Subj : Re: Follow-up on "Some A48 issues (summed up)" (as per 07/09/2022)
To   : Bj”rn Wiberg
From : g00r00
Date : Mon Jul 11 2022 11:07 am

 BW>  BW> * FTP uploads appear to corrupt the file base. If I scroll down the
 BW> 
 BW> This is still a problem; as soon as I FTP upload a file to a file base
 BW> that already has a file, it appears to corrupt the file base. This time

This turned out to be Linux-specific so I had to set up some tests there.  The 7/11 release should fix this.

 BW>  BW> * For a normal account (not a QWK account), when selecting the messag
 BW>  BW> bases   to scan from the message menu, i.e. (MZ) Toggle new scan base
 BW>  BW> with an empty   Data field, Mystic appears to be selecting the wrong
 BW>  BW> message base when I   enter a number:
 BW> 
 BW> That one is still there. Now it appears to be selecting a message base
 BW> in some other message group? Not sure, because I can't see any changes

Yeah this was a freak accident.  Turns out when I was editing something else I accidentally hit a key and it was passing a bad default value to a function (-10 instead of -1).

I think now that I changed it back to -1 we should be okay in the 7/11 build but let me know once you have a chance to try it!

 BW> Also, a few more things (I do not know if all have been present earlier)
 BW> and suggestions:
 BW> 
 BW> * 5mooth-mist25.ans is present in the text directory of the default
 BW> theme. Should it be there? Perhaps for some gallery function or similar?

Yes its used as the ANSI in the Demos menu for File Viewer.

 BW> * When editing user flags in the user editor, ANSI escape codes
 BW> (e.g. arrow up yields a "P") toggle the corresponding flags. Would it be
 BW> possible for Mystic to "filter out" anything with an escape before it?

This isn't in the 7/11 update but should be fixed in the next build.

 BW> * When selecting a function/command in the menu editor, -R is listed
 BW> after -S.

Fixed.

 BW> * After uploading a file via FTP, the FTP command processor will
 BW> become unresponsive until upload testing has finished (if one has enabled
 BW> upload testing). Could Mystic send e.g. a "452 Requested action not
 BW> taken. Still testing uploaded file. Please wait a little and try again."

Not for now.  It may be possible to send some status codes to like the client know its being tested and when to resume but I would need to test that with various clients.

Ideally it would spawn a thread for testing but there needs to be a thread queue and a limit to it otherwise a bad actor could use it as a form of DDOS attack.  This is something I want to do but its a chunk of work and probably a low priority given how few people will actually use this feature.

I think short term is to experiment with status messages and long term is to implement a testing thread/queue.

.... The dog ate my .REP packet

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