Subj : Re: [WINServer] Fast Login in WCX
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From: Hector Santos <winserver.support@winserver.com>
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Subject: Re: [WINServer] Fast Login in WCX
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On 11/18/2018 4:50 PM, Antonio Rico wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I do hope this is a help.
>
> LOGON.WCC
> ' this logon program checks for fast logon and if not, it runs the
> ' standard Wildcat!
>
> It appears it checks if 'fastlogon' is set to true or false. If true
> fastlogon, if false this no fast logon.
>
> I suppose the same concept would apply to MAIN.WCC.
>

FastLogon and LOGON.WCC are not related to each other.

Fast Logon is where the user that is logging in, places a special 
prefix character, usually '*" (asterisk) at the login prompt:

What is your first name? Antonio Rico [password]   <--- No fast logon

What is your first name? *Antonio Rico [password]   <--- Fast logon

The user MUST have access to fast logon (you do this via wcMENU)

What it does, if the user has allowed access to use the fast logon 
character, it will skip all the normal display of bulletins, new mail, 
etc, and go straight to the main menu or whichever menu the "fast 
logon" character takes you.  Via wcMenu, you can define the prefix 
character for the menu that can take you to that menu.  So you can 
have a fast logon character for MAIN (usually *), one for MESSAGE 
menu, FILE menu, one for SYSOP menu, etc, or any other "special 
private" menu for a specific user with his fast logon character.

The LOGON*.WCX script is an optional login hook that will run after 
the user login.  It is 100% unrelated to Fast Logon.   Using the 
LOGIN*.WCX method is OLD METHOD. The newer and better method is to put 
the list of WCX apps in the CONFIG\LOGON-HOOKS.TXT file:

So you can have in config\logon-hooks.txt:

app1.wcx
wc:\myapp\app.wcx
app3.wcx, 1 2 3

and it will run in the above order, even from subfolders.   In the old 
way, you have to rename them in LOGON#.WCX sequence and only from the 
wc:\ root folder.

LOGON1.WCX
LOGON2.WCX
LOGON3.WCX

But that sequence was not guaranteed because if you had a login10.wcx, 
it will be run in a different order:

LOGON1.WCX
LOGON10.WCX
LOGON2.WCX
LOGON3.WCX

etc. So that is why we went with the LOGON-HOOKS.TXT file. You can 
define the order, the apps doesn't have to be named LOGON#.WCX and it 
can also run from the different subfolder, like "wc:\myapp\app.wcx"

Hope this helps clarify the two different ideas.

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Hector, Engineering & Technical Support
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