Subj : Re: Did NUANCE h4ck their .DIZ?! To : paulie420 From : MeaTLoTioN Date : Wed Apr 07 2021 10:46:11 On 06 Apr 2021, paulie420 said the following... pa> Funny thing I came across while adding a Revision Party 2021 file area pa> to my bbs... :P The file 'nce-nfo4revision2021.zip' had a nice pa> file_id.diz with what looked like standard ascii/ansi but crashed my pa> system when viewing the file list EVERY time... pa> pa> It was right after: pa> ----- pa> 旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 pa> 쿏EMOLISHING THE SCENE SINCE 1991� pa> 勃�1991 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� 30 YEARS 츨� pa> ----- pa> This line, which made me wonder... but when I looked inside the actual pa> .diz, their didn't seem to be any added ANSI characters or anything, but pa> it would be funny if there WAS something there that caused Mystic to go pa> B00M. pa> pa> You can find the files at pa> https://demozoo.org/parties/4191/#competition_16399 and if you have a pa> notion to find out if theres something funny amiss, doso at your own pa> risk. :P pa> pa> Once I edited the .diz, and erased that entire portion of the .diz, it pa> uploaded, displayed and listed just fine; I can even go in and view the pa> .ZIP using Mystic... pa> pa> Last thing; I was able to go in and 'v' the file in Mystic file pa> listings, because the .diz was like... the part that broke Mystic was on pa> the next page... pa> pa> so I was able to get into it. And when I pressed '!' to edit the pa> description, Mystic crashed right at the same spot! So... I was just pa> wondering; DID NUANCE h4ck Mystic... or maybe I found some bug or... *I* pa> don't know. Maybe you do. OK I found the file, and found out exactly why it's erroring for you - you need to open the textfile in a proper text editor, say "vi" or "vim" :P on the line after the last working one for you, you will see (if you open it in a proper editor) that the line contains a ^P in blue. This I don't know exactly what it's for, but you can achieve the same character by typing CTRL+V + CTRL+P while in insert mode. Hope this helps a little. I'm now on a mission to find out exactly what ^P is supposed to be for. haha. --- |14Best regards, |11Ch|03rist|11ia|15n |11a|03ka |11Me|03aTLoT|11io|15N |07컴 |08[|10eml|08] |15ml@erb.pw |07컴 |08[|10web|08] |15www.erb.pw |07컴커 |07컴 |08[|09fsx|08] |1521:1/158 |07컴 |08[|11tqw|08] |151337:1/101 |07쩡켸 |07컴 |08[|12rtn|08] |1580:774/81 |07컫 |08[|14fdn|08] |152:250/5 |07컴켸 |07컴 |08[|10ark|08] |1510:104/2 |07켸 --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/12/04 (Linux/64) * Origin: thE qUAntUm wOrmhOlE, rAmsgAtE, uK. bbs.erb.pw (1337:1/101) .