Ryan & Stackfault,

The league ID for AB1 is 77 BTW.

|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 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: % disksh0p!bbs % bbs.diskshop.ca % SciNet ftn hq % (77:1/100)

The league ID for AB1 is 77 BTW.

Very good, I'll get this running in here.

For now, I have the following settings in AB1:

[A] Seasons follow date (Y/N) : Y [B] Hemisphere : N [C] No/Characters per player (9 max) : 4 [D] Max time per character : 60 [E] Number of turns per character : 1000 [F] Display rego name : Y

Let me know what the settings for the League would be.

Cheers!

|15 ß Þ |15StackFault |08<|03.|11.|15P|11h|03EN|11o|15M|11.|03.|08>
|11 Ý ß |11The Bottomless Abyss BBS
|03 ß Ýß |03ssh|08.|072222 |08/ |03telnet|08.|072023 |08/ |03https
|08 ÜþÞ |08bbs|07.|08bottomlessabyss|07.|08net

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: The Bottomless Abyss BBS * bbs.bottomlessabyss.net (77:1/117)

The league ID for AB1 is 77 BTW.

Ok, AB1 is setup here.

Here is a quick summary of the setup I made:

[ABTOOLS SETUP]:

INTER-BBS OPTIONS:

[A] Mailer Type : [None] [B] League Tag (2 chars) : 77 [C] BBS Address : 77:1/117 [D] Days wait per player update : 4


PATHS:

[A] Arrowbridge Path : d:\dosemu\077ab1 [B] Inbound File Path : d:\echomail\in [C] Outbound Mail Path : d:\dosemu\077ab1\outbound


[NETMAINT.BAT]:

@echo off d: cd \dosemu\077ab1

abtools inbound abtools outbound

if exist d:\dosemu\077ab1\outbound\*.* goto export

cd \dosemu\077ab1 goto done

:export cd \dosemu\077ab1\outbound del *.msg <-- Removes the unneeded netmail messages move *.* d:\filebox\scinet echo 1 > d:\semaphore\echomail.out

:done

---END---

[077AB1.BAT]:

@echo off
break=off
d:
cd \dosemu\077ab1
abtools inbound
abridge /NODE%1 /PD:\TEMP%1
abtools outbound

if exist d:\dosemu\077ab1\outbound\*.* goto export

goto done

:export
cd \dosemu\077ab1\outbound
del *.msg
move *.* d:\filebox\scinet
echo 1 > d:\semaphore\echomail.out


---END---

This sums it up pretty much.

One important thing I noticed, you have to do a unix2dos on the nodes.abr
file in order for AB to read it properly. You may want to run it at the host before sending it out. AB will just complains you are not in nodes.abr otherwise.

I'll put it up for testing on the board and have some packets generated this morning.

Cheers!

|15 ß Þ |15StackFault |08<|03.|11.|15P|11h|03EN|11o|15M|11.|03.|08>
|11 Ý ß |11The Bottomless Abyss BBS
|03 ß Ýß |03ssh|08.|072222 |08/ |03telnet|08.|072023 |08/ |03https
|08 ÜþÞ |08bbs|07.|08bottomlessabyss|07.|08net

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: The Bottomless Abyss BBS * bbs.bottomlessabyss.net (77:1/117)

[A] Seasons follow date (Y/N) : Y [B] Hemisphere : N [C] No/Characters per player (9 max) : 4 [D] Max time per character : 60 [E] Number of turns per character : 1000 [F] Display rego name : Y

It looks like it doesn't matter as whatever I set on this side gets
replicated to the connected systems, with the exception of [F]. Funny enough, they are really close.

|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 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: % disksh0p!bbs % bbs.diskshop.ca % SciNet ftn hq % (77:1/100)

One important thing I noticed, you have to do a unix2dos on the nodes.abr file in order for AB to read it properly. You may want to run it at the host before sending it out. AB will just complains you are not in nodes.abr otherwise.

That is interesting as I created the file in dosemu using edit as I have run into these types of issues with other interbbs config files. The file should have been in DOS format already.

|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 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: % disksh0p!bbs % bbs.diskshop.ca % SciNet ftn hq % (77:1/100)

It looks like it doesn't matter as whatever I set on this side gets replicated to the connected systems, with the exception of [F]. Funny enough, they are really close.

Very good then. That makes sense but I like to be on the safer side :)

Cheers!

|15 ß Þ |15StackFault |08<|03.|11.|15P|11h|03EN|11o|15M|11.|03.|08>
|11 Ý ß |11The Bottomless Abyss BBS
|03 ß Ýß |03ssh|08.|072222 |08/ |03telnet|08.|072023 |08/ |03https
|08 ÜþÞ |08bbs|07.|08bottomlessabyss|07.|08net

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: The Bottomless Abyss BBS * bbs.bottomlessabyss.net (77:1/117)

That is interesting as I created the file in dosemu using edit as I have run into these types of issues with other interbbs config files. The
file should have been in DOS format already.

Well, this is really weird then.

For geek curiosity satisfaction sake, here is what I have in my inbound:

$ xxd nodes.abr
00000000: 3120 484f 5354 2032 2033 0a44 6973 6b73 1 HOST 2 3.Disks
00000010: 686f 7020 4242 530a 3737 3a31 2f31 3030 hop BBS.77:1/100
00000020: 0a0a 320a 4d6f 6e74 6572 6579 0a37 373a ..2.Monterey.77:
00000030: 312f 3132 380a 0a33 0a54 6865 2042 6f74 1/128..3.The Bot
00000040: 746f 6d6c 6573 7320 4162 7973 730a 3737 tomless Abyss.77
00000050: 3a31 2f31 3137 0a :1/117.

Cheers!

|15 ß Þ |15StackFault |08<|03.|11.|15P|11h|03EN|11o|15M|11.|03.|08>
|11 Ý ß |11The Bottomless Abyss BBS
|03 ß Ýß |03ssh|08.|072222 |08/ |03telnet|08.|072023 |08/ |03https
|08 ÜþÞ |08bbs|07.|08bottomlessabyss|07.|08net

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: The Bottomless Abyss BBS * bbs.bottomlessabyss.net (77:1/117)

Well, this is really weird then.

That is weird. I wonder if binkd is fucking it up during transfer but I doubt that.

Time to look further into this.

|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 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: % disksh0p!bbs % bbs.diskshop.ca % SciNet ftn hq % (77:1/100)

For geek curiosity satisfaction sake, here is what I have in my inbound:

Here is the output of my nodes.abr, which is the same file I copied to your inbound:

00000000: 3120 484f 5354 2032 2033 0d0a 4469 736b 1 HOST 2 3..Disk
00000010: 7368 6f70 2042 4253 0d0a 3737 3a31 2f31 shop BBS..77:1/1
00000020: 3030 0d0a 0d0a 320d 0a4d 6f6e 7465 7265 00....2..Montere
00000030: 790d 0a37 373a 312f 3132 380d 0a0d 0a33 y..77:1/128....3
00000040: 0d0a 5468 6520 426f 7474 6f6d 6c65 7373 ..The Bottomless
00000050: 2041 6279 7373 0d0a 3737 3a31 2f31 3137 Abyss..77:1/117
00000060: 0d0a 0d0a ....

Time for some testing....

|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 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: % disksh0p!bbs % bbs.diskshop.ca % SciNet ftn hq % (77:1/100)

Here is the output of my nodes.abr, which is the same file I copied to your inbound:

00000050: 2041 6279 7373 0d0a 3737 3a31 2f31 3137 Abyss..77:1/117

Time for some testing....

Yeah, I can clearly see the 0d0a which fits the DOS LF. However it was not
like that on my end. It looks like the file is converted to UNIX before being sent over since the file size matches on the disk vs the reported size by binkp. The file should be 10 or 11 bytes bigger to account for the extra \r.


Looking at the logs, I can see this:

+ 2020.02.10 23:46:49 BINKP 1-Receiving: ab2nodes.abr (100 bytes)

File: /bbs/echomail/in/ab2nodes.abr
Size: 100 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 801h/2049d Inode: 412778 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 1001/ mystic) Gid: ( 1001/ mystic) Access: 2020-02-11 10:16:49.244801847 -0500
Modify: 2020-02-10 23:46:49.402122112 -0500
Change: 2020-02-10 23:46:49.402122112 -0500
Birth: -

+ 2020.02.10 17:58:42 BINKP 1-Receiving: nodes.abr (87 bytes)
File: /bbs/echomail/in/nodes.abr
Size: 87 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 801h/2049d Inode: 415703 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 1001/ mystic) Gid: ( 1001/ mystic) Access: 2020-02-11 07:18:41.793529102 -0500
Modify: 2020-02-10 17:58:42.140354773 -0500
Change: 2020-02-10 17:58:42.140354773 -0500
Birth: -

This is interesting...

Cheers!

|15 ß Þ |15StackFault |08<|03.|11.|15P|11h|03EN|11o|15M|11.|03.|08>
|11 Ý ß |11The Bottomless Abyss BBS
|03 ß Ýß |03ssh|08.|072222 |08/ |03telnet|08.|072023 |08/ |03https
|08 ÜþÞ |08bbs|07.|08bottomlessabyss|07.|08net

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: The Bottomless Abyss BBS * bbs.bottomlessabyss.net (77:1/117)

Well, this is really weird then.

That is weird. I wonder if binkd is fucking it up during transfer but I doubt that.

Time to look further into this.

I wonder if there is something about the abr extension that makes binkd
think it is binary?


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--- SBBSecho 3.10-Linux
* Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (77:1/115)

This is interesting...

I'm going to create a dos text file called frank.txt and drop it in your inbound. Check it and see if binkp decides to change it.

|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 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: % disksh0p!bbs % bbs.diskshop.ca % SciNet ftn hq % (77:1/100)

I'm going to create a dos text file called frank.txt and drop it in your inbound. Check it and see if binkp decides to change it.

Here is the first line of the file:

00000000: 5468 6973 2069 7320 6120 7465 7374 0d0a This is a test..

0d0a, DOS LFs.

Let's see what you get at your end.

|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 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: % disksh0p!bbs % bbs.diskshop.ca % SciNet ftn hq % (77:1/100)

I'm going to create a dos text file called frank.txt and drop it in your inbound. Check it and see if binkp decides to change it.

I'm only seeing \n in the file, no \r.

However, I think the change happen before it's sent. If you look at my logfile here:

+ 2020.02.11 20:30:08 BINKP 1-R: FILE frank.txt 116 1581470998 0
+ 2020.02.11 20:30:08 BINKP 1-Receiving: frank.txt (116 bytes)
+ 2020.02.11 20:30:08 BINKP 1-S: GOT frank.txt 116 1581470998

You can see on the first line, I receive the expected file length from the remote process (you) being 116 bytes.

Looking at the file on disk:

File: frank.txt
Size: 116 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 801h/2049d Inode: 417814 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 1001/ mystic) Gid: ( 1001/ mystic) Access: 2020-02-11 22:10:41.403010096 -0500
Modify: 2020-02-11 20:30:08.097721787 -0500
Change: 2020-02-11 20:30:08.097721787 -0500

The file is indeed 116 bytes.

However the file doesn't contain the \r.

The original DOS file was most likely 128 bytes (which is the result of converting it to DOS on my end).

Cheers!

|15 ß Þ |15StackFault |08<|03.|11.|15P|11h|03EN|11o|15M|11.|03.|08>
|11 Ý ß |11The Bottomless Abyss BBS
|03 ß Ýß |03ssh|08.|072222 |08/ |03telnet|08.|072023 |08/ |03https
|08 ÜþÞ |08bbs|07.|08bottomlessabyss|07.|08net

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: The Bottomless Abyss BBS * bbs.bottomlessabyss.net (77:1/117)

Here is the first line of the file:

00000000: 5468 6973 2069 7320 6120 7465 7374 0d0a This is a test..

Here are the first 2 lines I got, no 0d in sight:

00000000: 5468 6973 2069 7320 6120 7465 7374 0a0a This is a test..
00000010: 5769 7468 206c 6f74 2773 206f 6620 4c46 With lot's of LF

0d0a, DOS LFs.

Looks like they are stripped before being sent (re previous message)

Cheers!

|15 ß Þ |15StackFault |08<|03.|11.|15P|11h|03EN|11o|15M|11.|03.|08>
|11 Ý ß |11The Bottomless Abyss BBS
|03 ß Ýß |03ssh|08.|072222 |08/ |03telnet|08.|072023 |08/ |03https
|08 ÜþÞ |08bbs|07.|08bottomlessabyss|07.|08net

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: The Bottomless Abyss BBS * bbs.bottomlessabyss.net (77:1/117)