Subj : Baja argument help
To   : DesotoFireflite
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Feb 13 2022 14:26:16

  Re: Baja argument help
  By: DesotoFireflite to Digital Man on Sun Feb 13 2022 04:43 pm

 >   Re: Baja argument help
 >   By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Sun Feb 13 2022 12:11 pm
 >
 >  DM> Re: Baja argument help
 >  DM> By: DesotoFireflite to All on Sun Feb 13 2022 01:47 pm
 >
 >  >> But the way I have it, it also takes the other users to the news
 >  >> message base even if there are no new messages, so I'm sure I have my
 >  >> logic screwed up. It's acting like it's not getting to the secont
 >  >> part. Below is the new file, can someone let me know where I went
 >  >> wrong. Thanks in advance.
 >
 >  >> !include sbbsdefs.inc
 >  >> !include file_io.inc
 >  >> !include dir_attr.inc
 >
 >  >> compare_ars LASTON EQUALS 0 OR REST G
 >  >> if_true
 >  >> # If New User or Guest, go to Local News Message Base and Read News...
 >  >> SETSTR "LOCAL"
 >  >> MSG_SET_GROUP
 >  >> SETSTR "NEWS"
 >  >> MSG_SET_AREA
 >  >> MSG_READ
 >  >> if_false
 >  >> # All other users, go to Local message Base, check for new messages In
 >  >> News, # and show New Messages and if no New Messages exist, do
 >  >> nothing, and exit. SETSTR "LOCAL"
 >  >> MSG_SET_GROUP
 >  >> SETSTR "NEWS"
 >  >> MSG_SET_AREA
 >  >> MSG_NEW_SCAN_SUB
 >  >> end_if
 >
 >  DM> Replace that "if_false" with "else".
 >
 > Still not working for the regular users, takes them right to the message
 > base. It's like it's not seeing the second part, and giving everyone the
 > first part. see below, I changed it as you suggested.
 >
 > !include sbbsdefs.inc
 > !include file_io.inc
 > !include dir_attr.inc
 >
 > compare_ars LASTON EQUALS 0 OR REST G
 > if_true
 > # If New User or Guest, go to Local Message Base and Read News...
 >     SETSTR "LOCAL"
 >     MSG_SET_GROUP
 >     SETSTR "NEWS"
 >     MSG_SET_AREA
 >     MSG_READ
 > else
 > # All other users, go to Local message Base, check for new messages In News,
 > # and show New Messages and if no New Messages exist, do nothing, and exit.
 >     SETSTR "LOCAL"
 >     MSG_SET_GROUP
 >     SETSTR "NEWS"
 >     MSG_SET_AREA
 >     MSG_NEW_SCAN_SUB
 > end_if
 >
 > I can't understand it, I've worked with Baja before, and I thought I
 > undersood it. I'm figuring with a new user, the last on would be 0(zero),
 > and the Guest would be a restriction of "G", hence "compare_ars LASTON
 > EQUALS 0 OR REST G", so as a regular user with no restrictions, and laston
 > field populated with a date, it should be false, and go to else, the second
 > half, but it's acting like it never sees the second half with regular users,
 > but treats them like a new user or guest. I also tried "compare_ars LASTON=0
 > OR REST G" and got the same results. My logic must be flawed. It may be the
 > LASTON causing the issue, but I don't know another way of determining a new
 > user with ars or any other method.

LASTON is initialized to the current date/time when a new user account is created. "LOGONS" is probably the value you want to be checking. It should be equal to 1 for a user's first logon.

By what you're describing, the second "else" section should *always* be executing and it's the first ("if_true") section that isn't being executed. In that case, fixing the ARS should solve that.
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