Hi

I pushed some new commits today, some bugs in the new strings stuff
sorted (regarding octal and hex escape codes not working) and added the
ability to embed a command to display a gfile.

example:

msgid "LOGIN: "
msgstr "@gfile:somegfile@\r\nLOGIN: "

will display a gfile, then line break then login:

I've also added a new config variable to file areas, in addition to upload_sec_level and download_sec_level there is now a visible_sec_level.

By default it will be the same as whatever you've set download_sec_level
to. However, now you can make areas visible, so users can list them,
however they can't tag files (and therefore download them).

Also, Alpha reports the postie is still playing up on some packets. If
you find postie wont run due to a pid file, there should be a
corresponding postie-XXX in the temp directory. If you could, please zip
up this entire folder and send it to me. Hopefully it will give me the
clues I need to hunt down this bug.

Thanks,

Andrew

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--- Talisman v0.27-dev (Windows/x64)
* Origin: The Grinning Cat >^.^< (21:1/182.1)

msgid "LOGIN: "
msgstr "@gfile:somegfile@\r\nLOGIN: "

Just FYI, if the "at-code" in this message was filtered out in your
BBS system when viewing it, you can see in the quoted text what the string should be to display a file ^^^

BTW -- it works FANTASTIC.

You can see it in action in my New User signup at AlphaComplex --

telnet: alphacomplex.us:2323
ssh: alphacomplex.us:2222 (un: new, pw: new)

Thanks Apam!

|04a|12LPHA
|03Alpha Complex |15- |11alphacomplex.us:2323

--- Talisman v0.27-dev (Linux/armv7l)
* Origin: THE COMPUTER IS YOUR FRIEND. Alpha Complex - alphacomplex.us:2323 (21:4/158)

Just FYI, if the "at-code" in this message was filtered out in your
BBS system when viewing it, you can see in the quoted text what the
string
should be to display a file ^^^

Thanks for that, it's filtered now so only gfiles displayed from format
strings will be displayed..

Was actually a bit of a security issue if you had gfiles you didn't want certain levels to see, they could type @gfile:somegfile@ and have it
display...

oops

Andrew

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--- Talisman v0.27-dev (Windows/x64)
* Origin: The Grinning Cat >^.^< (21:1/182.1)

BTW -- it works FANTASTIC.

You can see it in action in my New User signup at AlphaComplex --

telnet: alphacomplex.us:2323
ssh: alphacomplex.us:2222 (un: new, pw: new)

Awesome, awesome, AWESOME! I'm comin over....



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

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/08/29 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150)

telnet: alphacomplex.us:2323
ssh: alphacomplex.us:2222 (un: new, pw: new)

Awesome, awesome, AWESOME! I'm comin over....

He's done a really good job at customizing his bbs, I think you'll agree.

The login matrix is very cool (I'm still not 100% sure how he did that
haha, particularly the disconnect part) The new user signup looks good
too, and the other art elsewhere all looks good.

I always get a kick out of seeing what people come up with. Talisman's
still pretty restrictive on the customization front, so it's especially
cool seeing the creativity people have to bend it to their will.

Andrew

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--- Talisman v0.27-dev (Windows/x64)
* Origin: The Grinning Cat >^.^< (21:1/182.1)

Thanks, apam! And paulie, too.

I'm really a hacker and 90% of the time I just stumble on the right way
of doing things through sheer trial and error and force of will, ha. I've
got a bit of a lua bug right now.

For those who use mystic, it's basically Talisman's MPL. And it's
embedded lua, already a versatile scripting language that's been around
for a while. Already it powers many cool things in Talisman -- like
inter-bbs one-liners, automessage, rumors. Don't like something? Jump
into the script and change it!

For other Talisman sysops out there, I'm going to start a luascript
download area on AlphaComplex this weekend, I'll post my NEWUSER.LUA
there if anyone wants to take a look. And any others I'm working on.

Talisman is truly a wonderful piece of software, even better because of
the care of its creator -- you!

Cheers,

|04a|12LPHA
|03Alpha Complex |15- |11alphacomplex.us:2323

--- Talisman v0.27-dev (Linux/armv7l)
* Origin: THE COMPUTER IS YOUR FRIEND. Alpha Complex - alphacomplex.us:2323 (21:4/158)

On 23 Oct 2021, aLPHA said the following...

Thanks, apam! And paulie, too.
For other Talisman sysops out there, I'm going to start a luascript download area on AlphaComplex this weekend, I'll post my NEWUSER.LUA
there if anyone wants to take a look. And any others I'm working on.

I've managed to get it up running and it looks good. I just have to figure
out how to get it to exchange mail with its uplink. Fails constantly.

Mick Manning
-(< centralontarioremote.com:2323 >)-
-(< CanadaNET IRC centralontarioremote.com >)-
-(< Gopher://centralontarioremote.com:70 >)-

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Central Ontario Remote BBS (21:1/156)

I've managed to get it up running and it looks good. I just have to
figure
out how to get it to exchange mail with its uplink. Fails constantly.

Hey Mickey, if you use discord, come over the Sysop Help Desk, apam and
myself hang out there in the Talisman area and can help troubleshoot.

https://discord.gg/BmEj4KY7Qj

|04a|12LPHA
|03Alpha Complex |15- |11alphacomplex.us:2323

--- Talisman v0.27-dev (Linux/armv7l)
* Origin: BBS: alphacomplex.us:2323 / Sysop Help Desk: https://discord.gg/BmEj4KY7Qj (21:4/158)

I've managed to get it up running and it looks good. I just have to
figure
out how to get it to exchange mail with its uplink. Fails constantly.

What's your uplink running? We had some issues talking to binkit that we
sorted out, I can't remember if that was in the most recent release or
not.

Binki is still very new, so there's bound to be more bugs to find :)

Andrew

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--- Talisman v0.27-dev (Windows/x64)
* Origin: The Grinning Cat >^.^< (21:1/182.1)

On 25 Oct 2021, apam said the following...

out how to get it to exchange mail with its uplink. Fails constantly.

What's your uplink running? We had some issues talking to binkit that we sorted out, I can't remember if that was in the most recent release or not.

I'm currently my own uplink. Talisman would gets its mail from a Mystic sys
on a Pi.

Binki is still very new, so there's bound to be more bugs to find :)

I couldnt get Binkd to connect because of some security issue, but Binki
seems to connect but no mail exchange takes place. Probably a config issue
with a TOML, that I haven't found yet.

Mick Manning
-(< centralontarioremote.com:2323 >)-
-(< CanadaNET IRC centralontarioremote.com >)-
-(< Gopher://centralontarioremote.com:70 >)-

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Central Ontario Remote BBS (21:1/156)

I couldnt get Binkd to connect because of some security issue, but
Binki
seems to connect but no mail exchange takes place. Probably a config
issue
with a TOML, that I haven't found yet.

binki stores a log file in your logs directory, does that shed any light
on things?

Andrew
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--- Talisman v0.27-dev (Linux/x86_64)
* Origin: HappyLand v2.0 - telnet://happylandbbs.com:11892/ (21:1/182)

On 25 Oct 2021, apam said the following...

binki stores a log file in your logs directory, does that shed any light on things?

Nothing that really helps.

2021-10-25 09:09:28 INFO: <<< M_PWD:
CRAM-MD5-5c95fc113693e70e5e547f8371608caa
2021-10-25 09:09:28 INFO: >>> M_OK: secure
2021-10-25 09:09:28 INFO: >>> M_NUL: QSIZE 0 files 0 bytes
2021-10-25 09:09:28 INFO: >>> M_EOB: No Data
2021-10-25 09:09:28 INFO: <<< M_EOB: All done!

Doesn't know what to pick-up. I know they're waiting on Mystic. Like I say, it's something I've forgotten to do in the configs. :-)

Mick Manning
-(< centralontarioremote.com:2323 >)-
-(< CanadaNET IRC centralontarioremote.com >)-
-(< Gopher://centralontarioremote.com:70 >)-

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Central Ontario Remote BBS (21:1/156)

2021-10-25 09:09:28 INFO: >>> M_OK: secure
2021-10-25 09:09:28 INFO: >>> M_NUL: QSIZE 0 files 0 bytes
2021-10-25 09:09:28 INFO: >>> M_EOB: No Data

This is all sent by the mystic side, it's saying that mystic has no files to send. Are you sure the mystic side is configured correctly?

Andrew

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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/09/29 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

On 26 Oct 2021, apam said the following...

This is all sent by the mystic side, it's saying that mystic has no
files to send. Are you sure the mystic side is configured correctly?

It's very true. Mystic had nothing to send. Much of the Talisman message
system seems to work internally ok. Packets still don't go out to Mystic, though messages are on the BBS. I've played with it a few days and although
it seems the message area configs are in order, and Mystic sends packets now, nothing is imported. As time permits, we'll try again. My TOML files may
still be screwed up.

Mick Manning
-(< centralontarioremote.com:2323 >)-
-(< CanadaNET IRC centralontarioremote.com >)-
-(< Gopher://centralontarioremote.com:70 >)-

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Central Ontario Remote BBS (21:1/156)

nothing is imported. As time permits, we'll try again. My TOML files
may
still be screwed up.

Feel free to email them to me if you'd like me to have a look over them.

apam@happylandbbs.com

Andrew

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--- Talisman v0.28-dev (Linux/x86_64)
* Origin: HappyLand v2.0 - telnet://happylandbbs.com:11892/ (21:1/182)