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    From apam@21:1/126 to All on Sun Jan 11 02:51:59 2026

    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


    --- Talisman v0.1-dev (Linux/x86_64)
    * Origin: Talisman BBS - Experimental BBS (21:1/126)
  • From Netsurge@21:4/154 to apam on Sun Jan 11 02:51:59 2026

    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

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/10/31 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: % disksh0p!bbs % bbs.diskshop.ca % SciNet ftn hq % (21:4/154)
  • From apam@21:1/126 to Netsurge on Sun Jan 11 02:51:59 2026

    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


    --- Talisman v0.1-dev (Linux/x86_64)
    * Origin: Talisman BBS - Experimental BBS (21:1/126)
  • From apam@21:1/126 to Al on Sun Jan 11 02:51:59 2026

    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


    --- Talisman v0.1-dev (Linux/x86_64)
    * Origin: Talisman BBS - Experimental BBS (21:1/126)
  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Al on Sun Jan 11 02:51:59 2026

    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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    aka Dan Richter
    Castle Rock BBS
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    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/10/31 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)
  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Al on Sun Jan 11 02:51:59 2026

    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.


    ---

    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)