Subj : Re: [Mystic] GE, MPL, and USES
To   : Accession
From : Analog
Date : Wed Dec 04 2019 19:11:10

 Ac> Unfortunately, I've never been able to grasp MPL. I've been able to edit
 Ac> existing ones to make them do what I want, but maybe since I never had
 Ac> much pascal experience, or the severe lack of documentation for a n00b

Just an FYI, I've been reversing the USERS.DAT file for a few weeks. There
are a few fields I can't figure out. One thing I was always complaining to
myself about is the even more lack of support in the PYTHON mystic bbs
module. MPL isn't bad, but PYTHON could be really capable of creating some
nice interfaces for MYSTIC. One thing in particular, I wrote a MPY file to
detect any new message since the the user last logged on. However, you have
no access to the users last login field. I also wanted to toggle FLAGS from
MPY which isn't supported yet.

So what I've done is create a single user USERS.DAT and put known responses
to all the USER's fields in MYSTIC user editor. Then whipped out my Hex
Editor and started finding offsets of all the data. The hardest was figuring
out the TIME. It's in EPOC time (https://www.epochconverter.com). 

Anyways, I plan on releasing the PYTHON support module that will at least let
you edit users. Of course the password is well encrypted so it doesn't open
up any cans of worms.

Cheers,
Analog

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