Subj : [ANSI] what do you all think?
To   : All
From : Deyssman
Date : Sun Dec 15 2024 06:03 pm

I found myself thinking of the good old days, w
/ the systems that I used torun. 
How I found my self running RA, because
 I was told that everyone "aroundhere
" runs RA (Remote Access)
 indeed they were all running w/ the sameconf
iguration files too that was literately shared on a USB thumb
 drive, asthis thumb drive was copied from system
 to new system.  They had different bbs file
s, but it was the same hum drum cookie cutter out of
the box BBS with no customization.Wh
ich is why I did not stay with the plain jane, I 
decided to get commercialsoftware. I pic
ked up Wildcat 4.20 loved it and so did
 the users, but it didnot play nice with F
idonet or any other type of like message base.  
It was not until Platinum Xpress Sotware from 
Santronics came along to wherethis frontend somewhat
 handled the issues with integrating fidonet intoWil
dcat, but sometimes Andrea and more so w/ 
Hector were a bit too abrasive.If y
ou knew them, then you know exactly what I mean
.   I used a few others systems afte
r wildcat to what I am using now and formore then a 
few years of which is Mystic. Love it
, in just about every way dueto it having a frontend
, telnet, BinkD and a BBS 
all built in. Really Nice -
But What about the blinking yellow MAIL w
/ the chirp indicating new netmail?That 
was in frontdoor from back in the day.  The 
MAIL indicator should be located perilously at the following 
location Idiscovered this would be optimum at x
51 y10 from looking at the ans filewit
hin c:\mystic\data\mis_st
ats.ansThis my First atte
mpt - but I know nothing of writing a script with
in mysticto get Mystic to do this. I 
do not even know if this is even possible?
Sooooo, I wanted to share with you all the scrip
t that Chat GPT under mydirection came up wi
th. I wanted to see of this would work or if it is j
ustgibberish and nonsense and if it was a possibility that t
his could be includedin the next version if there is one
?   Thanks in advance,  
 Gregoryimport osimport time
import winsound# Directory to check for n
ew netmailNETMAIL_DIR = "C:\\
MYSTIC\\MSGS\\NETMAIL\\"# 
Path to the ANSI fileANSI_FILE
 = "C:\\MYSTIC\\DATA\\mis
_stats.ans"# Coordinat
es for the mail indicatorX = 51Y 
= 10# Mail indicator message
MAIL_INDICATOR = "\x1B[5
;33mMAIL\x1B[0m
"  # Blinking yellow MAIL# P
ath to the chirping sound file (replace with your soun
d file path)SOUND_FILE = "C
:\\MYSTIC\\scripts\\chirp.w
av"def check_new_ne
tmail():"""Check for new netmail in the 
specified directory."""return len(
os.listdir(NETMAIL_DIR)) > 
0def update_ansi_file
():"""Update the ANSI file to di
splay the mail indicator at X51, Y10.""
"with open(ANSI_FILE, '
r+') as file:lines = 
file.readlines()   if 
Y - 1 < len(lines):
lines[Y - 1] = lines[
Y - 1][:X] + MAIL_INDICATOR 
+ lines[Y -1][X
+len(MAIL_INDICATOR):]
file.seek(0)file
.writelines(lines)d
ef play  
.... Still waitng for that Coffee :)

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