Subj : Re: GoldMine - Connecting from Synchronet BBS
To   : Digital Man
From : Gamgee
Date : Wed Oct 30 2024 10:46 am

-=> Digital Man wrote to Gamgee <=-

 > 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

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

OK, cool, thank you.

 > 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.

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

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

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

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

Ahhh, OK, thank you again.  For a single-word alias I'll just use the 
lowercase one then.

As for my command shell, it is a modified form of default.bin (src).  
The only changes though are that some commands have been disabled, and 
some modified to use the DDMsgReader/DDAreaChooser mods.  No changes 
made to anything related to case/caps.  The display on the remote 
website that always showed the capitalized "A" might have been something 
on that end, I would guess.  Anyhow, things are all good now with the 
command line for opening that game server door.  Appreciate it.



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