Hi everyone!

I just noticed that viewing of ARJ archives, and FILE_ID.DIZ imports from ARJ archives, doesn't seem to work in my installation of Mystic.

I'm using the "arj" package in Debian 10:

bbs@glimmer:~$ apt-show-versions | grep arj
arj:amd64/buster 3.10.22-18 uptodate

bbs@glimmer:~$ which arj
/usr/bin/arj

bbs@glimmer:~$ arj -v
ARJ32 v 3.10, Copyright (c) 1998-2004, ARJ Software Russia.


Archive name argument missing
bbs@glimmer:~$

My Archive Editor Setup for ARJ in Mystic looks like this:

Active │ Yes
Extension │ ARJ
OS │ All
Description │ ARJ32 ARJ Utilities
Pack Cmd │ arj a -e -y "%1" "%2"
Unpack Cmd │ arj e -e -y -w "%3" "%1" "%2"
View Cmd │ (empty, as for other archive types, too)

Is ARJ working for you? If so, what does your setup look like?

Thanks in advance!

Best regards
Zip

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/25 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (21:1/202)

I just noticed that viewing of ARJ archives, and FILE_ID.DIZ imports
from ARJ archives, doesn't seem to work in my installation of Mystic.

I have the same issue with ARJ. I am also interested in an answer if there is one.

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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/06 (Linux/64)
* Origin: deadbeatz.org (21:2/123)

On 13 Sep 2020 at 02:40p, Analog pondered and said...

@TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46
@MSGID: 21:2/123 bc5182ab
@REPLY: 21:1/202 8819ac6a
@TZUTC: -0600
@SEEN-BY: 1/1 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 109 110 111 112 114 115
116 117
@SEEN-BY: 1/118 119 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 133 134 135 136
@SEEN-BY: 1/137 138 140 141 143 144 145 146 147 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157
@SEEN-BY: 1/158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 171 172 173 174 176
@SEEN-BY: 1/177 178 180 181 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 193 194 195 198 199
@SEEN-BY: 1/200 201 202 203 204 208 209 211 212 213 995 999 2/100 101
103 104
@SEEN-BY: 2/105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 118 119 120 1202
@SEEN-BY: 2/123 124 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140
@SEEN-BY: 2/141 142 144 145 147 148 150 151 152 154 155 156 158 159 160 161 162
@SEEN-BY: 2/163 164 165 166 167 3/100 4/100 5/100
@PATH: 2/123 100 1/100
121

I just noticed that viewing of ARJ archives, and FILE_ID.DIZ imports from ARJ archives, doesn't seem to work in my installation of Mystic.

Notice the 121 ...

Not sure why. I should probably update the HUBS to the latest Mystic to
negate some bug that could be in a pre-alpha still running.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

121

I just noticed that viewing of ARJ archives, and FILE_ID.DIZ imports
from ARJ archives, doesn't seem to work in my installation of Mystic.

Notice the 121 ...

Yeah, now that you mention it have seen that on some replies I have seen but I didn't connect any dots.

Not sure why. I should probably update the HUBS to the latest Mystic to negate some bug that could be in a pre-alpha still running.

That might be a good idea. Do you see a number on my post?

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On 16 Sep 2020, Avon said the following...

Not sure why. I should probably update the HUBS to the latest Mystic to negate some bug that could be in a pre-alpha still running.

Hub 4 has already been updated and it running the official release. I forgot
to send a message stating that...


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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/25 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)

On 16 Sep 2020 at 02:15a, Al pondered and said...

@MSGID: 21:4/106.1 d3690b73
@REPLY: 21:1/101 ebb9930d
@PATH: 4/106 100 1/100
100
That might be a good idea. Do you see a number on my post?

Yep, I've abridged the quoting of kludges but 100 was on display, if it was a score then you did great!

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

On 16 Sep 2020 at 11:37a, Black Panther pondered and said...

Hub 4 has already been updated and it running the official release. I forgot to send a message stating that...

I'll try to do the others in the coming days so we can see if it fixes anything.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

Re: Re: ARJ not working?
By: Avon to Al on Thu Sep 17 2020 12:13 pm

On 16 Sep 2020 at 02:15a, Al pondered and said...

@MSGID: 21:4/106.1 d3690b73
@REPLY: 21:1/101 ebb9930d
@PATH: 4/106 100 1/100
100
That might be a good idea. Do you see a number on my post?

Yep, I've abridged the quoting of kludges but 100 was on display, if it was a score then you did great!

Interestingly, I dont see the numbers.

My copy of the message (on this occassion came via Hub 2):

X-FTN-MSGID 21:4/106.1 d3690b73
X-FTN-REPLY 21:1/101 ebb9930d
X-FTN-PATH 4/106 100 2/100

I just looked on Hub 3 - and Hub 3 got it from 4/100, but not rogue "100" to be seen..

Must be another feature of Mystic - being able to see secret scores of some kind :)

...δεσ∩

... A good man dies when a boy goes wrong.
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On 17 Sep 2020, alterego said the following...

100
That might be a good idea. Do you see a number on my post?

Yep, I've abridged the quoting of kludges but 100 was on display, if was a score then you did great!

Interestingly, I dont see the numbers.

I'm not seeing them through Mystic here, but if I read them via the NNTP server, they are showing up. So there is something in the kludge lines that
are not quite right.

I just wish I could reply to a message from ThunderBird using NNTP. Every
time I try, I get a message asking if I want to subscribe to '2140'
conference. That just happens to be the message number... I'm still trying to figure that one out...


---

Black Panther(RCS)
aka Dan Richter
Castle Rock BBS
telnet://bbs.castlerockbbs.com
http://www.castlerockbbs.com
http://github.com/DRPanther
The sparrows are flying again...

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/25 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)

On 17 Sep 2020 at 10:38a, alterego pondered and said...

Must be another feature of Mystic - being able to see secret scores of some kind :)

It is strange that's for sure... thanks for the report.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 10:38:00 GMT
alterego wrote:

121
Re: Re: ARJ not working?
By: Avon to Al on Thu Sep 17 2020 12:13 pm

On 16 Sep 2020 at 02:15a, Al pondered and said...

@MSGID: 21:4/106.1 d3690b73
@REPLY: 21:1/101 ebb9930d
@PATH: 4/106 100 1/100
100
That might be a good idea. Do you see a number on my post?

Yep, I've abridged the quoting of kludges but 100 was on
display, if it

was a score then you did great!

Interestingly, I dont see the numbers.

My copy of the message (on this occassion came via Hub 2):

X-FTN-MSGID 21:4/106.1 d3690b73
X-FTN-REPLY 21:1/101 ebb9930d
X-FTN-PATH 4/106 100 2/100

I just looked on Hub 3 - and Hub 3 got it from 4/100, but not rogue
"100" to be seen..

Must be another feature of Mystic - being able to see secret scores
of some kind :)

..____

.. A good man dies when a boy goes wrong.
--- SBBSecho 3.11-Linux
* Origin: I'm playing with ANSI+videotex - wanna play too? (21:2/116)

Here's a reply with your original message. You can see the number 121
at the top of it. Not sure what it's coming from...

--- Mystic BBS/NNTP v1.12 A46 2020/08/25 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)

On 16 Sep 2020, Avon said the following...

Notice the 121 ...

Not sure why. I should probably update the HUBS to the latest Mystic to negate some bug that could be in a pre-alpha still running.

Yep, I've just taken a walk through my message areas and I don't see that in
my msgbases at all here on Mystic 1.12 A46. I'll keep looking but I don't see it here.

Are you seeing that on your BBS, or a news reader?

Ttyl :-),
Al

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Equinox BBS - Penticton, BC Canada (21:4/106.2)

Re: Re: ARJ not working?
By: Al to Avon on Wed Sep 16 2020 02:15:26

Yeah, now that you mention it have seen that on some replies I have seen but I didn't connect any dots.

Not sure why. I should probably update the HUBS to the latest Mystic to negate some bug that could be in a pre-alpha still running.

That might be a good idea. Do you see a number on my post?

I'm seeing the numbers occasionally through Mystic too but not on my SBBS point. For instance your lucky number on this one was 134. This is just while logged in and using the normal message reader, no NNTP.

I've checked the ones I've spotted against the headers for each message and there seems to be a pattern. Each number would "fit in" where a node number is missing at the end of a seen-by kludge. The line also contains a variable quantity of whitespace after the number.

eg:

[snip]

SEEN-BY: 2/116 118 119 120 1202 121 123 124 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 >SEEN-BY: 2/135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 144 145 147 148 150 151 152 154 155 >SEEN-BY: 2/156 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 3/100 4/100
PATH: 2/136 100
MSGID: 21:2/136 281ee3e5
TZUTC: -0500
134

[snip]

SEEN-BY: 2/105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 118 119 120 1202 >SEEN-BY: 2/123 124 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 >SEEN-BY: 2/141 142 144 145 147 148 150 151 152 154 155 156 158 159 160 161 162 >SEEN-BY: 2/163 164 165 166 167 3/100 4/100 5/100
PATH: 1/100 2/100
121

--- SBBSecho 3.11-Linux
* Origin: Subcarrier BBS (21:2/140.1)

On 17 Sep 2020, Static said the following...

I've checked the ones I've spotted against the headers for each message and there seems to be a pattern. Each number would "fit in" where a node number is missing at the end of a seen-by kludge. The line also contains
a variable quantity of whitespace after the number.

eg:

[snip]

SEEN-BY: 2/116 118 119 120 1202 121 123 124 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 1 >SEEN-BY: 2/135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 144 145 147 148 150 151 152 15 >SEEN-BY: 2/156 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 3/100 4/100
PATH: 2/136 100
MSGID: 21:2/136 281ee3e5
TZUTC: -0500
134

That may very well be it. The above didn't quote nicely but the 134 belongs
at the end of the first row.

[snip]

SEEN-BY: 2/105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 118 119 120 12 >SEEN-BY: 2/123 124 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 13 >SEEN-BY: 2/141 142 144 145 147 148 150 151 152 154 155 156 158 159 160 16 >SEEN-BY: 2/163 164 165 166 167 3/100 4/100 5/100
PATH: 1/100 2/100
121

This 121 also looks like it belongs at the end of the first row of seenbys.

Ttyl :-),
Al

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Equinox BBS - Penticton, BC Canada (21:4/106.2)

Re: Re: ARJ not working?
By: Static to Al on Thu Sep 17 2020 05:07:56

I've checked the ones I've spotted against the headers for each message and there seems to be a pattern. Each number would "fit in" where a node number is missing at the end of a seen-by kludge. The line also contains a variable quantity of whitespace after the number.

Also the node number IS present at the end of the line in the seen-by kludge at the point so it's being re-exported intact.

Mystic:

SEEN-BY: 2/116 118 119 120 1202 121 123 124 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 >SEEN-BY: 2/135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 144 145 147 148 150 151 152 154 155

SBBS:

Seen-by:

[snip]

2/116 118 119 120 1202 121 123 124 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134

--- SBBSecho 3.11-Linux
* Origin: Subcarrier BBS (21:2/140.1)

I've checked the ones I've spotted against the headers for each message and >> there seems to be a pattern. Each number would "fit in" where a node number >> is missing at the end of a seen-by kludge. The line also contains a variable >> quantity of whitespace after the number.

Yep, no issues on my BBBS. No problems on my own Mystic 1.12 A46 Linux/64 also. That makes me wonder if it is a windows issue but I have no windows to take a closer look.

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On 17 Sep 2020, Al said the following...

Yep, no issues on my BBBS. No problems on my own Mystic 1.12 A46
Linux/64 also. That makes me wonder if it is a windows issue but I have
no windows to take a closer look.

I don't think it's Windows-dependent.

vvvvvvvvvv

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Subcarrier BBS (21:2/140)

On 17 Sep 2020, Static said the following...

Yep, no issues on my BBBS. No problems on my own Mystic 1.12 A46 Linux/64 also. That makes me wonder if it is a windows issue but I ha no windows to take a closer look.

I don't think it's Windows-dependent.

vvvvvvvvvv

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)

Yep, there is something sneaky going on here!

I've tried to see it here but it is nowhere to be found. I guess that is a
good thing but it makes me wonder.. what the..

Ttyl :-),
Al

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Equinox BBS - Penticton, BC Canada (21:4/106.2)

Yep, no issues on my BBBS. No problems on my own Mystic 1.12 A46 Linux/64 also. That makes me wonder if it is a windows issue but

This thread was hijacked! :)


What happened to original post this thread was asking about? Anyone answer why ARJ is not working on Mystic?

Cheers?

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|08└─┘├─┐ |08:>.|07A|08rk |0710|08:|07101|08/|0714|08.
|04■ |08└|20|15─|16|08┘ |08:>.|10A|02gn |1046|08:|101|08/|10123|08.
|04A|07n|15al|07o|08g |08:>.|12F|04sx |1221|08:|122|08/|12123|08.
|04.|08dPR|04. |08:>.|15S|07ci |1577|08:|151|08/|15131|08. |04░▒░|08▒██▄▌|08:>.|11T|03qw |111337|08:|113|08/|1113|08.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/06 (Linux/64)
* Origin: deadbeatz.org (21:2/123)

This thread was hijacked! :)

Opps!

What happened to original post this thread was asking about? Anyone answer why
ARJ is not working on Mystic?

I haven't seen any answers and I am not sure just how well ARJ works with Mystic since I haven't seen an ARJ archive in yonks.

I keep unarj and unrar here for those times when I need to unpack and ARJ or RAR archive.

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