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  • Lots of empty lines in messages (^M)

    From dozo@21:1/238 to All on Mon Apr 28 13:29:45 2025
    Hi all,

    I'm running mystic on Linux, v1.12 A48. In my message base I have the issue that some messages have lots of new line characters in them, splitting messages with *a lot* of linefeeds resulting in very large messages. It's not always happening though and as of late, it looks like it's not happening to new messages.

    The linefeeds can be seen when opening the file with vi and they're showing as ^M^M^M etc. I have investigated the issue earlier; other boards don't seem to have the issue for the same message in the same network and area.

    I was wondering if I could repair my base or whether it would be possible to manipulate the files by using sed and replace any instance of '^M^M^M' to none (I'm not familiar with the file format and if it is forgiving in that sense).

    Any insight appreciated!

    Thanks,

    |15d|07ozo |11t|03gv|11b|03bs|08.|11n|03et|08:|082222|08(|07ssh|08)/|082323(|07telnet|08) |08(|07fsx|08) |0721:1/238 |08(|07agn|08) |0746:20/115
    |08(|07tqw|08) |071337:1/117 |08(|07spn|08) |07700:1/117

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: The Global Village ssh://tgvbbs.net:2222 (21:1/238)
  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to dozo on Mon Apr 28 11:07:40 2025
    On 28 Apr 2025, dozo said the following...

    I'm running mystic on Linux, v1.12 A48. In my message base I have the issue that some messages have lots of new line characters in them, splitting messages with *a lot* of linefeeds resulting in very large messages. It's not always happening though and as of late, it looks like it's not happening to new messages.

    This was a bug with an earlier version of Mystic & mutil where it would add an extra line feed every time the message base was packed.

    I believe this was fixed in A47 so shouldn't be happening with A48, though those messages with extra lines added would still be in your message base.

    Short of editing each message manually, the only other way I could think of fixing that would be to wipe out your message base and %RESCAN from your hub (provided that the Net 1 hub doesn't also have the messages with additional lines added).


    Jay

    ... I was fired from the keyboard factory. I wasn't putting in enough shifts

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/29 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)
  • From dozo@21:1/238 to Warpslide on Wed Apr 30 20:47:44 2025
    This was a bug with an earlier version of Mystic & mutil where it would add
    extra line feed every time the message base was packed.

    I believe this was fixed in A47 so shouldn't be happening with A48, though those messages with extra lines added would still be in your message base.

    Thanks jay, that makes sense. I have only run A48, so it must've been upstream. This explains why I don't have this issue in all the networks that I'm connected to.

    Thanks for explaining!

    dozo

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: The Global Village ssh://tgvbbs.net:2222 (21:1/238)
  • From Gryphon@21:1/101 to dozo on Tue May 6 08:04:17 2025
    On 28 Apr 2025 at 01:29p, dozo pondered and said...

    Hi all,

    I'm running mystic on Linux, v1.12 A48. In my message base I have the issue that some messages have lots of new line characters in them, splitting messages with *a lot* of linefeeds resulting in very large messages. It's not always happening though and as of late, it looks like it's not happening to new messages.

    The linefeeds can be seen when opening the file with vi and they're showing as ^M^M^M etc. I have investigated the issue earlier; other
    boards don't seem to have the issue for the same message in the same network and area.

    I was wondering if I could repair my base or whether it would be
    possible to manipulate the files by using sed and replace any instance
    of '^M^M^M' to none (I'm not familiar with the file format and if it is forgiving in that sense).

    I'm glad that somebody else is speaking up about this. I"ve seen this happen here on more than one Mystic BBS. I suspect the issue occurs when somebody is using some sort of OL reader that might be using a html text box when editing a message on the BBS.

    My suggestion is to isolate the messages and see if it's happening with only one or two users and ask them what method they are using to upload their messages.

    "Amy Pond, there's something you better understand about me 'cause it's
    important, and one day your life may depend upon it. I am definitely a Mad
    Man with a Blue Box."
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    ... I don't want to go!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)