Subj : Talisman WFC screen
To   : All
From : j0hnny a1pha
Date : Fri Sep 13 2024 07:39 am

One of the things I miss from the DOS BBS days are the "Waiting for
caller" screens. Under linux, you don't get the same "oh, someone is
using the BBS right now!" sort of feeling.

Mystic has Nodespy, and Enigma BBS has a SUPER cool WFC mod, really nails
it - runs securely on its own port, etc. But I thought I'd roll my own and
see what could be done.

Essentially (right now) it's a program that parses the talisman log and
uses a text UI to display what's happening on each node. I'm working on
creating over hooks to get basic BBS indo, number of calls, last caller,
etc. Maybe even a local logon or force a mail poll or something.

One thing I'm noticing is there appears to be places where Talisman isn't
writing the user's location to the log. Most noticably when a user
returns to the Main Menu, doesn't seem to fire off a log message.

Ideally, we'd also have a way to define log messages when running a menu
item or logonevent, defined in the TOML files?

Anyway, I'll post some progress soon. It's written in Go, wo will be
cross-platform, but I doubt Windows users would need it.

Cheers!

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