Subj : Re: browse nodelist/list zone
To   : Warpslide
From : DustCouncil
Date : Tue Oct 26 2021 08:03 pm

 Wa> I've noticed in the past that Mystic will only process .### (e.g .123) or
 Wa> .Z## (e.g. .Z23) files and will ignore .ZIP files completely.  I had to
 Wa> unzip micronet.zip before Mystic will compile that nodelist.

Man, you know...

I'm glad I'm not the only one having this problem with Micronet nodelists. It's not the only one giving me troubles either.  I thought it was something I was doing wrong.

I wonder what the best way to deal with that is.  The micronet.zip file contains two files:

micronet.123
file_id.diz

[*] Is there an FTN standard for nodelist file naming/packing format?  Is this off-standard, or does Mystic just lack the functionality to deal with a nodelist packaged in this way?

[*] I am wondering what the best way to handle this situation in an automated fashion is.  Now that your report suggests it is not, as I always assume to be the case, grotesque incompetence on my part, I am experimenting with the following job to run Saturdays (the nodelists are delivered for Micronet on Friday):

#!/bin/bash

cd /mystic/files/micronet/MIN_LIST
if [[ -f /mystic/files/micronet/MIN_LIST/micronet.zip ]]; then
        unzip /mystic/files/micronet/MIN_LIST/micronet.zip
        rm /mystic/files/micronet/MIN_LIST/file_id.diz
        cd /mystic
        ./mutil ./maint.ini
fi

This seems to work.  However, it leaves the .123 file in the directory where it gets snarfed up by the file base, separate from the .zip file.  I can live with that for now.  I would have to break my maint.ini into two parts, moving the [MassUpload] to a new file.  So then:

[1] Run the above, unzip.
[2] Run maint.ini without the mass upload
[3] Delete the .123 file
[4] Run the new maint2.ini with the mass upload option so it doesn't upload the .123 file to the Micronet Nodelist file base.

I include all of this detail here in hopes someone can suggest a simpler way of handling this, not that this is overcomplicated or anything, but it requires adding complexity, which I hate.

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