I found myself thinking of the good old days, w
/ the systems that I used torun.
How I found my self running RA, because
I was told that everyone "aroundhere
" runs RA (Remote Access)
indeed they were all running w/ the sameconf
iguration files too that was literately shared on a USB thumb
drive, asthis thumb drive was copied from system
to new system. They had different bbs file
s, but it was the same hum drum cookie cutter out of
the box BBS with no customization.Wh
ich is why I did not stay with the plain jane, I
decided to get commercialsoftware. I pic
ked up Wildcat 4.20 loved it and so did
the users, but it didnot play nice with F
idonet or any other type of like message base.
It was not until Platinum Xpress Sotware from
Santronics came along to wherethis frontend somewhat
handled the issues with integrating fidonet intoWil
dcat, but sometimes Andrea and more so w/
Hector were a bit too abrasive.If y
ou knew them, then you know exactly what I mean
. I used a few others systems afte
r wildcat to what I am using now and formore then a
few years of which is Mystic. Love it
, in just about every way dueto it having a frontend
, telnet, BinkD and a BBS
all built in. Really Nice -
But What about the blinking yellow MAIL w
/ the chirp indicating new netmail?That
was in frontdoor from back in the day. The
MAIL indicator should be located perilously at the following
location Idiscovered this would be optimum at x
51 y10 from looking at the ans filewit
hin c:\mystic\data\mis_st
ats.ansThis my First atte
mpt - but I know nothing of writing a script with
in mysticto get Mystic to do this. I
do not even know if this is even possible?
Sooooo, I wanted to share with you all the scrip
t that Chat GPT under mydirection came up wi
th. I wanted to see of this would work or if it is j
ustgibberish and nonsense and if it was a possibility that t
his could be includedin the next version if there is one
? Thanks in advance,
Gregoryimport osimport time
import winsound# Directory to check for n
ew netmailNETMAIL_DIR = "C:\\
MYSTIC\\MSGS\\NETMAIL\\"#
Path to the ANSI fileANSI_FILE
= "C:\\MYSTIC\\DATA\\mis
_stats.ans"# Coordinat
es for the mail indicatorX = 51Y
= 10# Mail indicator message
MAIL_INDICATOR = "\x1B[5
;33mMAIL\x1B[0m
" # Blinking yellow MAIL# P
ath to the chirping sound file (replace with your soun
d file path)SOUND_FILE = "C
:\\MYSTIC\\scripts\\chirp.w
av"def check_new_ne
tmail():"""Check for new netmail in the
specified directory."""return len(
os.listdir(NETMAIL_DIR)) >
0def update_ansi_file
():"""Update the ANSI file to di
splay the mail indicator at X51, Y10.""
"with open(ANSI_FILE, '
r+') as file:lines =
file.readlines() if
Y - 1 < len(lines):
lines[Y - 1] = lines[
Y - 1][:X] + MAIL_INDICATOR
+ lines[Y -1][X
+len(MAIL_INDICATOR):]
file.seek(0)file
.writelines(lines)d
ef play
... Still waitng for that Coffee :)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/64)
* Origin: Capital Station BBS * Telnet://csbbs.dyndns.org * (21:1/127)

On 15 Dec 2024, Deyssman said the following...

import os
import time
import winsound

# Directory to check for new netmail
NETMAIL_DIR = "C:\\MYSTIC\\MSGS\\NETMAIL\\"
# Path to the ANSI file
ANSI_FILE = "C:\\MYSTIC\\DATA\\mis_stats.ans"
# Coordinates for the mail indicator
X = 51
Y = 10
# Mail indicator message
MAIL_INDICATOR = "\x1B[5;33mMAIL\x1B[0m" # Blinking yellow MAIL
# Path to the chirping sound file (replace with your sound file path) SOUND_FILE = "C:\\MYSTIC\\scripts\\chirp.wav"

def check_new_netmail():

SEEN-BY: 1/100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 115 116 117 SEEN-BY: 1/118 119 120 121 122 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 133 134 136 137 SEEN-BY: 1/138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 152 153 154 155 SEEN-BY: 1/156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 168 169 171 172 173 174 SEEN-BY: 1/175 176 177 178 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 193 SEEN-BY: 1/194 195 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 SEEN-BY: 1/212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 SEEN-BY: 1/229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 SEEN-BY: 1/246 247 248 616 995 999 2/100 1202 3/100 4/100 101 103 104 105 106 SEEN-BY: 4/107 108 109 110 111 113 116 118 121 122 124 125 128 131 136 137 138 SEEN-BY: 4/141 142 144 145 147 148 151 153 157 158 162 167 170 172 176 177 181 SEEN-BY: 4/183 187 5/100 6/100

If you want everyone to be able to read this post, parse out the ANSI...

I found myself thinking of the good old days,
w / the systems that I used
torun.

How I found my self running RA,
because I was told that everyone
"aroundhere " runs RA
(Remote Access) indeed
they were all running w/ the sameconf
iguration files too that was literately shared on a USB
thumb drive, asthis
thumb drive was copied from system to new system.
They had different bbs file s,
but it was the same hum drum cookie cutter out of the box
BBS with no customization.Wh
ich is why I did not stay with the plain jane,
I decided to get commercialsoftware.
I pic ked up Wildcat 4.20
loved it and so did the users, but it
didnot play nice with F idonet
or any other type of like message base. It was not
until Platinum Xpress Sotware from
Santronics came along to wherethis frontend
somewhat handled the issues with integrating fidonet
intoWil dcat, but sometimes
Andrea and more so w/

Hector were a bit too abrasive.If
y ou knew them, then you know exactly what I
mean . I used a few
others systems afte r wildcat to what I am using
now and formore then a few years of which is
Mystic. Love it , in
just about every way dueto it having a frontend
, telnet, BinkD and a BBS
all built in. Really Nice -
But What about the blinking yellow MAIL
w / the chirp indicating new
netmail?That was in frontdoor
from back in the day. The

MAIL indicator should be located perilously at the
following location Idiscovered
this would be optimum at x 51 y10
from looking at the ans filewit hin
c:\mystic\data\mis_st
ats.ansThis my First
atte mpt - but I know nothing of writing
a script with in mysticto get Mystic
to do this. I do not even know if this is
even possible? Sooooo,
I wanted to share with you all the scrip t
that Chat GPT under mydirection came up wi
th. I wanted to see of this would work or if it is
j ustgibberish and nonsense and if it was a
possibility that t his could be includedin
the next version if there is one ?
Thanks in advance,
Gregoryimport osimport time
import winsound# Directory to check for
n ew netmailNETMAIL_DIR
= "C:\\
MYSTIC\\MSGS\\NETMAIL\\"#
Path to the ANSI
fileANSI_FILE =
"C:\\MYSTIC\\DATA\\mis
_stats.ans"#
Coordinat es for the mail indicatorX
= 51Y

= 10# Mail indicator message
MAIL_INDICATOR = "\x1B[5
;33mMAIL\x1B[00
m " # Blinking yellow MAIL#
P ath to the chirping sound file (replace
with your soun d file
path)SOUND_FILE = "C
:\\MYSTIC\\scripts\\chirp.0
w av"def
check_new_ne
tmail():"""Check for new netmail in
the specified directory."""return
len(
os.listdir(NETMAIL_DIR)) >
0def
update_ansi_file
():"""Update the ANSI file to
di splay the mail indicator at X51,
Y10."" "with
open(ANSI_FILE, ' r+')
as file:lines =
file.readlines() if
Y - 1 <
len(lines):
lines[Y - 1] =
lines[ Y - 1][:X]
+ MAIL_INDICATOR +
lines[Y -1][X
+len(MAIL_INDICATOR):]
file.seek(0)file
.writelines(lines)0
d ef play
... Still waitng for that Coffee :)

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