So, I'm curious..

Now that I have a dedicated binkd HUB system, I'm trying to come up with sane ways to make the fileechos available via ftp and http, since there's no actual BBS on the HUB itself, and I have no intentions of running a second BBS. :)

I'm curious if anyone happends to know of any Linux utils to convert files.bbs files into 00index.html, off-hand. I know it's a bit of a long shot, but hey, I want to try, else I could likely write my own in bash or perl or python or ruby..

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20 Oct 15 01:19, you wrote to All:

So, I'm curious..

Now that I have a dedicated binkd HUB system, I'm trying to come up
with sane ways to make the fileechos available via ftp and http, since there's no actual BBS on the HUB itself, and I have no intentions of running a second BBS. :)

you don't have to run a BBS to have file areas available via FREQ...

I'm curious if anyone happends to know of any Linux utils to convert files.bbs files into 00index.html, off-hand. I know it's a bit of a
long shot, but hey, I want to try, else I could likely write my own in bash or perl or python or ruby..

i don't understand why such a utility would be needed?

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Eric Renfro wrote to All:

Now that I have a dedicated binkd HUB system, I'm trying to come up with sane ways to make the fileechos available via ftp and http, since
there's no actual BBS on the HUB itself, and I have no intentions
of running a second BBS. :)

When I had Synchronet up and running I had htick tossing the files into Synchronets file areas and then import the files.bbs with addfiles.

That relies on htick having access to your Synchronet directories though
and I don't know if that is so.

I'm curious if anyone happends to know of any Linux utils to convert files.bbs files into 00index.html, off-hand. I know it's a bit of
a long shot, but hey, I want to try, else I could likely write my own
in bash or perl or python or ruby..

There were OS/2 files for this, I used to use them with Maximus but I
haven't seen anything like that for linux. If there isn't something like
that already it'd make a nice addition to the husky project though.. :)

Ttyl :-)
Al

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Re: files.bbs to 00index.html?
By: mark lewis to Eric Renfro on Tue Oct 20 2015 10:56 am

20 Oct 15 01:19, you wrote to All:

So, I'm curious..

Now that I have a dedicated binkd HUB system, I'm trying to come up
with sane ways to make the fileechos available via ftp and http,
since there's no actual BBS on the HUB itself, and I have no
intentions of running a second BBS. :)

you don't have to run a BBS to have file areas available via FREQ...

True. Since I tried out mfreq and liked it, my HUB now fully supports SRIF FREQ requests. So, that part works. My hub also runs http and ftp, so the files are available both ways. But, the problem with both of those is they lack displaying descriptions. In Firefox, at least, if a 00index.html file exists in the ftp directory, it will display the description along-side the file, which is why I wanted it. Primarily that reason alone. ;)

I'm curious if anyone happends to know of any Linux utils to convert
files.bbs files into 00index.html, off-hand. I know it's a bit of a
long shot, but hey, I want to try, else I could likely write my own
in bash or perl or python or ruby..

i don't understand why such a utility would be needed?

Just to display filename, file description, etc.. They can look it up obviously in the available files.bbs or allfiles archive, but still, seeing it inline with the file listing is all that much more coherently understandable.

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Re: Re: files.bbs to 00index.html?
By: Alan Ianson to Eric Renfro on Tue Oct 20 2015 10:34 am

Eric Renfro wrote to All:

Now that I have a dedicated binkd HUB system, I'm trying to come up
with sane ways to make the fileechos available via ftp and http,
since there's no actual BBS on the HUB itself, and I have no
intentions of running a second BBS. :)

When I had Synchronet up and running I had htick tossing the files into Synchronets file areas and then import the files.bbs with addfiles.

That relies on htick having access to your Synchronet directories though and I don't know if that is so.

I still do that with my Synchronet BBS, I just use a jsexec script I wrote to isolate it down to only file bases that actually exist in synchronet to keep things clear and precise, and only directories with files.bbs in them. ;)

I'm curious if anyone happends to know of any Linux utils to convert
files.bbs files into 00index.html, off-hand. I know it's a bit of
a long shot, but hey, I want to try, else I could likely write my
own in bash or perl or python or ruby..

There were OS/2 files for this, I used to use them with Maximus but I haven't seen anything like that for linux. If there isn't something like that already it'd make a nice addition to the husky project though.. :)

Hmm, yeah, OS/2 wouldn't be much help here. My BBS, and my HUB, both run Linux, CentOS 7 to be specific. :)

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20 Oct 15 16:44, you wrote to me:

Now that I have a dedicated binkd HUB system, I'm trying to come up
with sane ways to make the fileechos available via ftp and http,
since there's no actual BBS on the HUB itself, and I have no
intentions of running a second BBS. :)

you don't have to run a BBS to have file areas available via FREQ...

True. Since I tried out mfreq and liked it, my HUB now fully supports SRIF FREQ requests. So, that part works. My hub also runs http and ftp, so the files are available both ways. But, the problem with both of those is they lack displaying descriptions. In Firefox, at least, if a 00index.html file exists in the ftp directory, it will display the description along-side

the

file, which is why I wanted it. Primarily that reason alone. ;)

ahhh... that sounds like it is derived from the other 00index standard that some ftp servers or clients follow... i can't remember which... IIRC, though, if that file exists, it is read and the contents are sent to the client so they
can show descriptions like BBSes have always done... i don't recall if it was the client that requested it and formatted the display or if it was the server and how it sent the data to the client...

this article (literally) seems to indicate that the 00index files come from archie...

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~rohit/IEEE-L7-FTP-COLUMN-FINAL.htm

there's not a lot of info available about 00index files, though... i do remember setting up a ftp client some time back and specifically listing files.bbs as the files for it to use in the same was as 00index files... it worked fairly well but it was long ago...

I'm curious if anyone happends to know of any Linux utils to convert
files.bbs files into 00index.html, off-hand. I know it's a bit of a
long shot, but hey, I want to try, else I could likely write my own
in bash or perl or python or ruby..

i don't understand why such a utility would be needed?

Just to display filename, file description, etc.. They can look it up obviously in the available files.bbs or allfiles archive, but still,

seeing

it inline with the file listing is all that much more coherently understandable.

if the basic format is the same, just copy files.bbs to 00index... it should just work since both are simply text files... i don't know if or how any clicky
links are generated, though... i did actually write a program to export my remoteaccess bbses files databases to html files since RA doesn't use files.bbs
files... that was kinda fun but the ftp side is a bit lacking as i've never followed up with files.bbs or 00index files for that side of the fence...

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