Subj : Some new-user Mystic questions
To   : acn
From : Al
Date : Sun Nov 15 2020 04:59:40

  Re: Some new-user Mystic questions
  By: acn to All on Sun Nov 15 2020 01:49 pm

 ac> Is it possible to use an external editor, like GoldED, to read/write
 ac> messages? While the BBS internal editor is nice, it is not as comfortable
 ac> as I remember eg. CrossPoint in message handling.
 ac> Does somebody use another editor and has it configured to use the Mystic
 ac> messagebase?

Yes. I use golded with hpt but you could do that with Mystic too.

Mutil has an option to export an areas.bbs file so you can use that to help get golded setup. It might need tweaking but the bulk of it is there.

 ac> I've heard (from my FidoNet uplink) that Mystic has some problems with
 ac> MIS/BinkP crashing and using up 100% CPU when a BinkP connection is
 ac> incoming - and some sysops switched to using an external BinkP daemon.

I haven't experienced these kind of problems. Mystic's built in tosser and mailer are simple and effective.

 ac> Is this still a problem in recent versions of Mystic and something to
 ac> worry about?

I don't think so, use the tosser and/or mailer of your choice.

Also, Mystic has an internal ansi editor that you might find useful.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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