Subj : Re: filerequest.txt R) Edit File Requests?
To   : neo67
From : Ferret
Date : Tue Jul 01 2025 10:00 pm

Hi Neo,

 ne> Here is, what I know:
 ne> In Mystic BBS you can use this function to edit data/filerequets.txt.
 ne> <requested_filename> <path/to/file>

Yeah, that was pretty much my thinking as far as format went.

 ne> The function is integrated into the Mystic File Server and processes FREQ
 ne> requests that come in via BINKP/BINKD/FTN, if Mystic is acting as the
 ne> frontend mailer.
 ne> In practice, however, many sysops use the FREQ mechanisms of their FTN

It didn't appear that BinkD gave me any benefit over running Mystic's BinkD server on Linux so I do have Mystic running as the frontend. Which it does pretty well for the most part.

 ne> Does it actually work?

From my testing between my Synchronet installation and Mystic, it appears that the file request handling doesn't go much past editing the filerequest.txt file in the config.

I've decided I'm going to write my own processor to handle file requests.

Been a while since I've programmed in Pascal but I think it'll be fun.

Thanks for your input. Much appreciated.

Cheers
 Ferret

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