Subj : last callers
To   : All
From : Xenos #1@60.Wwivnet
Date : Tue Jan 24 2023 02:38 pm


hello all,

here is my xwibbslastcaller.py script.

you can get it from 
https://github.com/ericpareja/xenos-wwiv-utils/blob/master/xwibbslastcaller.py

if you have problems with it, you can open an issue on github so i can keep
track.

make sure that you have a running python 3 installation.
you may have to change the first line to match your environment's needs.
i can only be sure about linux setups, but it should work on windows with
little modification.

two things you might need to edit in the script are:

sub="IBBSDAT"
bbsaddress="https://wwivbbs.org"

change IBBSDAT to the subtype you want xwibbslastcaller.py to post to. it
will be smart enough to find out what network it is hosted on and who hosts it.

change bbsaddress to your BBS website, or telnet address.

in your wwiv.ini, you should have a LOGON event which can be a batch file or
shell script. 

whatever method you choose, you can add xwibbslastcaller.py to the script
but make sure that xwibbslastcaller.py is called with the full path to 
DOOR.SYS.
this is the %R passed to the logon.

example entry in WWIV.INI

LOGON_CMD = /home/wwiv/xwibbslastcaller.py %R

for WWIVnet, i started the IBBSDAT sub, hosted @60. this is
Auto-Requestable. it's an experimental sub for "broadcast" data. feel free
to subscribe to it before installing xwibbslastcaller.py

this is part 1 of 2 of the wwivibbslastcaller setup. this script is
reponsible for reading basic info about the caller from DOOR.SYS and posting
a rot47 encoded message to the IBBSDAT sub. on fsxNet, this would be the
FSX_DAT echo area.

part 2 of 2 will follow when i've cleaned it up for general consumption. i'm
having a bit of difficulty making python3 write cp437 characters to a file
properly. my python2 script to do the extraction of data and generate the
laston.txt files is in the github.com repo above.

happy hacking! :)

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