.fsx_gen@capitolcityonline.net>
    On 10 Sep 2020, Avon said the following...

    I've been working on setting up File Request (FReq) capabilities on Castle Rock. If someone could FReq one of the following Aliases from system, I would appreciate it. Please let me know if it works.

    I'll be coming to you for help with this soon also!

    I figured it was time. Now that we're in the 21st century, I need to
    get up to speed on 20th century technology... ;)

    It's really not too bad to get working with binkd. I'm not sure how it would work with Mystic as the mailer... Perhaps running ViReq or MFreq
    as a timed event... I'll have to play around with that setup.

    Whenever your ready, I'll do what I can to help you out. :)

    When Ben Ritchey had his cMech BBS up I could get a File using FREQ as the Subject of a Email.

    I would send my request To: Ben's cMech BBS Email Address
    Subject: FREQ
    and in the text area I would type:

    freq filename.ext

    EXAMPLE

    To get a file from Ben's BBS sent as a Reply to my Email Address, If I
    wanted a copy of PKZIP sent to Me I would type:

    freq pkz204g.zip

    And Ben's cMech BBS would send the File to me in a Reply Email.

    73 de Ed W9ODR . .


    ... Well, to be frank, I'd have to change my name.
    --- MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.49
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  • From Mindsurfer@21:3/119 to Black Panther on Thu Sep 10 21:42:56 2020
    I had to ask the same question a couple years ago. When I ran a
    board in the 90s, I didn't even freq files, so I had no idea
    either. :)

    I have the feeling we could need more informations like those collected
    in one place. it was realy hard to start with a BBS again, cause all the information is lost or very hard to find. Sometimes i wonder how i was
    able to have a remote access/frontdoor/mcMail BBS without having a search engine or the internet in general to search for tutorials, manuals etc
    pp. how could we become so dependent on the internet nowadays? =)

    Mindsurfer

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  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Ed Vance on Thu Sep 10 17:49:54 2020
    On 10 Sep 2020, Ed Vance said the following...

    When Ben Ritchey had his cMech BBS up I could get a File using FREQ as
    the Subject of a Email.

    I would send my request To: Ben's cMech BBS Email Address
    Subject: FREQ

    Hi Ed,

    As of right now, I don't have email going to the BBS system, so this would be
    a tough one to do. I would like to get some type of email interface set up on that system for this, and other reasons. Once I get email working on that system, I'll look into doing this as well.

    Thanks for the suggestion.


    ---

    Black Panther(RCS)
    aka Dan Richter
    Castle Rock BBS
    telnet://bbs.castlerockbbs.com
    http://www.castlerockbbs.com
    http://github.com/DRPanther
    The sparrows are flying again...

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/25 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)
  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Mindsurfer on Thu Sep 10 17:53:30 2020
    On 10 Sep 2020, Mindsurfer said the following...

    I have the feeling we could need more informations like those collected
    in one place. it was realy hard to start with a BBS again, cause all the information is lost or very hard to find. Sometimes i wonder how i was able to have a remote access/frontdoor/mcMail BBS without having a search engine or the internet in general to search for tutorials, manuals etc
    pp. how could we become so dependent on the internet nowadays? =)

    Back then, we had local Sysops that would help out when we had questions. ;)

    I had been running Proboard, Intermail, FMail, Allfix, etc, including all of the door games and events working from 1 batch file. I wish I still had that file... :)

    There is a wiki in the works for a lot of this type of information, at wiki.bbs.nz. We do need to start getting more information added to that site though...


    ---

    Black Panther(RCS)
    aka Dan Richter
    Castle Rock BBS
    telnet://bbs.castlerockbbs.com
    http://www.castlerockbbs.com
    http://github.com/DRPanther
    The sparrows are flying again...

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/25 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)
  • From Mindsurfer@21:3/119 to Black Panther on Fri Sep 11 02:16:48 2020
    I had been running Proboard, Intermail, FMail, Allfix, etc,
    including all of the door games and events working from 1 batch
    file. I wish I still had that file... :)

    tell me about it. i still had this one qic-80 tape and always thought i
    would be able to restore its content one day ;) i have to accept that the backup is lost i guess.

    There is a wiki in the works for a lot of this type of information,
    at wiki.bbs.nz. We do need to start getting more information added
    to that site though...

    yeah, its a process. whenever there is some time left :) but at least you
    have a nice domain name already. good catch!

    Mindsurfer

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Warpslide on Fri Sep 11 14:24:57 2020
    On 10 Sep 2020 at 08:40a, Warpslide pondered and said...

    Yup, I believe that must be the default as that's what mine is set to. I just don't see any option for attaching files when composing a netmail message. I may shoot g00r00 a message over on Fidonet to see if I'm missing something.

    Yeah I'll watch from the sidelines with interest.

    The other idea would be if it's a node you have defined as an echomai node set up a filebox for it and put the file in there so it sends wh you poll it.

    Ha! Thinking outside the box! I like it.

    It would work but be a pain to do.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Black Panther on Fri Sep 11 14:39:45 2020
    On 10 Sep 2020 at 01:53p, Black Panther pondered and said...

    There is a wiki in the works for a lot of this type of information, at wiki.bbs.nz. We do need to start getting more information added to that site though...

    My intention is to move this to wiki.fsxnet.nz and do more with the fsxnet.nz domain in the coming months.

    I'm very open to any suggestions as to how/what etc.. we should do with the wiki. The goal was for it to be a place to put helpful BBS info. I think some of the hurdles we sort of hit were simply in how best to structure the info.
    I was always keen to see it contain lots of how to set up etc. info for
    various BBS software. That kinda didn't fly as well as developers already had or were setting up their own documentation elsewhere and didn't want to duplicate stuff (which I can understand).

    My four years of contributions to developing the Mystic wiki appears over as I am locked out of the site by the author, so efforts to continue to develop that site appear to be a moot point now. I'm still pondering how best to help new Mystic users / BBS development. Part of that will be where to rest new
    content as it's developed. The fsxNet wiki could well be the place.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Datalus@21:4/120 to Avon on Fri Sep 11 00:27:10 2020
    My intention is to move this to wiki.fsxnet.nz and do more with the
    site appear to be a moot point now. I'm still pondering how best to help Mystic users / BBS development. Part of that will be where to rest new

    I vote for mystic guy or whatever want to call it. Help me out alot
    when I first started with Mystic.
    Datalus

    --- Ezycom V3.00 01FB064B
    * Origin: Deep Space Gateway BBS Running EZYCOM V3.0 (21:4/120)
  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Mindsurfer on Fri Sep 11 15:29:00 2020
    tell me about it. i still had this one qic-80 tape and always thought i would be able to restore its content one day ;) i have to accept that the backup is lost i guess.

    Lost the tape, or has the drive died a sticky roller death? I have a drive ìhere that seems solid, not that I've got anything to put it in. Not sure what ìit'll read though, off hand I think its TR3...

    Spec


    *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
    --- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
    * Origin: Scrawled in haste at The Lower Planes (21:3/101)
  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Black Panther on Fri Sep 11 15:38:00 2020
    Back then, we had local Sysops that would help out when we had questions. ;)

    If you were desperate you could dial someone elses board and yell for sysop. ìI also had to visit a few guys and sort some borked configs out. One had some ìpeanut friend who'd drop in and say have you seen this, it works like... and ìthen the whole system would be knackered... <chuckle>

    I had been running Proboard, Intermail, FMail, Allfix, etc, including all of the door games and events working from 1 batch file. I wish I
    still had that file... :)

    Seemed to be a split here, that way was less common here. Used type 15 exits, ìto drop back to the batchfile from the BBS. Left you with more memory ìavailable as it actually exited the BBS to run the doors or whatever else. ìThe alternative usually had FD/BBS/Mail/Maint in the batch file and doors ìusing type 7 exits to seperate batchfiles for each door. I started with the ìlatter and gradually migrated to the former because with a trillion IPX ìdrivers installed I was always low on mem.

    Spec


    *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
    --- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
    * Origin: Scrawled in haste at The Lower Planes (21:3/101)
  • From Mindsurfer@21:3/119 to Spectre on Fri Sep 11 15:10:26 2020
    Lost the tape, or has the drive died a sticky roller death? I have
    a drive here that seems solid, not that I've got anything to put it
    in. Not sure what it'll read though, off hand I think its TR3...

    i see you know the problem of old tape drives. the drive roller was just
    a semi fluid mess. the tape should be good, but still has little bits if
    the roller on it now. and buying a drive from ebay would always include
    the risk that it has exactly the same problem.
    plus you need a computer with parallel port wich is a rare thing nowadays
    :) and install windows98 or something around that age to make the iomega
    backup software work. and find the right old software in the first place.
    its no fun ;)

    Mindsurfer

    --- MagickaBBS v0.15alpha (Linux/armv7l)
    * Origin: FuNToPia telnet://funtopia.ddnss.eu:2023 (21:3/119)
  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Datalus on Fri Sep 11 17:35:58 2020
    My intention is to move this to wiki.fsxnet.nz and do more with the site appear to be a moot point now. I'm still pondering how best to he Mystic users / BBS development. Part of that will be where to rest new

    I vote for mystic guy or whatever want to call it. Help me out alot
    when I first started with Mystic.

    Indeed, The Mystic Guy has done a lot of work with these things, though Avon
    is pretty close, and there's some Paul guy, too. Really top notch, all three
    of them.

    But seriously on the topic, I like wikis, have enjoyed using them in the past (I currently have a wine Mediawiki install where I've kept track of various wines I've tried at tastings and whatnot (feel free to send a netmail if
    you'd like to see the concept), and had had a wiki for one of my previous
    work places).

    So I can only assume that I'd value having a wiki that was more open with its editing privileges (I don't know what's the least amount of effort / has the highest risk/reward profile / etc.). Having one that is a BBS setup wiki, or BBS wiki in general would also be neat, though I assume the larger in scope
    it gets, the less filled out it would be.

    And I hesitate to say that I'd contribute all that much, because I know how many other projects I'm not working on, or only working slowly on.

    But I'd doubtlessly contribute _something_, since I imagine the next time I answer a question on here, it wouldn't be all that much extra to make sure there was a page for it, with links to where I found the needed info.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Storm BBS (21:2/108)
  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Mindsurfer on Sat Sep 12 08:22:00 2020
    plus you need a computer with parallel port wich is a rare thing

    That's a strange one... never saw a parallel tape drive, only CD and HD ìboxes. All the tape drives I've come across are either floppy bus or scsi. ìThe floppy bus ones are all some version of the Colorado setup which use a ìTR1/2/3 encoding onto the tape.

    Spec


    --- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
    * Origin: (21:3/101)
  • From Mindsurfer@21:3/119 to Spectre on Sat Sep 12 01:07:00 2020
    That's a strange one... never saw a parallel tape drive, only CD
    and HD boxes. All the tape drives I've come across are either
    floppy bus or scsi. The floppy bus ones are all some version of
    the Colorado setup which use a TR1/2/3 encoding onto the tape.

    http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ZOYAAOSwWTRW08gd/s-l300.jpg

    Iomega Ditto 2GB

    Mindsurfer

    --- MagickaBBS v0.15alpha (Linux/armv7l)
    * Origin: FuNToPia telnet://funtopia.ddnss.eu:2023 (21:3/119)
  • From Andre@21:3/117 to Avon on Sun Sep 13 00:35:34 2020
    On 11 Sep 2020, Avon said the following...

    My four years of contributions to developing the Mystic wiki appears
    over as I am locked out of the site by the author, so efforts to
    continue to develop that site appear to be a moot point now.

    I really love the menu-driven config, and the user menus and interactive mail reader of Mystic. And while I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth with
    free, niche software... The weirdness of software dev and the poor documentation of the wiki has me always right on the edge of switching to something more open like Enigma 1/2.


    - Andre

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Runaan BBS (21:3/117)
  • From apam@21:1/126 to Andre on Sun Sep 13 20:06:44 2020
    I really love the menu-driven config, and the user menus and interactive mail
    reader of Mystic. And while I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth with free, niche software... The weirdness of software dev and the poor documentation of the wiki has me always right on the edge of switching to something more open like Enigma 1/2.

    WWIV and Synchronet both have menu-driven configuration. I believe WWIV has a full screen reader now, and synchronet have mods that do that. Enigma 1/2 also has a full screen reader.

    Enigma 1/2 and synchronet are both involved in their setup, but once you've got it going it's worth it. They are both very customizable packages.

    NuSkooler (Enigma) Rushfan (WWIV) and DigitalMan(Synchronet) are all really nice people who also put a lot of hard work into the BBS scene.

    I don't think switching softwares is looking a gift horse in the mouth, as each of these developers work just as hard as James.

    I've run all of those softwares for more than a little while, and they each have different strengths.

    Andrew


    --- TitanFTN (Linux/x86_64)
    * Origin: Wunderlust BBS - wunderlust.ddns.net:2023 (21:1/126)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Andre on Mon Sep 14 00:16:00 2020
    On 12 Sep 2020 at 08:35p, Andre pondered and said...

    I really love the menu-driven config, and the user menus and interactive mail reader of Mystic. And while I hate to look a gift horse in the
    mouth with free, niche software... The weirdness of software dev and the poor documentation of the wiki has me always right on the edge of switching to something more open like Enigma 1/2.

    I think just go with what you enjoy, else it's not going to be a fun experience...

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to apam on Mon Sep 14 01:45:00 2020
    Greenthings,

    Are you wanting to replace happyland in the webring with

    --- TitanFTN (Linux/x86_64) * Origin: Wunderlust BBS -

    Or do we just remove the entry?

    Spec


    *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
    --- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
    * Origin: Scrawled in haste at The Lower Planes (21:3/101)
  • From apam@21:1/126 to Spectre on Mon Sep 14 04:03:11 2020
    Or do we just remove the entry?

    Perhaps just remove it for now, thanks :)

    Andrew


    --- TitanFTN (Linux/x86_64)
    * Origin: Wunderlust BBS - wunderlust.ddns.net:2023 (21:1/126)
  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to All on Sun Sep 13 14:29:25 2020
    NuSkooler (Enigma) Rushfan (WWIV) and DigitalMan(Synchronet) are all really nice people who also put a lot of hard work into the BBS scene.

    I don't think switching softwares is looking a gift horse in the mouth,
    as each of these developers work just as hard as James.

    I've run all of those softwares for more than a little while, and they each have different strengths.
    Andrew

    I just wanted to reply to ya'll convo; For me, playing with each of the softwares IS what I like about BBSing.

    I still like Mystic the most, because IMO its the closest to the Telegade and Renegade that I used way back when... however Synchronet is just awesome. And TBH, if you are a Java person - you can do WONDERS... you can design your own entire system that doesn't look like Sync @ all. I love that there is Xbin graphic support baked into the server and the terminal software... thats a
    cool feature that not a lot of boards use...

    Enigma seems powerful too on the other side... what is it, HJSON; I dunno if thats python/java/whatever, but its also highly customizable. Anyway, I feel like Sync and Enigma are awesome if you design everything from the ground up..

    And I just wanna play with them all. :P

    Is Magicka still available, apam?



    |07p|15AULIE|1142|07o
    |08.........

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: American Pi BBS (21:2/150)
  • From Andre@21:3/117 to Avon on Sun Sep 13 20:29:18 2020
    On 13 Sep 2020, Avon said the following...

    I think just go with what you enjoy, else it's not going to be a fun experience...

    Sometimes it can be frustrating, but really 100% of the fun of the experience for me right now is fsxNet.

    - Andre

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Runaan BBS (21:3/117)
  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to apam on Mon Sep 14 13:24:00 2020
    Perhaps just remove it for now, thanks :)

    Done.

    Spec


    --- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
    * Origin: (21:3/101)
  • From Mindsurfer@21:3/119 to paulie420 on Mon Sep 14 01:52:28 2020
    Is Magicka still available, apam?

    It is all on Gitlab https://gitlab.com/magickabbs

    Mindsurfer

    --- MagickaBBS v0.15alpha (Linux/armv7l)
    * Origin: FuNToPia telnet://funtopia.ddnss.eu:2023 (21:3/119)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to apam on Tue Sep 15 18:15:21 2020
    On 14 Sep 2020 at 12:03a, apam pondered and said...

    Perhaps just remove it for now, thanks :)

    Just checking, did you get my netmail?

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From apam@21:1/126 to Avon on Tue Sep 15 17:15:42 2020
    Just checking, did you get my netmail?

    No I didn't.

    Andrew


    --- TitanFTN (Linux/x86_64)
    * Origin: Wunderlust BBS - wunderlust.ddns.net:2023 (21:1/126)
  • From apam@21:1/126 to apam on Tue Sep 15 17:27:10 2020
    Just checking, did you get my netmail?

    No I didn't.

    Actually I did get it, it just didn't show up in my BBS, but in the database..

    Thanks :)

    Andrew

    --- TitanFTN (Linux/x86_64)
    * Origin: Wunderlust BBS - wunderlust.ddns.net:2023 (21:1/126)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to apam on Tue Sep 15 19:37:56 2020
    On 15 Sep 2020 at 01:27p, apam pondered and said...

    Actually I did get it, it just didn't show up in my BBS, but in the

    Coolio

    Thanks :)

    All good :)

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to Mindsurfer on Mon Sep 14 21:49:39 2020
    Is Magicka still available, apam?

    It is all on Gitlab https://gitlab.com/magickabbs

    Mindsurfer

    Thanks... appreciate the link, too.



    |07p|15AULIE|1142|07o
    |08.........

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: American Pi BBS (21:2/150)
  • From Utopian Galt@21:4/108 to Apam on Sun Sep 13 03:32:09 2020
    RE: Re: wiki.bbs.nz
    BY: apam(21:1/126)


    I don't think switching softwares is looking a gift horse in the mouth,
    as each of these developers work just as hard as James.
    We learn from each other to gain from each other. It is thankless work in this era and I appreciate the work.


    --- WWIV 5.6.0.3261
    * Origin: inland utopia * socal usa * iutopia.duckdns.org:23 (21:4/108)
  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Al on Fri Oct 9 09:07:44 2020
    On 09 Sep 2020, 03:57p, Al said the following...

    mfreq also has "SmartMagic" that makes life so much simpler for freqs
    that change filenames often, like nodelists.

    Hey Al,

    I had mfreq running here for awhile with no issues at all. Now all of a
    sudden, I'm seeing errors in the SRIF log file...
    Syntax error in index lookup file (/home/bbs/mfreq/database/main.lookup)!

    Then it tells me that: mfreq-srif v3.19 ended with error

    I've removed all of the main index files, and re-ran mfreq-index to recreate them, but I'm still seeing the error in the SRIF log. There is no error or anything in the INDEX.log.

    I wish the logs would give a little more information when theres an error...

    Any ideas?


    ---

    Black Panther(RCS)
    aka Dan Richter
    Castle Rock BBS
    telnet://bbs.castlerockbbs.com
    http://www.castlerockbbs.com
    http://github.com/DRPanther
    The sparrows are flying again...

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/09/27 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)
  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Al on Fri Oct 9 09:21:48 2020
    On 09 Oct 2020, 05:07a, Black Panther said the following...

    I had mfreq running here for awhile with no issues at all. Now all of a sudden, I'm seeing errors in the SRIF log file...
    Syntax error in index lookup file (/home/bbs/mfreq/database/main.lookup)!

    Never mind... I figured it out... Evidently it doesn't like it when there's over 125,000 files indexed... ;)

    It should be working again.


    ---

    Black Panther(RCS)
    aka Dan Richter
    Castle Rock BBS
    telnet://bbs.castlerockbbs.com
    http://www.castlerockbbs.com
    http://github.com/DRPanther
    The sparrows are flying again...

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/09/27 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)
  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Black Panther on Fri Oct 9 08:29:54 2020
    I've removed all of the main index files, and re-ran mfreq-index to recreate them, but I'm still seeing the error in the SRIF log. There is no error or anything in the INDEX.log.

    I have not seen that error so I'm not sure. Has anything changed in the config that you can think of?

    I wish the logs would give a little more information when theres an error...

    It's a bugger when the logs don't have good info for you. I would try from scratch again with a basic config and build it up piece by piece and see if you can figure out where/how it breaks.

    I can try some requests to test if you like.

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (21:4/106.1)
  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Black Panther on Fri Oct 9 08:32:20 2020
    Never mind... I figured it out... Evidently it doesn't like it when there's over 125,000 files indexed... ;)

    Glad you figured it out. Can you read the source perhaps? Maybe you can get it working with a large filebase, and if you do we could all use the fix.. :)

    I wonder if Marcus is reachable these days?

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (21:4/106.1)
  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Al on Fri Oct 9 10:14:18 2020
    On 09 Oct 2020, 04:29a, Al said the following...

    I can try some requests to test if you like.

    If you could, that would be great. Everything should be working now, but I'd like confirmation. :)


    ---

    Black Panther(RCS)
    aka Dan Richter
    Castle Rock BBS
    telnet://bbs.castlerockbbs.com
    http://www.castlerockbbs.com
    http://github.com/DRPanther
    The sparrows are flying again...

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/09/27 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)
  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Al on Fri Oct 9 10:16:48 2020
    On 09 Oct 2020, 04:32a, Al said the following...

    Glad you figured it out. Can you read the source perhaps? Maybe you can get it working with a large filebase, and if you do we could all use the fix.. :)

    I'll take a look at it. Not sure if I can do anything with it or not, beside not trying to index 125,533 files... :)

    I wonder if Marcus is reachable these days?

    I had heard he left Fido. Not sure if he's come back or not. It would be nice... :)


    ---

    Black Panther(RCS)
    aka Dan Richter
    Castle Rock BBS
    telnet://bbs.castlerockbbs.com
    http://www.castlerockbbs.com
    http://github.com/DRPanther
    The sparrows are flying again...

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/09/27 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)
  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Black Panther on Fri Oct 9 09:29:12 2020
    If you could, that would be great. Everything should be working now, but I'd like confirmation. :)

    I just tried files and got no files and no response.

    Shall I try again?

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (21:4/106.1)
  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Black Panther on Fri Oct 9 09:31:52 2020
    I wonder if Marcus is reachable these days?

    I had heard he left Fido. Not sure if he's come back or not. It would be nice... :)

    He did leave fido and I don't think he'll be back but he may respond to email. If so he would likely know just where to look..

    My filebase is only 2500 files so I have a ways to go before I get in trouble.

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (21:4/106.1)
  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Al on Fri Oct 9 10:37:46 2020
    On 09 Oct 2020, 05:29a, Al said the following...

    If you could, that would be great. Everything should be working now, but like confirmation. :)

    I just tried files and got no files and no response.

    Wrong system. :) try my main BBS system at bbs.castlerockbbs.com:24554

    Shall I try again?

    If you could. Thank you.


    ---

    Black Panther(RCS)
    aka Dan Richter
    Castle Rock BBS
    telnet://bbs.castlerockbbs.com
    http://www.castlerockbbs.com
    http://github.com/DRPanther
    The sparrows are flying again...

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/09/27 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)
  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Al on Fri Oct 9 10:39:30 2020
    On 09 Oct 2020, 05:31a, Al said the following...

    He did leave fido and I don't think he'll be back but he may respond to email. If so he would likely know just where to look..

    I'll try looking at the code and see what I can figure out. If I don't get anywhere with it, we can try emailing him.

    My filebase is only 2500 files so I have a ways to go before I get in trouble.

    I think you have a long ways to go. :) I've got it at just over 7000 right
    now.


    ---

    Black Panther(RCS)
    aka Dan Richter
    Castle Rock BBS
    telnet://bbs.castlerockbbs.com
    http://www.castlerockbbs.com
    http://github.com/DRPanther
    The sparrows are flying again...

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/09/27 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)
  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Black Panther on Fri Oct 9 10:08:42 2020
    I just tried files and got no files and no response.

    Wrong system. :) try my main BBS system at bbs.castlerockbbs.com:24554

    Ahh.. right I forgot about that.

    Shall I try again?

    If you could. Thank you.

    I got allfiles and fsxnet just fine but fsxnode failed but it seems to work well.

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (21:4/106.1)
  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Black Panther on Fri Oct 9 10:09:20 2020
    I think you have a long ways to go. :) I've got it at just over 7000 right now.

    Yep, I probably don't need to worry at all.. ;)

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (21:4/106.1)
  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Black Panther on Fri Oct 9 11:15:30 2020
    On 09 Oct 2020, 06:39a, Black Panther said the following...

    I'll try looking at the code and see what I can figure out. If I don't
    get anywhere with it, we can try emailing him.

    I may end up having to find his email... I'm looking at the code, and it
    looks like there is an overflow counter that says:

    if (Counter >= 1000000) /* keep it reasonable, not UINT_MAX */

    Sure sounds like a reasonable number to me. ;)

    There is also a limit on the number of aliases it can handle.

    if (AliasNumber <= 10000) /* limit to 10000 */

    Neither of which was even close to what I was trying to index. I'm wondering
    if I have a bad file or something that it wasn't able to process properly,
    but didn't give an error when indexing...

    Maybe it's time to do some more detective work. ;)


    ---

    Black Panther(RCS)
    aka Dan Richter
    Castle Rock BBS
    telnet://bbs.castlerockbbs.com
    http://www.castlerockbbs.com
    http://github.com/DRPanther
    The sparrows are flying again...

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/09/27 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)
  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Black Panther on Fri Oct 9 10:26:36 2020
    Neither of which was even close to what I was trying to index. I'm wondering if I have a bad file or something that it wasn't able to process properly, but didn't give an error when indexing...

    Something... somewhere.. who knows..

    Maybe it's time to do some more detective work. ;)

    I'd ask Markus if he's contactable. There is an email at the bottom of the README but I don't know if that works. There is also a github page at..

    https://github.com/ftnapps/mfreq

    There may be current info there to get a hold of him.. hopefully.

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (21:4/106.1)
  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Black Panther on Sat Oct 10 09:00:00 2020
    Glad you figured it out. Can you read the source perhaps? Maybe you

    You need a longint? :)

    Spec


    *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
    --- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
    * Origin: Scrawled in haste at The Lower Planes (21:3/101)
  • From HSM@21:2/162 to Al on Fri Oct 9 19:42:10 2020
    On 09 Oct 2020, Al said the following...

    136
    Neither of which was even close to what I was trying to index. I'm wonde if I have a bad file or something that it wasn't able to process properl but didn't give an error when indexing...

    Something... somewhere.. who knows..

    Maybe it's time to do some more detective work. ;)

    I'd ask Markus if he's contactable. There is an email at the bottom of
    the README but I don't know if that works. There is also a github page at..

    There's the number at the top of the post again.. 136. Secret code?:)

    -=- Gary aka HSM -=-
    -=Mystic.BBSGameTime.com=-

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/09/27 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: BBS GameTime - mystic.BBSGameTime.com:23 (21:2/162)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to HSM on Sat Oct 10 13:32:16 2020
    On 09 Oct 2020 at 03:42p, HSM pondered and said...

    There's the number at the top of the post again.. 136. Secret code?:)

    Nah it's a minor bug related to SEEN-BY lines that get munged with Mystic
    MUTIL at the HUBs, I'm aware g00r00 fixed it in a pre-alpha for A47 but so
    far we've not updated the HUBs to it, probably won't for now.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to HSM on Fri Oct 9 23:15:48 2020
    136
    Neither of which was even close to what I was trying to index. I'm wonde >> > if I have a bad file or something that it wasn't able to process properl >> > but didn't give an error when indexing...

    Something... somewhere.. who knows..

    Maybe it's time to do some more detective work. ;)

    I'd ask Markus if he's contactable. There is an email at the bottom of
    the README but I don't know if that works. There is also a github page
    at..

    There's the number at the top of the post again.. 136. Secret code?:)

    Yeah, that's a curious little bugger. I don't see that problem on my Mystic I think because I get mail via MBSE. It might be the version in use by your hub although I'm not sure.

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (21:4/106.1)
  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Avon on Fri Oct 9 23:47:46 2020
    Nah it's a minor bug related to SEEN-BY lines that get munged with Mystic MUTIL at the HUBs, I'm aware g00r00 fixed it in a pre-alpha for A47 but so far we've not updated the HUBs to it, probably won't for now.

    Yep, it's too nad that showed up in the A46 version. The hubs must have to think twice before moving in the direction of a prealpha.

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (21:4/106.1)