• Lowercase archive extension?

    From Björn Wiberg@2:201/137 to g00r00 on Fri Aug 27 19:41:34 2021
    Hello g00r00!

    A quick question for you --

    I just tried to change the tar archive Extension from "TAR" (uppercase) to "tar" (lowercase).

    After the change, I changed my archiver selection to the new
    one, just to be sure that the "correct" archiver/definition was selected.

    However, when trying to create/download a compressed file list from the Files menu, Mystic creates no archive file and just returns me to the Files menu. Nothing regarding the attempted packing is logged to the node log.

    An strace shows that it reads through archive.dat, and then looks for the supposed-to-be-created archive file:

    access("/home/bbs/mystic/temp1/allfiles.tar", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

    ...which fails, then performs some more checks/cleanup, and
    finally loads/shows the Files menu.

    If you change some archive extension to lowercase (on Linux), would this possibly happen on your system as well?

    I'm running the latest A47 prealpha that I downloaded earlier this evening.

    Other than that, everything seems to be running just fine.

    Thanks in advance!

    Best regards
    Björn

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/08/22 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (2:201/137)
  • From g00r00@1:129/215 to Björn Wiberg on Fri Aug 27 14:17:28 2021
    I just tried to change the tar archive Extension from "TAR" (uppercase)
    to "tar" (lowercase).

    However, when trying to create/download a compressed file list from the Files menu, Mystic creates no archive file and just returns me to the Files menu. Nothing regarding the attempted packing is logged to the
    node log.

    I think the bug here is that Mystic is allowing lowercased input for the extension in the configuration. I believe they should always be capital letters so change it back to "TAR" not "tar".

    I will update the configuration to only accept uppercased letters.

    ... When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/08/22 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: Sector 7 * Mystic WHQ (1:129/215)
  • From Björn Wiberg@2:201/137 to g00r00 on Sat Aug 28 07:43:21 2021
    Hello g00r00!

    On 27 Aug 2021, g00r00 said the following...
    I think the bug here is that Mystic is allowing lowercased input for the extension in the configuration. I believe they should always be capital letters so change it back to "TAR" not "tar".

    Thanks! Changed back now. :)

    Best regards
    Björn

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/08/22 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (2:201/137)