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- Sample Simplex Menus
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- Here are some sample Simplex menus which should help you to build your
- own. They demonstrate the use of the privilege levels of menu options
- to limit access to certain features. In our sample, the following
- privilege levels are in effect:
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- New user --------- 1
- Confirmed user --- 100
- Sysop ------------ 200
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- The basic precept is that a new user can look at screens and
- information files, can yell for the Sysop, can change his/her
- configuration, but cannot access file or message areas.
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- A normal user can access message areas (except for the Sysop's message
- area) and can access file areas, including one entitled "Files for
- Sysop's Eyes Only" where he/she may upload files, but cannot see the
- contents of the file area, nor download anything from there. The
- normal user cannot do a Raw Directory, Move Files, or Kill Files in any
- file area either.
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- The Sysop, of course, has access to everything, including his/her
- passworded (second line of protection) message area (the password is
- "password"). The Sysop also has the capability of generating file
- requests in the Fidonet mail area (for a system which is on the
- network).
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- The structure of the menus presented here are as follows:
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- +----------------+----- main.mnu ----+---------------+
- | | | |
- msgarea.mnu change.mnu info.mnu filearea.mnu
- | |
- +-- ad.mnu files.mnu --+
- | |
- +-- msgsysop.mnu sysop.mnu --+
- | |
- +-- msgfido.mnu |
- | |
- +-- msglocal.mnu |
- | |
- +-------------------- fattach.mnu -------------------+
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- and each menu can call logoff.mnu.
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- These menus require the following message areas:
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- 1. Messages to the Sysop -- Local area -- Private messages only
- 2. Local Messages ---------- Local Area -- Public/Private messages
- 3. Local Fileattach -------- Fileattach -- Private messages only
- 4. Fidonet Mail ------------ Netmail ----- Public/Private messages
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- and the following file areas:
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- 1. General File Area ------ Access priv level 100
- 2. Files for Sysop's Eyes -- Access priv level 200
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- Sample Simplex Menus Page 2
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- You should acquire a familiarity with the use of the various menu
- options described in SIMPLEX.DOC before you look at the menus. Each
- one has been set up to call the others as diagrammed above. Notice the
- use of the actual view priv levels to keep users out of options that
- they are not allowed to access! For example, a user below 100 will
- neither see the option to go to the file areas nor be able to access
- it. This means that options in the file area menu do not all have to
- be set to priv level 100, but can remain at level 0. Why? Well, it
- saves you a lot of trouble if you decide later to make level 50 access
- file areas. Only place you will have to change will be the option on
- the main menu, giving people with a level of 50 or higher the option to
- get to the file areas. Since folks cannot get there in any other way,
- the file area menus are safe being left with view privilege level 0.
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