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File Base Settings
This section of the Mystic BBS Configuration System allows the SysOp to configure a number of settings that apply to the file base system in Mystic BBS. Here you can define how you wish duplicate file checking to be handled as well as configure various Access Command System (ACS) settings. There are areas here that you will want to update from their default settings.
This example screen is from a Windows based system and displays the standard 'out of the box' settings that ship with the default installation.
█▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ File Base Settings ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▄ █ █ █ List Compression │ Yes Auto Validate │ s0 █ █ List Columns │ 2 See Unvalidated │ s255 █ █ Bases in Groups │ Yes DL Unvalidated │ s255 █ █ Reshow File Header │ No See Failed │ s255 █ █ Upload Dupe Scan │ All DL Failed │ s255 █ █ Upload Base │ 0 See Offline │ █ █ Description Lines │ 99 Min Upload Space │ 0 █ █ Import FILE_ID.DIZ │ Yes Min CD-ROM Space │ 0 █ █ Max Comment Lines │ 10 Default Protocol │ Z █ █ Test Uploads │ No █ █ Pass Level │ 0 █ █ Command Line │ █ █ █ ▀▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█
List Compression
This option, if toggled on, will compress file area numbers so they are always sequential during a file area list. So in a file area list, if a user does not have access to area number 2, then the next area that the user does have access to will become area number 2.
List Columns
This option allows the number of columns used in the file area lists to be configured. Valid options are 1 or 2 columns.
Bases in Groups
Reshow File Header
Upload Dupe Scan
Upload Base
This option defines the default upload base. When this is set to zero (disabled), all uploaded files will go into the user's currently selected file base. If set to a non-zero value, all uploads will be uploaded to the set file base number (as listed in the file base editor).
Description Lines
This option defines the maximum number of file description lines which can be used for each file entry. It must be within the range of 1 to 99.
Import FILE_ID.DIZ
This option, if toggled on, will allow Mystic BBS to search all uploaded files for a FILE_ID.DIZ file. The FILE_ID.DIZ file is included in many archives and contains a description of the file. If this file is found, Mystic BBS will automatically read the description and use it as the file description in the file listing.
Max Comment Lines
Test Uploads
Pass Level
Command Line
Auto Validate
This option defines the ACS string a user must pass in order for the files they upload to be marked as validated. If they do not pass this ACS string, the files will be marked as unvalidated.
See Unvalidated
This option defines the ACS string a user must pass in order for unvalidated files to appear in a file listing.
DL Unvalidated
This option defines the ACS string a user must pass in order to download a file that is marked as unvalidated
See Failed
If upload testing is toggled on and a file fails the upload test, they will be marked as “failed”. This option defines the ACS a user must have to see files which have failed the upload test in their file listing.
DL Failed
This option defines the ACS a user must meet in order to download a file which has been marked as “failed”.
See Offline
Min Upload Space
Mystic BBS has the option to refuse to accept uploaded files when drive space gets low. This option sets the number of kilobytes that must exist in order for Mystic BBS to accept uploads. If this option is set to zero (0), it will be disabled.
Min CD-ROM Space
This option specifies the number of kilobytes which must be available on the BBS drive for Mystic BBS to use it's CD-ROM copy feature. When a file area is marked as a “CD-ROM” file area, Mystic BBS will attempt to copy files from the CD-ROM to the temporary directory before a user downloads it. This is a legacy feature designed to keep the access to the CD-ROM drive minimal, since CD drives are slower than a hard drive.
Default Protocol
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