Hey all,

I'm having three minor things going on with Mystic, that some, except one, have existed prior to the 7.30.21 alpha upgrade. Curious how I fix these.

1. When reading posts from FTN's or even local echos, there are times when I or a user can write an email, read it back, and there are several carraige returns between lines of a singular paragraph. This is writing and reading in 80x25, not writing in 132x37 then reading in 80x25. Has anyone else experienced this and know the cause/fix?
2. I will perform /U global upload of all groups/areas within the file section, and hundreds of files will upload. The next day, I can do it again, and the same files will upload again. It appears that My Mystic Set up is purging the file base despite the files not being duplicate and despite me having the purge file area set to false. What might I not have setup correctly within mutil.ini?
3. On the new Mystic Version .. When I open archive viewer and select a .txt file to read, the telnet/ssh session terminates.

On a seperate note, I'm curious if Mystic has built in light bar support for Group and Area browing for both file and message areas. I have been using a mod, but would like to get back to just using the built in mystic features for this area. I thought I had seen this feature before but could not find it within config ..

Any info on any of the above would be appreciated.


Sincerely,


-tG

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Hello Doug (tG)!

On 31 Jul 2021, Doug Cooper said the following...

3. On the new Mystic Version .. When I open archive viewer and select a .txt file to read, the telnet/ssh session terminates.

That's strange -- I haven't had that happen (just checked).

For me, when viewing a .txt or .TXT file inside an archive, the ANSI Viewer launches and displays the file.

I'm not sure, but isn't this controlled by Editors --> Archive Editor -->
Ext: TXT?

On my board it looks like this:

Active ³ Yes
Extension ³ TXT
OS ³ All
Description ³ Text File
Pack Cmd ³
Unpack Cmd ³ @textdiz
View Cmd ³ @textview

Best regards
Bj”rn (aka Zip)

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On my board it looks like this:

Active ³ Yes
Extension ³ TXT
OS ³ All
Description ³ Text File
Pack Cmd ³
Unpack Cmd ³ @textdiz
View Cmd ³ @textview

Thanks for the reply.

Yeah I checked that just now to what you have and it's set correctly. It appears to happen with older programs, and even happens during /u mass upload of files, when Mytic is checking the file description, and only on some files. But in the past if it could not read a file description, it would add it anyway. However beyond that, if a user wants to view the contents of an archive, on some, not all ascii files, Mystic now terminates the call. I am running an RPI4 so not sure if this is an RPI thing or .... something else.


I'll cross post this issue on Arak to see if g00r00 is working on it.

-tG

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Hello Doug!

On 03 Aug 2021, Doug Cooper said the following...

Yeah I checked that just now to what you have and it's set correctly. It appears to happen with older programs, and even happens during /u mass

Hmm, maybe something with the archive extraction stuff then...

Myself I'm digging into viewing ARJ and 7-ZIP files on Linux (see the MYSTIC FidoNet echo). With some progress. :-D

But not a nice lightbar archive content view like the "built-in" one for ZIP/RAR archives. (Actually I haven't managed to get the built-in viewing of LHA/LZH to work, but I believe g00r00 is investigating that. Maybe something with the example file I tried with.)

I'll cross post this issue on Arak to see if g00r00 is working on it.

Sounds good!

Keeping fingers crossed! =)

Best regards
Zip

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/07/31 (Linux/64)
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Hello again, Doug!

Myself I'm digging into viewing ARJ and 7-ZIP files on Linux (see the MYSTIC FidoNet echo). With some progress. :-D

Oh, and this *is* the MYSTIC echo. :-D
Time to take a break from the 'puter... :-D

Best regards
Bj”rn

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/07/31 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (2:201/137)

1. When reading posts from FTN's or even local echos, there are times when I or a user can write an email, read it back, and there are several carraige returns between lines of a singular paragraph. This is writing and reading in 80x25, not writing in 132x37 then reading in 80x25. Has anyone else experienced this and know the cause/fix?

If you have a problem you can reproduce let me know how to reproduce it and I will look into it. I have not seen something like this nor had anyone else mention it.

Keep in mind that if you physically press enter in text then it will move to the next line and that people who are using a different screen size will still see those enters. In other words, if you place a hard paragraph end, they will show up as a hard paragraph end for everyone at that point in the text regardless of their screen size.

IE: If you type paragraphs you have to let it actually wrap and format the paragraph. If you type hard enters at the end of each line then you are going to see hard enters in the middle of sentences on any other screen size.

2. I will perform /U global upload of all groups/areas within the file section, and hundreds of files will upload. The next day, I can do it again, and the same files will upload again. It appears that My Mystic

Give me steps and files to reproduce a problem and I will look into it but I will note to test this. I haven't had anyone else mention it though.

3. On the new Mystic Version .. When I open archive viewer and select a .txt file to read, the telnet/ssh session terminates.

Did you upgrade your ansi viewer as per the latest upgrade instructions with the newer template? Is there anything in your node/error logs? If you have a file that has a problem send it to me with a note about the problem so I can take a look!

On a seperate note, I'm curious if Mystic has built in light bar support for Group and Area browing for both file and message areas. I have been

You can use the msg index to select msg are and the file index to select file area. There is an action setting that determines if the template you call reads, selects, or toggles new/qwk scan settings. So yes, Mystic has lightbar area selection and scan settings using those templates. If you look in the default index template you will see this:

; ACTION MODE: What to do when enter is pressed on a base
; 0 = read messages
; 1 = change area
; 2 = toggle newscan
; 3 = toggle QWKscan

So you create a new template with the action mode set to what you want it to do when the user presses enter, then call that template with the index reader menu command and it will act as a message reader (which you're used to), an area changer, a newscan or qwkscan selector.

Copy msg_index.ini to pickmsgarea.ini and change action mode to 1 then call the MI with dat of pickmsgarea and you have a lightbar area selector.

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You can use the msg index to select msg are and the file index to select file area. There is an action setting that determines if the template you call reads, selects, or toggles new/qwk scan settings. So yes, Mystic has lightbar area selection and scan settings using those templates. If you look in the default index template you will see this:

Thanks for this tip, it's working pretty nice so far on the new BBS I'm making. Can I do the same with groups and not just areas? So much room for ANSI!

Also curious .. I'm trying to do a simple pop up box with y/n input, where the answer determines which GO menu to send the user to. In addition, one that does not clear the screen before loading the pop up box. Without doing it via .MPL or .ANS (I have too many of both as is) I was hoping there is a way to do so in mystic?

I read through wiki and have it mostly working, other then the clear screen, and it appears (at the moment) that yes and no send the user to the same menu (i.e. I'm missing something on the Yes/No prompt) that I can't seem to find in wiki. General question for anyone.

G00r00 thanks again for the great release!

-tG

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Also curious .. I'm trying to do a simple pop up box with y/n input,
where the answer determines which GO menu to send the user to. In addition, one that does not clear the screen before loading the pop up box. Without doing it via .MPL or .ANS (I have too many of both as is)
I was hoping there is a way to do so in mystic?

Sure you can use the -Y menu command to ask a Yes/No question and then use the "OK" acs to test if they answered yes or not. Then if you wanted Mystic to pop up a box you can use the #Y MCI code. For example:

Command: -Y
Data: #Y#2#10#Confirm#Do you want to do this?#

Command: GO
Data: yesmenu
Access: OK

Command: GO
Data: nomenu
Access: !OK

This will cause Mystic to pop up a box, ask the question, restore the user's screen after the box was responded to, and then goto "yesmenu" if they answer yes or "nomenu" if they answer no. No scripting or editing of ANSIs required.

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