MysticBBS data format structure
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denzuko · 2016-05-14 00:34

After playing around with mystic for the past several days and getting
basic linux commands(mutt, pppd, elinks) and shell scripts to work as
doors (D- menu command) and setting up a web based frontend. I've been
wanting to add a few extra utilities to the board. To accomplish this
I'm needing to interface directly into mystic's user.dat,
security.dat, and history.dat files.

Would anyone know what the file structure would be with these files?

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electronicchicken · 2016-05-14 07:06

I just installed the latest version, and found a file called
'records.112' in the docs directory.  Looks like all of the
information you need is in there.

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Mystic_BBS · 2016-05-15 02:59

Thanks for the help eChicken!

If you have any questions about interacting with the data files let me
know.  I have no idea how much I'll check in here as I've never used
Reddit, but I will try to from time to time.

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kevinlamonte · 2016-05-16 01:28

g00r00 had it GPL for a time, and there are some copies around.
https://github.com/streaps/mysticbbs for example.

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cyberia324 · 2016-10-26 15:27

I just want to point out that there's a PHP library that reads many of
the Mystic BBS data files and offers them for use for webpages.  I use
it for my BBS Wepage at http://cyberia.darktech.org:8080.

mysphp14.zip    15K     09/02/2016
[[ mystic php library 1.4/netsuge ]]
 a set of php functions to access
 mystic's data files in order to
 display information like last
 callers, system stats, node stats
 oneliners and the user list, bbs
 lists, message area lists, file
 area lists, file descriptions on
 the web. requires mystic 1.12 a31
 & web server that supports php

   orig by netsurge%miserybbs.com
  updates by Gryphon @ Cyberia BBS

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denzuko · 2016-10-29 03:08

I'm actually writing the utils in golang and node.