Subj : [ANSI] what do you all think?
To   : Deyssman
From : Shurato
Date : Sun Dec 15 2024 08:20 pm

If you want everyone to be able to read this post, parse out the ANSI...



 De> I found myself thinking of the good old days,
 De> w / the systems that I used
 De> torun.

 De> How I found my self running RA,
 De> because  I was told that everyone
 De> "aroundhere " runs RA
 De> (Remote Access)  indeed
 De> they were all running w/ the sameconf
 De> iguration files too that was literately shared on a USB
 De> thumb  drive, asthis
 De> thumb drive was copied from system  to new system.
 De> They had different bbs file s,
 De> but it was the same hum drum cookie cutter out of the box
 De> BBS with no customization.Wh
 De> ich is why I did not stay with the plain jane,
 De> I  decided to get commercialsoftware.
 De> I pic ked up Wildcat 4.20
 De> loved it and so did  the users, but it
 De> didnot play nice with F idonet
 De> or any other type of like message base.   It was not
 De> until Platinum Xpress Sotware from
 De> Santronics came along to wherethis frontend
 De> somewhat  handled the issues with integrating fidonet
 De> intoWil dcat, but sometimes
 De> Andrea and more so w/

 De> Hector were a bit too abrasive.If
 De> y ou knew them, then you know exactly what I
 De> mean .  I used a few
 De> others systems afte r wildcat to what I am using
 De> now and formore then a few years of which is
 De> Mystic. Love it , in
 De> just about every way dueto it having a frontend
 De> , telnet, BinkD and a BBS
 De> all built in. Really Nice -
 De> But What about the blinking yellow MAIL
 De> w / the chirp indicating new
 De> netmail?That  was in frontdoor
 De> from back in the day.  The

 De> MAIL indicator should be located perilously at the
 De> following  location Idiscovered
 De> this would be optimum at x 51 y10
 De> from looking at the ans filewit hin
 De> c:\mystic\data\mis_st
 De> ats.ansThis my First
 De> atte mpt - but I know nothing of writing
 De> a script with in mysticto get Mystic
 De> to do this. I  do not even know if this is
 De> even possible? Sooooo,
 De> I wanted to share with you all the scrip t
 De> that Chat GPT under mydirection came up wi
 De> th. I wanted to see of this would work or if it is
 De> j ustgibberish and nonsense and if it was a
 De> possibility that t his could be includedin
 De> the next version if there is one ? 
 De> Thanks in advance,   
 De> Gregoryimport osimport time
 De> import winsound# Directory to check for
 De> n ew netmailNETMAIL_DIR
 De> = "C:\\
 De> MYSTIC\\MSGS\\NETMAIL\\"#
 De> Path to the ANSI
 De> fileANSI_FILE  =
 De> "C:\\MYSTIC\\DATA\\mis
 De> _stats.ans"#
 De> Coordinat es for the mail indicatorX
 De> = 51Y

 De> = 10# Mail indicator message
 De> MAIL_INDICATOR = "\x1B[5
 De> ;33mMAIL\x1B[0[0
 De> m " # Blinking yellow MAIL#
 De> P ath to the chirping sound file (replace
 De> with your soun d file
 De> path)SOUND_FILE = "C
 De> :\\MYSTIC\\scripts\\chirp.[0
 De> w av"def
 De> check_new_ne
 De> tmail():"""Check for new netmail in
 De> the  specified directory."""return
 De> len(
 De> os.listdir(NETMAIL_DIR)) >
 De> 0def
 De> update_ansi_file
 De> ():"""Update the ANSI file to
 De> di splay the mail indicator at X51,
 De> Y10."" "with
 De> open(ANSI_FILE, ' r+')
 De> as file:lines =
 De> file.readlines()   if
 De> Y - 1 <
 De> len(lines):
 De> lines[Y - 1] =
 De> lines[ Y - 1][:X]
 De> + MAIL_INDICATOR +
 De> lines[Y -1][X
 De> +len(MAIL_INDICATOR):]
 De> file.seek(0)file
 De> .writelines(lines)[0
 De> d ef play 
 De> ... Still waitng for that Coffee :)

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 De> * Origin: Capital Station BBS * Telnet://csbbs.dyndns.org *  (21:1/127)

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