Subj : Re: GoldMine - Connecting from Synchronet BBS
To   : Gamgee
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Oct 29 2024 19:57:22

  Re: Re: GoldMine - Connecting from Synchronet BBS
  By: Gamgee to Digital Man on Tue Oct 29 2024 08:31 pm

 > -=> Digital Man wrote to Gamgee <=-
 >
 >  >  >  DM> Does that work with multi-word user aliases? You might have to do
 >  >  >  DM> something like this to be compatible with multi-word aliases:
 >  >  >  DM> "[TAG]%A" - the capitalize the 'A' to prevent the auto-quoting
 >  >  >  DM> and add quotes around the entire name with the [TAG] part.
 >
 >  >  > It does NOT work with multi-word alias, unless the quotes are also
 >  >  > used. Then it gets a little weird...  When using the quotes, neither
 >  >  > %a nor %A expand to the user's alias, they just show as "%a" or "%A".
 >
 >  > Yeah, I'm not surprised. The additional quotes was just an idea, but
 >  > looking at the source code now, I see there's no special handling of
 >  > quotes on command-lines within SBBS.
 >
 >  DM> Actually, I take that back, there is, so I would expect something like
 >  DM> "-s[TAG]%A" to work as you intend.
 >
 > It does, but see below...
 >
 >  >  > Without the quotes, the %a or %A work, but only with a single-word
 >  >  > [TAG].
 >
 >  > Yup, I can see how that'd be the case.
 >
 >  DM> I just committed a trivial update to rlogin.js that'll allow you to
 >  DM> specify the -s (or -c) option multiple times to build up the auth
 >  DM> string, e.g.
 >
 >  DM>         ?rlogin server -s[TAG] -s %a
 >
 >  DM> But the other way (with the quotes and no spaces) should work too.
 >
 > Thanks for the update.  Both ways do indeed work now, with this
 > difference:
 >
 > If I define either of those methods as the command line for my external
 > event/door, it works as expected, and produces this output on the
 > Goldmine site as the current user:  [PAL]Gamgee
 >
 > If I run either of those command lines while sitting at a prompt on my
 > BBS, using the ;EXEC command and then typing the command line, I get
 > this output on the site:  [PAL]%A

That's expected. I just committed a trivial change to str_cmds.js so that it *will* now expand command-line specifiers that you pass on the command-line using the ;exec sysop command, so that should work if you update.

 > So for some reason the alias variable is not being evaluated when run
 > "manually".
 >
 > Is the case of the %a or %A significant?  Both show as "%A" on the
 > output if that means anything.

It sounds like you're using a command shell that is converting the input to all-caps. Here's how it works for me using default.js and the updated str_cmds.js (and demonstrates the difference between %a and %A):

þ Main þ 0:07:22 [4] fsxNet [11] FSX BBS: ;exec
Command-line: ?showargs %a
argc = 1
argv[0] = 'Digital Man'

þ Main þ 0:07:56 [4] fsxNet [11] FSX BBS: ;exec
Command-line: ?showargs %A
argc = 2
argv[0] = 'Digital'
argv[1] = 'Man'

showargs.js is just this (for test/demo purposes):
        print("argc = " + argc);
        for(i=0;i<argv.length;i++)
                printf("argv[%d] = '%s'\r\n",i,argv[i].toString());
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