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FastLog/IEMSI PEX for ProBoard BBS Version 2.1x
18th April 1996
FastLog/IEMSI was written and Designed by Faye Pearson.
FastLog/IEMSI Documention was written by Sarah Pearson.
Overview of FastLog/IEMSI v3.10
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This is a brief overview of the functions that FastLog/IEMSI currently
supports. For a detailed description and how to implement these functions
please read MANUAL.TXT.
■ IEMSI : IEMSI is a protocol that allows your Users to log into your
BBS without having to type in their name and password.
■ Scrolling Welcome Text on the Login Screen.
To help make you login ANSI look distinctive you can add a line of
scrolling text. You can position this text anywhere on the screen, but
only horizontal.
■ Toggle whether you want Full IEMSI logging or just the name of the IEMSI
User logged.
■ New User IEMSI Questions.
FastLog/IEMSI uses its own New User Questions that look and act exactly
the same as the Internal ProBoard New User Questions.
Most questions are fully configurable from within ProCfg and only those
that have been enabled will be asked.
IEMSI New User support is built in so IEMSI New Users will find some of
the questions answered automatically, using information contained in
their IEMSI handshake packet.
■ Check the Users name and if their first name is 1 character long or the
second character contains either .,- then optionally define if the
Username is refused.
■ The following .A??, PEX and Q-A files are hardcoded to be displayed if
they exist.
NEWUSER.A?? NEWUSER1.A?? NEWUSER2.A??
NEWUSER.PEX NEWUSER1.PEX NEWUSER2.PEX
NEWUSER.Q-A TRASHCAN.A??
■ The ANSI/AVATAR/AVTPLUS New User Questions default to the detected
terminal emulation of the New User. Pressing <ENTER> through these
questions will in most cases give the right results.
■ Added a New User Question to ask for their Default Protocol when
completing the New User Login.
■ Post a Sysop definable message to a New User for reading on their 1st
call. The message can be posted to a message area that is setup as both
Private and Public by setting the NewPvtMsg option to YES.
■ Post a message to the Sysop with useful New User Information.
■ Position the Login Langauge prompts anywhere you want.
■ Displays BEFOREPW.A?? and AFTERPW.A?? files.
■ Duplicate Password, Date of Birth and Telephone Number Checking.
■ Force ON ClearScreen, Hotkeys or More Prompt for New Users.
■ Define whether or not to enable all QWK or New Mail Scan areas for New
Users.
This option allows you to automtically turn ON all Message Areas for
Personal Mail Scan and/or QWK Combined Mail Boards.
■ Force a New User into ANSI.
This option will allow you to stop New Users using ASCII on your BBS.
■ Fixed ProBoard problem of displaying in ANSI when the New User answered
NO to the "Do you want to use ANSI" "AVATAR" "AVATAR+" questions.
The Users settings are changed *immediately* after the questions are
asked.
■ If the New User doesn't select ANSI/AVATAR/AVATAR+ when filling out the
New User Questions, then FastLog/Log will NOT ask the "Do you want to
use the Fullscreen Editor?" question.
■ If there is a <Carriage Return> in the buffer after the New User answers
YES to I am a New User, then the "Available Language" Question is NOT
answered automatically to the default.
■ Set New User Expiry Level, Expiry Flags and Number of Days for Expiry.
■ Set the number of lines in the "What is your mailing address?" prompt
that have to contain some text input.
■ Allows an existing User to use a sysop-definable character in front of
their User Name thus allowing the User to more quickly get to the part of
the BBS that they want to use. For example, go directly to Offline Mail
Doors without going through the menus or skip ANSI screens and go
directly to a menu. This could be a quite powerful function.
■ Allow the User to put their password on the same line as their username.
■ Logins are now possible when only the CRC is stored for the password.
■ Save the Password in the Password field if a Users Record only contains
the Password CRC.
■ Restrict Nodes by Modem Speed.
■ Restrict Nodes by Security Level.
■ Allow New Users to log onto a node when MinSecNode is set to a security
level higher than that assigned to New Users.
■ Still use your @a...@ and @p....@ Langauge Prompts.
If you use a pex in your "Please enter your password " language prompt,
then you can still use it. :-)
■ Uses the Users selected Langauge prompt. No need to use 1483454 million
.INI files for each language you require.
■ All New User Information and Flags are read directly from CONFIG.PRO.
■ The ProBoard TRASHCAN.CTL is implemented.
■ MultiTasker Aware.
FastLog/IEMSI can detect and support the following multitaskers :
Windows 3.x, Windows 95 and DesqView and OS/2
■ Other Useful FastLog/IEMSI Options.
■ If a user doesn't login successfuly, providing the Procfg/Security/Write
Password Failures option is enabled, a message is posted to the Sysop,
User and to the log file for that node. Whatever the setting, the User
is asked if they would like to leave a message to the Sysop.
■ If a GUEST User logins then, FastLog/IEMSI will not ask for the
password if the password field in the User Record is blank.
[They do not have to be called GUEST, just have the GUEST Flag]
■ If a user is locked out of the System, then the ProBoard Langauge prompt
telling them "You are locked out of the system!" is displayed and also
an explanation can be displayed by using %a in the prompt. The Comment
field in the User's Record is where you store the reason.
■ Procfg's Allow Quick Logon function for Sysop is fully supported in
either YES or NO mode. As is the Default Language.
■ All flags that are defined in LOGIN.INI are cleared for that user on
their next call. Unless of course they use the same options again on
their next call.
■ You can use the @a.....@ command (in your prompts) as specified in the
ProBoard manual to display an ANSI/ASCII file to the user during login.
■ All password failures are logged in the correct node directory log file.
■ Minimum Password length is taken from ProCfg.
ASK.PEX is included in this archive to make IEMSI Mail, File and News requests
automated.
ASK *can* also be run without IEMSI, in which case the caller is prompted if
they would like to check for new mail, files and news depending on the
parameters passed.
BUSY.PEX
BUSY will make the current node unavilable for multinode chat. This pex will
work automatically if the User logs in with IEMSI and has HUSH in their
IEMSI handshake packet.
BUSY can also be run without IEMSI, maybe as a menu option.
--
Sarah & Faye, sysops@fe-line.demon.co.uk Home of Fe-line Software
http://www.win-uk.net/~fe-line ftp://ftp.win-uk.net/pub/users/fe-line
ProBoard *UK* Registration and Support Site ProBoard Beta Team
SCiNET European Zone Coordinator PSN *UK* Regional Coordinator
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