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|    mark lewis to Nicholas Boel    |
|    BBSLink / Doorparty?    |
|    07 Dec 16 10:16:02    |
      07 Dec 16 08:23, you wrote to Andrew Leary:               NB> It looks like Shawn's looking for a way to pass the current logged in        NB> user's name to that script, so he can continue to pass that name on to        NB> the door game server.              if he is using 4DOS or has some way to process the drop file and pull       information out of it to use in the script, he could still use a drop file       even though the remote telnet game server doesn't need one... then by pulling       the user's name out and adding it to the command line, he would be able to do       what he is after... something like this                     set callername=%@line[door.sys,9]       mytelnet -site=mysiteID -pwd=mysitePWD -myuser=%callername%                     the @line function reads the door.sys file and stores the contents of line 9       (zero based) in the callername environment variable which is then passed to       the remote in the "mytelnet" command line parameters...              )\/(ark              Always Mount a Scratch Monkey       Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it       wrong...       ... The worst thing about censorship is **********.       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)    |
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