Subj : BBS Selector
To   : The Leprechaun
From : Daniel Path
Date : Mon Nov 29 2021 13:36:55

Hello The.

28 Nov 21 11:03, you wrote to All:

 TL> I was thinking of delving into the world of BBS aware development and
 TL> wanted to create a selector that launches right after the telnet
 TL> session is established.  Basically, instead of having 2 different
 TL> computers running, I want to try to get my RG and TG systems running
 TL> on one computer and give the user the chance to choose which one they
 TL> want to go to.

 TL> To that end, what's a good place to start?  Should I look at door
 TL> programming software or something else?

it was available in Xenia Mailer (and maybe other mailers) a long time ago.

in Xenia you have to set XENBBS.CFG:

for example:

; Using the RemoteAccess 'shell to mailer' method
; Make sure you specify all possible connect speeds in RA's setup!
;EXTAPP BBS \\              EXIT  dummy   My RA BBS
;EXTAPP BBS **EMSI_CLIFA8C  EXIT  dummy   My RA BBS (IEMSI Client)

; If you want to have a second BBS application, started by user key AA
; Make sure you tell the user about the keys he can or has to press, either in
; APPTEXT or in the XENIA*.BAN file
;EXTAPP BBS AA             SPAWN XENALT  My alternative BBS


--
Daniel

.... 3:31pm  up 11 days, 22:42:35, load: 77 processes, 286 threads.
--- GoldED+/EMX 1.1.4.7
 * Origin: Roon's BBS - Budapest, HUNGARY (25:25/27)

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