Subj : Re: Shell Suggestion
To   : Digital Man
From : Time Warrior
Date : Wed Oct 05 2005 01:12 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

  To: Digital Man
Rob,

As per my shell / dir structure change suggestion -- for pre-login and new 
user application stuff to be in effect as well, a config that asks what 
shells (or not) would be in the pre-login would be feasable.

Wouldn't be the first time a BBS has asked for that sort of input from the 
user.

This is mainly taking Mweeby into concideration for this. I'm sure there are 
alot of Blind Users who would *love* BBS's if they were more complient to 
their condition. I am also more than happy to help Mweeby work on a "Blind 
User Shell" to contribute to Synchronet.

So the first thing you'd see upon connect would be:

Please select shell:

(1) Synchronet Classic
(2) Renegade
(3) Shell for Blind Users

Why these 3 for default?

Because as for most of us not being blind, Synchronet Classic and Renegade 
seem to be the two most popular / easiest to use of the options. Option 3 of 
course allows Blind Users to immediately avoid the havoc that extended ASCII 
and ANSI raise on their text-to-speech readers.

The blind user mode would also exclude new user questions such as "Does your 
terminal support color?" and "Does your terminal support ANSI / ASCII?" where 
as for other shells it WOULD ask that.

It could also auto-disable lightbar, skip any implimented "matrix logins" and 
revert to "Is this correct? (Y/n):" prompts for Blind Users.

I must say "chatting" with Mweeby was a rather cool experience and the way 
his computer allows him to be both a Sysop and a User is pretty impressive.

So again, please concider my suggestion.

Thanks!

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