-=> mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-   
      
    ml> we used it as a door from RemoteAccess to provide email and news   
    ml> capability... never did get it set to use account credentials from RA,   
      
   Interesting way to do it.  I simply used GIGO to gate email and news to my   
   downlinks.   
      
    ml> though... you had to login to RA and then into Waffle... i don't   
    ml> remember if logging out of Waffle terminated the call or if we did get   
    ml> it to return to RA so the users could do more there...   
      
   It would have been possible to reeturn to RA, with the worst case being you may   
   have to log in again.  Because each phone call cost 25c (untimed), I added a   
   "re-login" feature to my RA board, which simply exited with a unique errorlevel   
   that caused the batch file to recycle and reload RA with the parameters of the   
   current physical modem connection, so it would go back to the login prompt.    
   Had to disable DTR on the modem, so it wouldn't drop carrier when the BBS   
   recycled.   
      
   Actually, that also survived a reboot, so I was able to make system level   
   changes (very carefully!!!) using DOORWAY (loaded as a sysop level access   
   door), reboot the system - I had a simple "reboot.com" that could do that, then   
   when I saw the modem init string come up on my terminal, I'd emulate a modem,   
   to get the BBS to respond, so I could log back in.   
      
   reboot.com was very simple.  It was a 5 byte file created in debug, and IIRC,   
   the hex values in it were EA 00 00 FF FF, which corresponded to the 8086   
   instruction "JMP FFFF:0000" - the reboot vector for that processor.   
      
      
   ... Sign my petition to outlaw this.   
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