So, I had an issue when I migrated my BBS from one server to another, when I re-added all the files using addfiles, all the files' descriptions never got the long description as from the FILE_ID.DIZ, so I have a lot of one-line descriptions all crumpled up.

I'm trying to fix this, and would like to know how the best means to do this would be so I can get them all done properly. This is is a current build of Synchronet 3.17 (CVS) for Linux.

Any thoughts on how to "reprocess" the files to pull in the extended descriptions properly?

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Re: Files and Descriptions
By: Psi-Jack to All on Thu Jul 18 2019 05:42 am

So, I had an issue when I migrated my BBS from one server to another, when I re-added all the files using addfiles, all the files' descriptions never got the long description as from the FILE_ID.DIZ, so I have a lot of one-line descriptions all crumpled up.

I'm trying to fix this, and would like to know how the best means to do this would be so I can get them all done properly. This is is a current build of Synchronet 3.17 (CVS) for Linux.

Any thoughts on how to "reprocess" the files to pull in the extended descriptions properly?

There were bugs w/DIZ importing in addfiles revs 1.55 through 1.57, now fixed.

digital man

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Re: Files and Descriptions
By: Digital Man to Psi-Jack on Thu Jul 18 2019 04:10 pm

So, I had an issue when I migrated my BBS from one server to another,
when I re-added all the files using addfiles, all the files'
descriptions never got the long description as from the FILE_ID.DIZ,
so I have a lot of one-line descriptions all crumpled up.

I'm trying to fix this, and would like to know how the best means to
do this would be so I can get them all done properly. This is is a
current build of Synchronet 3.17 (CVS) for Linux.

There were bugs w/DIZ importing in addfiles revs 1.55 through 1.57, now fixed.

Thank you so much for helping with this. When I have time, I may end up trying to see what I can do to make a javascript solution for this to ultimately replace addfiles.c with addfiles.js. At least start with it, anyway. ;)

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Re: Files and Descriptions
By: Psi-Jack to Digital Man on Thu Jul 18 2019 09:01 pm

Re: Files and Descriptions
By: Digital Man to Psi-Jack on Thu Jul 18 2019 04:10 pm

So, I had an issue when I migrated my BBS from one server to another,
when I re-added all the files using addfiles, all the files'
descriptions never got the long description as from the FILE_ID.DIZ,
so I have a lot of one-line descriptions all crumpled up.

I'm trying to fix this, and would like to know how the best means to
do this would be so I can get them all done properly. This is is a
current build of Synchronet 3.17 (CVS) for Linux.

There were bugs w/DIZ importing in addfiles revs 1.55 through 1.57, now fixed.

Thank you so much for helping with this. When I have time, I may end up trying to see what I can do to make a javascript solution for this to ultimately replace addfiles.c with addfiles.js. At least start with it, anyway. ;)

Until there's a FileBase object (similar to the JS MsgBase object), a solution in pure JS probably isn't that practical (not impossible, just not practical). Otherwise, I'd have already done it I think. :-)

digital man

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Re: Files and Descriptions
By: Digital Man to Psi-Jack on Thu Jul 18 2019 07:19 pm

Until there's a FileBase object (similar to the JS MsgBase object), a solution in pure JS probably isn't that practical (not impossible, just not practical). Otherwise, I'd have already done it I think. :-)

A while ago, I noticed echicken (and I think Deuce too) put together some filebase access scripts in JS. In exec, there's filearea-lb.js (for changing & listing file areas in JS), and in load, there's filebase.js, filebrowser.js, filedir.js, and file_size.js. I think they do some trickery to parse the binary filebase files to provide that information to JS scripts.

Nightfox

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Re: Files and Descriptions
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Jul 18 2019 20:59:11

A while ago, I noticed echicken (and I think Deuce too) put together some filebase access scripts in JS. In exec, there's filearea-lb.js (for changing & listing file areas in JS), and in load, there's filebase.js, filebrowser.js, filedir.js, and file_size.js. I think they do some trickery to parse the binary filebase files to provide that information to JS scripts.

IIRC filedir.js was some quick thing I hacked together to read the file library stuff. filebase.js is a
more efficient one that Deuce made; I think I fixed a bug or two in it later on.

filebrowser.js might actually be a filesystem browser. I think it's a library. I believe it's used as
the browser module in ANSIView.

filearea-lb.js would be the thing that actually browses file libraries/directories. I think it's okay
but needs some stuff added to it. Kind of a 90% finished project, but usable.

I believe file_size.js is for converting file sizes to more human-friendly strings (1Mb, 100Kb, etc.)

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Re: Files and Descriptions
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Jul 18 2019 08:59 pm

Re: Files and Descriptions
By: Digital Man to Psi-Jack on Thu Jul 18 2019 07:19 pm

Until there's a FileBase object (similar to the JS MsgBase object), a solution in pure JS probably isn't that practical (not impossible, just not practical). Otherwise, I'd have already done it I think. :-)

A while ago, I noticed echicken (and I think Deuce too) put together some filebase access scripts in JS. In exec, there's filearea-lb.js (for changing & listing file areas in JS), and in load, there's filebase.js, filebrowser.js, filedir.js, and file_size.js. I think they do some trickery to parse the binary filebase files to provide that information to JS scripts.

Yeah, and they're going to be obsolete pretty soon. :-(

digital man

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