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    From Al@21:4/106 to All on Sunday, August 05, 2018 11:04:02
    Hello All,

    I have (I think I have) setup my mailer here to honour file requests but I am not sure that it works. If any of you have the ability to send a file request can you try to send one to my node and let me know if it works as expected.

    I have these magic names setup here..

    GAMENET will get you the latest gamenet info pack
    NODELIST will get you the latest nodelist
    NODEDIFF will get you the latest nodediff

    Also just a file from my filebase, ftnnv.zip is a JS nodelist browser for Synchronet. It is 90K. I choose that file at random, simply because I know it exists here.. :)

    If anyone could test that out and let me know the result it would be appreciated.. :)

    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Al on Monday, August 06, 2018 10:40:48
    On 08/05/18, Al pondered and said...

    I have (I think I have) setup my mailer here to honour file requests but
    I am not sure that it works. If any of you have the ability to send a
    file request can you try to send one to my node and let me know if it works as expected.


    I'm going to need to get some lessons on this from you.

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  • From Al@21:4/106 to Avon on Sunday, August 05, 2018 19:19:06
    Re: Re: File requests
    By: Avon to Al on Mon Aug 06 2018 10:40 am

    I have (I think I have) setup my mailer here to honour file requests
    but I am not sure that it works. If any of you have the ability to
    send a file request can you try to send one to my node and let me
    know if it works as expected.

    I'm going to need to get some lessons on this from you.

    It's easy to do with FD although I don't have it setup here and don't recall exactly how I did it but I gave FD a file with a list of directories to scan for incoming file requests.

    I believe FD can be setup with binkd also as an external file request processor although I have never done this. The setup might be a bit more involved but would work just as well if I'm not mistaken.

    I'm not sure if Mystic can do this but Synchronet's binkit mailer does this (although untested here) with the help of additional JavaScript files.

    We'd have to test all that out but I think it's doable.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to Avon on Monday, August 06, 2018 16:38:34
    file request can you try to send one to my node and let me know if
    it works as expected.

    I'm going to need to get some lessons on this from you.

    You create a *.req file with the address of the system in hex, then in
    that file is a list of files you want from the remote system.

    If everyting is working, when your system sends that file, the remote
    system should send you the files you asked for.



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  • From Al@21:4/106 to vorlon on Sunday, August 05, 2018 23:54:38
    Re: Re: File requests
    By: vorlon to Avon on Mon Aug 06 2018 04:38 pm

    You create a *.req file with the address of the system in hex, then in that file is a list of files you want from the remote system.

    If everyting is working, when your system sends that file, the remote system should send you the files you asked for.

    Yeah, I think that's it. In the case of binkd you will also need to create a .clo file to go along with it to trigger a poll.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to vorlon on Monday, August 06, 2018 19:47:02
    On 08/06/18, vorlon pondered and said...

    I'm going to need to get some lessons on this from you.

    You create a *.req file with the address of the system in hex, then in that file is a list of files you want from the remote system.

    If everyting is working, when your system sends that file, the remote system should send you the files you asked for.

    Thanks, it's not something I ever really played with and I take it a mailer like BinkD would then pass the REQ to something like Allfix etc?

    It's not something Mystic handles at present.

    Best, Paul

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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to Al on Tuesday, August 07, 2018 16:20:08
    If everyting is working, when your system sends that file, the
    remote system should send you the files you asked for.

    Yeah, I think that's it. In the case of binkd you will also need to

    Yes that is it, with on binkd needing a *.?lo file, with the path to the
    *.req file.




    \/orlon


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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to Avon on Tuesday, August 07, 2018 16:21:32
    Thanks, it's not something I ever really played with and I take it a mailer like BinkD would then pass the REQ to something like Allfix etc?

    It was very much a thing back in the day of dial-up modems.

    It's not something Mystic handles at present.

    NO mystic doesn't support file req's yet.




    \/orlon


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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to vorlon on Tuesday, August 07, 2018 19:56:48
    On 08/07/18, vorlon pondered and said...

    It was very much a thing back in the day of dial-up modems.

    Yeah I recall it but just never really ever used it... was into messages back then more so than files... some things never change :)

    It's not something Mystic handles at present.

    NO mystic doesn't support file req's yet.

    Yep..

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to vorlon on Wednesday, August 08, 2018 08:37:00
    On 08-07-18 16:21, vorlon wrote to Avon <=-

    Thanks, it's not something I ever really played with and I take it a
    mailer like BinkD would then pass the REQ to something like Allfix etc?

    It was very much a thing back in the day of dial-up modems.

    Yes, and there were a lot of tools around for easily generating FREQs. :)


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Avon on Wednesday, August 08, 2018 08:39:00
    On 08-07-18 19:56, Avon wrote to vorlon <=-

    On 08/07/18, vorlon pondered and said...

    It was very much a thing back in the day of dial-up modems.

    Yeah I recall it but just never really ever used it... was into
    messages back then more so than files... some things never change :)

    I used FREQ occasionally, when someone had something I really wanted/needed.


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  • From bcw142@21:1/145.3 to vorlon on Tuesday, August 07, 2018 09:23:38
    On 08/07/18, vorlon said the following...

    Thanks, it's not something I ever really played with and I take it a mailer like BinkD would then pass the REQ to something like Allfix etc

    It was very much a thing back in the day of dial-up modems.

    Yes, mystic isn't doing it yet, but hatching files is a step in that
    direction. You have to be able to hatch files to send them to a node. Then a setup like the one currently used in messages needs to be added and you get files to a node. It is quite possible. Another likely thing is encryption since ssh is now working in mystic. Most importantly where passwords are involved.

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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to Avon on Friday, August 10, 2018 14:17:22
    It was very much a thing back in the day of dial-up modems.

    Yeah I recall it but just never really ever used it... was into messages

    back then more so than files... some things never change :)

    It was still a way to quickly get a file and not have to loginto the
    remote bbs. @-)


    It's not something Mystic handles at present.

    NO mystic doesn't support file req's yet.

    Yep..

    When james comes back I have another feature request:
    user to user file transfer, so I can send a user a file and it not end up
    in the file base.




    \/orlon


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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to Vk3jed on Friday, August 10, 2018 14:21:38
    It was very much a thing back in the day of dial-up modems.

    Yes, and there were a lot of tools around for easily generating FREQs. :)

    Some of the software even had it built right in.




    \/orlon


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to vorlon on Friday, August 10, 2018 20:30:00
    On 08-10-18 14:21, vorlon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    It was very much a thing back in the day of dial-up modems.

    Yes, and there were a lot of tools around for easily generating FREQs. :)

    Some of the software even had it built right in.

    That too. :)


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