Subj : Re: GoldMine - Connecting from Synchronet BBS
To   : Digital Man
From : Gamgee
Date : 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 and
 >  >  DM> 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

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.

Thanks!



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