Subj : Re: Attention: Sysop's - I need Help with Telnet
To   : alt.bbs.lists
From : Frank Vest
Date : Wed Aug 18 2004 06:57 am

EnjoyDialup wrote:
>>I would recommend that you make a backup of the default.src and
>>default.bin files first..... just in case. :)
> I have already stripped down the default script to the functions that i
> want.

:)

> it looks like you can do a lot more than just display menus with it.  it

Lots more! :)

> i didnt think i would be lucky enough to be able to get this far into the
> guts of the program.  I'm going to have lots of fun with this.

Once you learn the BAJA language, you can do almost anything with 
Synchronet.

> Well i'm a programmer myself.  So i find this way much easier as i can cut
> and paste code to add menu keys.  In QBBS/SBBS days you had to make menu
> entry after menu entry.  it was easy for beginers, but very slow.  I also
> fine syncronet easier to add more than one ans/asc/msg file to a menu.  I
> set mine up to display three files per menu.  A static header file for bbs
> name, a semistatic file for navigation, and finaly the list of menu keys for
> the current menu.  Think of it as a webpage with three frames :)

Cool! You can probably do a lot with Synchronet that I can't do. My 
programming skills are somewhere between limited and nonexistent... 
probably closer to the latter. :)

> I wonder how hard it would be to output html code?  syncronet looks like it
> has all the framework required to be a powerfull webserver.

Future versions are slated to have a web server included. For the 
moment, look in the "sbbs>exec" directory for the "*.js" files. One of 
them outputs a dynamic web page that shows the user stats and who's 
online on the BBS. :)

> Found it. thanks.  learning the script quickly.  it is not C or cobol, but
> it gets the job done, and is nice and flexible.

Actually, it's modeled after C. Not the same in every aspect, but 
similar, I'm told.

> I noticed a lot of people are feeding usenet in and out of syncronet.  is
> there an official feed somewhere?  or do i have to sign up to a pay news
> service?

I use the newsgroup server of my ISP. As far as I know, there is no 
server run for Synchronet specifically.

If you mean the access to the Synchronet message base via NNTP, there is 
a *.js script that handles that. It's in the "sbbs>exec" directory. the 
file name is "nntpservice.js", I think.

There's also a "*.js" script that will retrieve newsgroup messages and 
import them into Synchronet.

Lots of bells and whistles yet to find. :))

> thanks again for your help.

Any time. :)

Regards,
Frank

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