Mystic File Areas
reddit / bbs

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garyb122 · 2021-10-21 20:49

I’m having a helluva time setting up a local file file directory in
Mystic. Here’s a few questions I have. Thanks in advance for any help.

1.      What is the hierarchy? Are groups in bases, or bases in
groups? Also, are areas the same as bases?
2.      How do I organize the hierarchy? I can’t figure out how to
specify what bases go in which group (or the other way around).
3.      I can’t get it to find a files.bbs file.

I’ve read the wiki, watched YouTube videos, and experimented
endlessly, but I can’t make this happen. Please help!

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dperry324 · 2021-10-21 21:09

There is no hierarchy in file and message areas. They are all flat.
The best you can do is group them together, as most sysops do with
their message networks. You can group your file bases  in as many
groups as you wish. You have to have an understanding of the Access
Control System in mystic in order to configure your bases to be part
of different groups.

The key to grouping the file areas is to

1) create the groups

2) In the file system ACS fields, include the ACS designation of Zx
where x is the ID number of the file group. You should add those to
all the ACS fields in the file section.

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garyb122 · 2021-10-21 21:53

Thanks! This really helps. I’ll start playing around with the ACS.
This is proving to be way more challenging than I ever imagined. I was
a sysop back in the early 90s (like everyone else), and I don’t
remember it being nearly this difficult. I ran my board on TBBS
software.

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dperry324 · 2021-10-21 22:03

I too ran a TBBS bbs back in the day. I ran the 3Com inhouse BBS
running 32 line TBBS. I've also started using Mystic BBS about 20+
years ago.