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NET174 - by Richie Molinelli
v1.0 for STUNY mods
01/31/93 - v1.0 - initial release
This mod is specific to the STUNY mods and is NOT intended to work with any
other mods. The purpose of this mod is to disable the PEEK174 mod when
sending messages in Net/Echo mail conferences. Since most of the messages
contained in these conferences are not local users of the BBS, I instituted
this mod to cut down on the time it takes to search the user file so as to
encourage users to communicate more.
The implementation is pretty straight forward. You must create an ASCII file
with the extension xxxxN.def for each subboard that is a net/echo mail subboard.
An example would be:
4SALEU.DEF - subboard users file
4SALEC.DEF - subboard configuration file
4SALEM.DEF - subboard message file
*** 4SALEN.DEF - flag file as an echo/net subboard
RBBS will search for this xxxxN.DEF file when the subboard is entered, and, if
found, will disable the PEEK174 (EFND) search.
As a point of fact. There are 3 ways to institute this kind of modification.
First would be to modify CONFIG so the SysOp can set a flag for the subboard.
This would be the proper way to institute this mod. Ken Goosens had asked us
in the past to NOT modify CONFIG. For this reason we carry forward this
request and have not implemented it in this manner.
Second would be to allow the SysOp to create a file with an ASCII listing of
all the net conferences for searching by RBBS. This would save more disk space
than individual files, BUT, on slower machines with a lot of subboards, this
could slow down the users entry to the subboard considerably. This was
unacceptable to me.
Third, RBBS could search for a flag file when entering a conference and, if
found, disable the PEEK174 search. While this can take up much more disk space
I chose this method since it would be much faster for the user.
The xxxxxN.DEF file can be any ASCII file. RBBS only checks to see if the
file exists....and does absolutely nothing with it right now. This may change
in the future. A sample file SAMPLEN.DEF is included for your convenience.
You can simply copy this file to the name(s) you need.
Richie Molinelli
The Small Time BBS
Runnin' RBBS v17.4(a)/STUNY
1200 - 14400
(516) 579-7929