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ECHO INSTALLATION FOR TOURNAMENT CHALLENGE GAME:
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With the initiation of the National Challenge Tournament game, the
installation of an accompanying echo was found to be a substantial
enhancement to the game. The echo is outside the game and gives the
players an opportunity to communicate with other players in both cities
without using valuable game time. And having members from each city
playing on the same team, this allows a player that has <<<croaked>>> or
lost track of time inside the game, the option of still sending a message
to other team members. With this game in your city only one day then
gone one day, this could be a major strategy. Once again with long
distance charges, splitting the costs is the primary obstacle.
Setting up the echo using your mailer and BBS is going to be up to you.
The only important instruction is that the echo must have the same name
on both ends. The following example will give you a simple solution of
how I've added this feature to the Challenge game but may need edited and
experimented with to conform to other mailer and BBS setups.
STEP 1:
Set up the echo in your mailer, BBS software and mail tosser if required.
If you need a separate directory for the echo, set it up. We call our
echo OOIITOUR. This is a private echo between the participating boards
and is passed to those only. Our echo is set up for private/public
messages and uses Aliases. The Alias must conform to the Alias used in
the Challenge game.
STEP 2:
Set up the routing of the Echo. This is the confusing part. Our game is
set up with game and echo passing everyday. To split the expenses, the
BBS with the game installed must poll the BBS without the game. Once the
game is passed and the poll is taken, the responsibility of polling
passes to the board that now has the game. Depending on how often the
participating boards call each other, other than OOII files transfers,
depends on what routing verbs you'll need to use in your routing control
file. Once again you'll need to figure out what conforms to you system.
In this case, I only call the other board to pass OOII files. Any other
communications between my board and the other will go with IMMEDIATE
STATUS or is included in another event. For this example we'll keep it
simple.
Since I only want to call the other board when passing
files or echo the first step is adding a GLOBAL command to
the beginning of the route control file:
HOLD 1:NNN/NNN ;receiving BBS
This verb will hold all mail for the other board until
instructed specifically to send it or the other board calls
for it's mail. If the game is in the other city and it's
that city's turn to poll, the echo will be held until that
board calls.
Next step is to insure my system overrides the GLOBAL HOLD
command when the game is on my board and polls the other
board when sending the OOII files. This can be done with
the XROBOT POLL command. This command will need to be in
the :ZIP <sending> labels. It should like this:
XR POLL 1:NNN/NNN.
This line should be added right after the XR SEND line in
the :ZIP label. Make sure XR.EXE <or whatever utility you
use> is in your path or you must change to that directory
with a command prior to the XR POLL <command>.
XR POLL <address command> will create a separate CRASH
status message in addition to the message generated by
the SEND <filename> command.
In addition to the XRobot files, an EMSI handshake with a session level
password will insure that your system polls the other system for any and
ALL waiting or hold status mail or messages that might be waiting for
pickup. Therefore, in case your POLL generated message fails to pick up
all waiting mail, the EMSI handshake with a session level password is a
good tool, because there were times that the other system would override
a generated message.
**** NOTE **** This is a very basic setup for an echo. You may need to
seriously configure (and reconfigure) this option to suit your system but
the trouble is more than worth the rewards.
Now that the two of us have been forced to READ DOC FILES, we have
learned more about mailers and their command line setup than EITHER ONE
OF US EVER WANTED TO KNOW !! <grin>