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SBBSECHO responds to areafix commands but not filefix. I do have tickit set up to add file echos for nodes that connect here, but would like to give them a way
to perform self-service with filefix commands.

Is anyone using a filefix agent with Synchronet/SBBSECHO? If so, what are you using and is the way to getting it working with SBBSECHO documented?

I tried doing a google search and only came up with links to a "filefix" program
that works with file descriptions in SBBS file areas and is not the file echo program I was looking for.

Thanks!

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To: Dumas Walker
Re: Filefix?
By: Dumas Walker to All on Sat Apr 25 2020 06:44 pm

SBBSECHO responds to areafix commands but not filefix.

That is correct.

I do have tickit set
up to add file echos for nodes that connect here, but would like to give them a way
to perform self-service with filefix commands.

I'll give it some thought. :-)

digital man

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To: Digital Man
El 26/4/20 a las 01:48, Digital Man escribió:

Re: Filefix?
By: Dumas Walker to All on Sat Apr 25 2020 06:44 pm

SBBSECHO responds to areafix commands but not filefix.

That is correct.

I do have tickit set
up to add file echos for nodes that connect here, but would like to give them a way
to perform self-service with filefix commands.

I'll give it some thought. :-)

cool, i'm working on let points to people, fileechos it's one on the
feateures that cound be great.

i already have working tickit.js and FREQ with (freqit) .
i still had no success with hatchit.js, no errors, no logs. =(

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To: Dumas Walker
Re: Filefix?
By: Dumas Walker to All on Sat Apr 25 2020 18:44:06

Is anyone using a filefix agent with Synchronet/SBBSECHO?

at this point in time, there is none... i'm not aware of anything in development, either... it is something that i've been thinking about since i did my work on TickIT but i've not come up with a good/proper place to insert the "agent"... the way that sbbsecho processes netmails, it would seem that inside sbbsecho with the areafix stuff would be the best place but that means that sbbsecho would then need to understand the tickit.ini file and the sbbs file areas and that's probably not a good thing to have...


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To: Digital Man

Digital Man wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

I do have tickit set
up to add file echos for nodes that connect here, but would like to give them a way to perform self-service with filefix commands.

I'll give it some thought. :-)

I think I put my two cents in wishing for filefix support, too - would hope
it wouldn't be that much more complex than the areafix logic.


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Re: Re: Filefix?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Sun Apr 26 2020 09:31 am

Digital Man wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

I do have tickit set
up to add file echos for nodes that connect here, but would like to give them a way to perform self-service with filefix commands.

I'll give it some thought. :-)

I think I put my two cents in wishing for filefix support, too - would hope it wouldn't be that much more complex than the areafix logic.

It does help that tickit.ini is a .ini file. :-)

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To: DIGITAL MAN

I do have tickit set
up to add file echos for nodes that connect here, but would like to give them a way
to perform self-service with filefix commands.

I'll give it some thought. :-)

I am willing to use a third party solution, if there is one. Glad to hear
you are thinking about it, though. :)


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To: Ragnarok
El 26/4/20 a las 19:59, Ragnarok escribió:

I dont known if area too muy dificult

I dont know if it is very difficult

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To: Rampage
El 26/4/20 a las 10:36, Rampage escribió:

Re: Filefix?
By: Dumas Walker to All on Sat Apr 25 2020 18:44:06

Is anyone using a filefix agent with Synchronet/SBBSECHO?

at this point in time, there is none... i'm not aware of anything in development, either... it is something that i've been thinking about since i did my work on TickIT but i've not come up with a good/proper place to insert the "agent"... the way that sbbsecho processes netmails, it would seem that inside sbbsecho with the areafix stuff would be the best place but that means that sbbsecho would then need to understand the tickit.ini file and the sbbs file areas and that's probably not a good thing to have...

Maybe sbbsecho can implement some hooks seetings that call in-preocess
js scripts
I dont known if area too muy dificult

on_sbbsecho_start(some process paramaeter)
on_nemail_incoming (the message)
on_process_packet (the packet filename)
on_sbbsecho_end (void)

etc..

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To: Dumas Walker
Re: Filefix?
By: Dumas Walker to DIGITAL MAN on Sun Apr 26 2020 11:01:00

I do have tickit set up to add file echos for nodes that connect
here, but would like to give them a way to perform self-service
with filefix commands.

I'll give it some thought. :-)

I am willing to use a third party solution, if there is one.

there is no 3rd party solution that works with tickit at this time...

Glad to hear you are thinking about it, though. :)

i've been thinking about this problem since i did the work i did to tickit in late 2018, early 2019... i've not come up with a solution yet...

if sbbsecho would write /all/ netmails to a transitory .msg file during processing, this and a few other things could be handled easier than they are currently... this would, however, make things a little slower and slightly more complicated than the current implementation... i constantly debate with myself about if sbbsecho should/could behave more like traditional FTN tossers... there are pluses and minuses... trying to assign weights to them is ""tough""... especially when other things are considered...

someone mentioned the ""dummy"" factor earlier... i agree that making thing easier for the general operator populous is a good thing on the one hand but then i look at the other hand holding the details about how FTM works and the capabilities there are for separate steps vs handle-it-all-in-one-run and... well... i dunno...

i've thought about asking for the ability to have post-unpack and pre-pack scripts so as to be able to handle some netmail msg tasks during those periods of sbbsecho's execution but there are other places that being able to execute an external script or utility would be handy, too... so i've just not even asked... especially since the capabilities would only be helpful to ""advance"" system configurations and tasks...


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To: Ragnarok
Re: Re: Filefix?
By: Ragnarok to Rampage on Sun Apr 26 2020 07:59 pm

El 26/4/20 a las 10:36, Rampage escribi¢:

Re: Filefix?
By: Dumas Walker to All on Sat Apr 25 2020 18:44:06

Is anyone using a filefix agent with Synchronet/SBBSECHO?

at this point in time, there is none... i'm not aware of anything in development, either... it is something that i've been thinking about since i did my work on TickIT but i've not come up with a good/proper place to insert the "agent"... the way that sbbsecho processes netmails, it would seem that inside sbbsecho with the areafix stuff would be the best place but that means that sbbsecho would then need to understand the tickit.ini file and the sbbs file areas and that's probably not a good thing to have...

Maybe sbbsecho can implement some hooks seetings that call in-preocess
js scripts
I dont known if area too muy dificult

on_sbbsecho_start(some process paramaeter)
on_nemail_incoming (the message)
on_process_packet (the packet filename)
on_sbbsecho_end (void)

I considered that, but I didn't want to link in the JS engine just for this one function. So instead, I did the robot-trigger thing:

Add support for "robots": Right now, robots are for receiving netmail messages only (e.g. areamgr requests or whatever). In the future, they could be extended to echomail areas too, if that's desirable.

For now, it's really intended for ticket-FileFix.

Anyway, NetMail can be received for the robot-name@<your-ftn-address> and
the mail message will be stored in the Synchronet "mail" base. The recipient extension will be absent since there is no valid user account associated with the robot. Robot names supercede other user names/aliases for received netmail. If one or more netmail messages were imported for a robot and that robot has
a semaphore path/filename specified (e.g. to trigger a timed event), then that semaphore will be "touched" before SBBSecho exits.
One weird anomly with this is if attached files are received for robots, those files will be stored in data/user/0000.in. The altnerative is to just ignore file attachments sent to robots.

The echofg supprot for robots is still yet to be added. In the mean time, you can add robots to your sbbsecho.ini like so:
[robot:<name>]
semfile=/path/to/semfile

Incremented version to 3.11.

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