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    From bamageek@21:1/140 to All on Tue Feb 11 16:57:35 2020
    I'm playing around with some MPL scripting and I read somewhere that somebody had some good documentation and/or maybe some good API references for Mystic Scripting. Does anyone know where I can find that?

    I'm wanting to write a script that can invoke HTTP requests and also do
    telnet. I know there are some components you can "use" but I'm really not
    sure whats available.

    Any help would be appreciated!

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  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to bamageek on Tue Feb 11 20:12:34 2020
    I'm playing around with some MPL scripting and I read somewhere that somebody had some good documentation and/or maybe some good API
    references for Mystic Scripting. Does anyone know where I can find that?

    I'm wanting to write a script that can invoke HTTP requests and also do telnet. I know there are some components you can "use" but I'm really not sure whats available.

    Sounds like you'd want to use Mystic Python for that. MPL is pretty locked down as far as getting outside of the BBS. Python gives you more control.

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  • From bamageek@21:1/140 to g00r00 on Tue Feb 11 22:03:42 2020
    Sounds like you'd want to use Mystic Python for that. MPL is pretty locked down as far as getting outside of the BBS. Python gives you more control.

    Are there some API references/documentation for this? Sounds like I've got a lot to learn! :)

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  • From bamageek@21:1/140 to bamageek on Wed Feb 12 06:48:20 2020
    Sounds like you'd want to use Mystic Python for that. MPL is pretty locked down as far as getting outside of the BBS. Python gives you m control.

    Are there some API references/documentation for this? Sounds like I've
    got a lot to learn! :)

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    Ok did some more looking turns out in my very own BBS file library (Thanks to the great folks here on FSX Net) there was a MPL Scripting tutorial. Also dug around on google and found some information on the Mystic BBS Wiki about Embedded Python so I'm gonna start digging around on that!

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  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to bamageek on Wed Feb 12 11:38:31 2020
    Sounds like you'd want to use Mystic Python for that. MPL is pretty locked down as far as getting outside of the BBS. Python gives you m control.

    Are there some API references/documentation for this? Sounds like I've
    got a lot to learn! :)

    Python is Python, so there are plenty of resources on how to do stuff with Python 2.7 on the interwebs along with packages to do various things. All of the Python 2.7 stuff applies to Mythic too.

    As far as the Mystic-specific functions there is msgread.mpy and filelist.mpy that come with Mystic as examples of read messages and listing files. I believe the whatsnew files have all of the functions documented in them, and there is a page on the Wiki that is being built with a function reference (but mostly unfinished - ask me to document a function and I will)

    http://wiki.mysticbbs.com/doku.php?id=python_functions

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  • From bamageek@21:1/140 to g00r00 on Thu Feb 13 06:49:38 2020
    Are there some API references/documentation for this? Sounds like I'v got a lot to learn! :)

    Python is Python, so there are plenty of resources on how to do stuff
    with Python 2.7 on the interwebs along with packages to do various
    things. All of the Python 2.7 stuff applies to Mythic too.

    Thanks I've been goign through the documentation and wrote a little script to test things out. So I can use regular python code along with the mystic functins from within my MPY script? This is pretty powerful!

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  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to bamageek on Thu Feb 13 12:26:16 2020
    Thanks I've been goign through the documentation and wrote a little
    script to test things out. So I can use regular python code along with
    the mystic functins from within my MPY script? This is pretty powerful!

    Yes you can!

    You should have access to the Python 2.x language and any of the Python 2.x modules out in the wild, plus whatever Mystic-specific functions I build into it.

    The combination should be incredibly powerful.

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  • From bamageek@21:1/140 to g00r00 on Sat Feb 15 14:17:14 2020
    As far as the Mystic-specific functions there is msgread.mpy and filelist.mpy that come with Mystic as examples of read messages and listing files. I believe the whatsnew files have all of the functions documented in them, and there is a page on the Wiki that is being built with a function reference (but mostly unfinished - ask me to document a function and I will)

    OK I'm lokoing through the Functin List on the wiki site. One of the commands is menucmd. If I'm correct in my assuption, I could use this to execute an Outbound telnet command to connect to a remote system? Would the command and the data for the IT command be in seperate parameters? I tried a few
    different variations but didn't get any sort of response.

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  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to bamageek on Sat Feb 15 15:56:54 2020
    OK I'm lokoing through the Functin List on the wiki site. One of the commands is menucmd. If I'm correct in my assuption, I could use this to execute an Outbound telnet command to connect to a remote system? Would the command and the data for the IT command be in seperate parameters? I tried a few different variations but didn't get any sort of response.

    Yes, you could do the IT with menucmd in MPL or MPY if you wanted to (or directly from a menu of course). In MPL it would be:

    Begin
    MenuCmd('IT', '/addr=mybbs.com');
    End.

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  • From bamageek@21:1/140 to bamageek on Sat Feb 15 20:08:04 2020
    execute an Outbound telnet command to connect to a remote system? Would the command and the data for the IT command be in seperate parameters? I tried a few different variations but didn't get any sort of response.

    I figured it out:
    menucmd("IT", "/addr=games.bbslink.net /port=23")

    One more question; Is there a way to pass arguments in to a .mpy script via data on a menu command?

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  • From bamageek@21:1/140 to g00r00 on Sat Feb 15 20:11:21 2020
    Yes, you could do the IT with menucmd in MPL or MPY if you wanted to (or directly from a menu of course). In MPL it would be:

    Begin
    MenuCmd('IT', '/addr=mybbs.com');
    End.

    Thanks I got it to work with the IT. Thought I tried it before but I got it
    to work. Never used Python before but its a really cool and powerful
    language!

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  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to bamageek on Sat Feb 15 21:21:21 2020
    I figured it out:
    menucmd("IT", "/addr=games.bbslink.net /port=23")

    One more question; Is there a way to pass arguments in to a .mpy script via data on a menu command?

    Yep. It should be:

    Menu command: GY (Execute Mystic Python)
    Data: myscript option1 option2 option3

    And then in the script param_count gives you the number of options passed to the script, and param_str(number) should return the requested option number.

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  • From Analog@21:2/123 to bamageek on Sat Feb 15 19:45:06 2020
    One more question; Is there a way to pass arguments in to a .mpy script via data on a menu command?

    Yes, you can just add the arguments after the script name on the DATA
    command. Inside Python, just use "param_str" from mystic_bbs. For instance:

    Command: GY
    Data: script_name arg1 arg2

    Then in the script:

    value1 = param_str(1)
    value2 = param_str(2)

    NOTE: param_str(0) is the name of the script. This is useful for displaying usage notes.

    Enjoy.

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  • From ryan@21:1/168 to g00r00 on Sat Feb 15 21:45:30 2020
    MenuCmd('IT', '/addr=mybbs.com');

    This hasn't ever worked for me, btw. It works in MPY, I think, but not MPL.

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  • From bamageek@21:1/140 to Analog on Sun Feb 16 08:16:39 2020

    Yes, you can just add the arguments after the script name on the DATA command. Inside Python, just use "param_str" from mystic_bbs. For instance:

    Command: GY
    Data: script_name arg1 arg2

    Then in the script:

    value1 = param_str(1)
    value2 = param_str(2)


    I think I was trying to use brackets earlier. I think I got it working:

    if param_str(1) is None:
    doorcode="menu"
    else:
    doorcode = param_str(1)

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  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to ryan on Sun Feb 16 11:41:57 2020
    MenuCmd('IT', '/addr=mybbs.com');

    This hasn't ever worked for me, btw. It works in MPY, I think, but not MPL.

    I can't seem to reproduce that issue. I tested telnet, rlogin and SSH with A45 in Linux and Windows yesterday from both a menu and MPL. I am not sure where to go with it. I did find that SSH outbound was broken at one point recently and I have fixed that part but it wasn't specific to MPL.

    I'm not sure what else to do.

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  • From ryan@21:1/168 to g00r00 on Sun Feb 16 14:46:17 2020
    I can't seem to reproduce that issue. I tested telnet, rlogin and SSH with A45 in Linux and Windows yesterday from both a menu and MPL. I am not sure where to go with it. I did find that SSH outbound was broken
    at one point recently and I have fixed that part but it wasn't specific
    to MPL.

    Excellent! I'll test it out in that case to see if it's also fixed on my end. Thanks! Perhaps it was something that was fixed at some point and I wasn't tracking.

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  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to ryan on Sun Feb 16 19:50:33 2020
    I can't seem to reproduce that issue. I tested telnet, rlogin and SS with A45 in Linux and Windows yesterday from both a menu and MPL. I not sure where to go with it. I did find that SSH outbound was broke at one point recently and I have fixed that part but it wasn't specif to MPL.

    Excellent! I'll test it out in that case to see if it's also fixed on my end. Thanks! Perhaps it was something that was fixed at some point and I wasn't tracking.

    Very possible. I think the SSH thing was fixed in A45 so at least for SSH it will probably be broken in A44 but I think the rest should work.

    The SSH thing was broken everywhere because I changed my SSH code and forgot to touch up the outbound SSH code.

    I'm planning to release A45 within the next 2 days or so and I want to try to fix everything I can before I start making sweeping changes again as I tend
    to do lol

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