Hi

Is anyone familiar with htick from the husky project?

I'm wanting to use it to import tic files into my BBS, I see it moves
files in a specified directory, but is there a hook to call something
to add it to the file database?

At present it's looking like I will have to scan each file directory and
add files missing from the database by importing their descriptions from file_id.diz.

I was hoping there was a hook that went something along the lines of
"importing this file with this description into this area" so I could use
the description from the tic file.

Andrew


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I was hoping there was a hook that went something along the lines of "importing this file with this description into this area" so I could use the description from the tic file.

htick uses the standard files.bbs format for listing files and their descriptions. I'm sure you could whip something up that would import the files.bbs file.

|15frank |08// |15netsurge
|07disksh0p|08!|07bbs |08% |07bbs.diskshop.ca |08% |07mystic goodness |11SciNet |03ftn hq |08% |07https://scinet-ftn.org

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* Origin: % disksh0p!bbs % bbs.diskshop.ca % SciNet ftn hq % (21:4/154)

htick uses the standard files.bbs format for listing files and their descriptions. I'm sure you could whip something up that would import the files.bbs file.

Thanks!

Andrew


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Htick will add files it tosses to the files.bbs. It will take descriptions from a file_id.diz if there is one or from LDesc lines if there are any and last it will get the description from the Desc line in the tic.

Thanks Al!

Andrew


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On 07 Nov 2020, 04:48p, Al said the following...

If it gets the description from the Desc line the description will be on onelong line.

I had that issue here, and did a little 'bash-fu' to correct it. :)

for file in /home/dan/mystic/echomail/in/*.tic; do
[ -e "$file" ] || continue
ticlength=`cat "$file" | grep "^Desc " | wc -c`
if [ $ticlength -gt 45 ]
then
cat $file | grep "Desc " | cut -c6- | fold -sw45 > ticdesc.txt ticdesc=`cat ticdesc.txt`
sed -i 's/^Desc/LDesc/g' $file
fmt -w 45 -p LDesc $file > test.tic
cp test.tic $file
rm test.tic
rm ticdesc.txt
fi
done

I also did a little more 'bash-fu' to get the size field in the .tic files that are missing.

for file in /home/dan/mystic/echomail/in/*.tic; do
[ -e "$file" ] || continue
filesize=0
filesize=`cat $file | grep "^Size " | sed 's/.*Size //'`
filename=`cat $file | grep "^File " | sed 's/^File //' | sed 's/\r$//'`
if [ "$filesize" = '' ]
then
filesize=`wc -c "$filename" | awk '{print $1}'`
echo "Size $filesize" >> $file
fi
filesize=0
done


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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/10/31 (Linux/64)
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On 08 Nov 2020, 04:42p, Al said the following...

I'll have to scrape that. It looks like you are folding a single desc
line intomultiple LDesc lines?

Does Mystic import the description from LDesc better?

Yup, the LDesc lines import just fine. The long Desc line gets truncated if it's too long.


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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...

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/10/31 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)