One of the things I miss from the DOS BBS days are the "Waiting for
caller" screens. Under linux, you don't get the same "oh, someone is
using the BBS right now!" sort of feeling.

Mystic has Nodespy, and Enigma BBS has a SUPER cool WFC mod, really nails
it - runs securely on its own port, etc. But I thought I'd roll my own and
see what could be done.

Essentially (right now) it's a program that parses the talisman log and
uses a text UI to display what's happening on each node. I'm working on creating over hooks to get basic BBS indo, number of calls, last caller,
etc. Maybe even a local logon or force a mail poll or something.

One thing I'm noticing is there appears to be places where Talisman isn't writing the user's location to the log. Most noticably when a user
returns to the Main Menu, doesn't seem to fire off a log message.

Ideally, we'd also have a way to define log messages when running a menu
item or logonevent, defined in the TOML files?

Anyway, I'll post some progress soon. It's written in Go, wo will be cross-platform, but I doubt Windows users would need it.

Cheers!

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One of the things I miss from the DOS BBS days are the "Waiting for
caller" screens. Under linux, you don't get the same "oh, someone is
using the BBS right now!" sort of feeling.

Essentially (right now) it's a program that parses the talisman log
and uses a text UI to display what's happening on each node. I'm
working on creating over hooks to get basic BBS indo, number of calls,
last caller, etc. Maybe even a local logon or force a mail poll or something.

Sounds cool, and simple. (Hmm... inotify?)

Anyway, I'll post some progress soon. It's written in Go, so it will be cross-platform, but I doubt Windows users would need it.

I'll look forward to taking a peek at it... in action and the code.

Take Care,
Apollo


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* Origin: Lunar Mod (21:1/236)

Hi J0Hnny,
In a message to All you wrote:

menu item or logonevent, defined in the TOML files?

If it's not in there, I don't think that would be a hard thing to add.
I wrote logging into a couple of doors years ago.

Anyway, I'll post some progress soon. It's written in Go, wo will be cross-platform, but I doubt Windows users would need it.

I ran Talisman under windows for quite a while, I would use it under
windows. Could have the "WFC" screen running on a desktop
and have it connect to another computer on the LAN that was running
headless.

Either way good idea, and look foward to seeing screenshots.

Shawn


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I ran Talisman under windows for quite a while, I would use it under windows. Could have the "WFC" screen running on a desktop
and have it connect to another computer on the LAN that was running headless.

Either way good idea, and look foward to seeing screenshots.

Nice! Just a lil' proof of concept, dirt simple:

https://github.com/robbiew/talisman-wfc

|07 .'|08.
|07 ||15o|08| |03J0hnny A1pha
|07 .'|15o|08'. |06gOLD mINE HQ
|07 |.-.|08| |08---------------------
|07 '|14( |12)|08' |05SpaceJunkBBS.com|13:|052323
|07 |12)

--- Talisman v0.54-dev (Linux/x86_64)
* Origin: Space Junk! BBS :: SpaceJunkBBS.com:2323 (21:4/158)