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   Re: [WINServer] Fast Login in WCX   
   19 Nov 18 11:19:10   
   
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   Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 12:19:10 -0500   
   From: Hector Santos    
   Organization: Santronics Software, Inc   
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   Subject: Re: [WINServer] Fast Login in WCX   
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   On 11/18/2018 4:50 PM, Antonio Rico wrote:   
   > Hi,   
   >   
   > I do hope this is a help.   
   >   
   > LOGON.WCC   
   > ' this logon program checks for fast logon and if not, it runs the   
   > ' standard Wildcat!   
   >   
   > It appears it checks if 'fastlogon' is set to true or false. If true   
   > fastlogon, if false this no fast logon.   
   >   
   > I suppose the same concept would apply to MAIN.WCC.   
   >   
      
   FastLogon and LOGON.WCC are not related to each other.   
      
   Fast Logon is where the user that is logging in, places a special    
   prefix character, usually '*" (asterisk) at the login prompt:   
      
   What is your first name? Antonio Rico [password]   <--- No fast logon   
      
   What is your first name? *Antonio Rico [password]   <--- Fast logon   
      
   The user MUST have access to fast logon (you do this via wcMENU)   
      
   What it does, if the user has allowed access to use the fast logon    
   character, it will skip all the normal display of bulletins, new mail,    
   etc, and go straight to the main menu or whichever menu the "fast    
   logon" character takes you.  Via wcMenu, you can define the prefix    
   character for the menu that can take you to that menu.  So you can    
   have a fast logon character for MAIN (usually *), one for MESSAGE    
   menu, FILE menu, one for SYSOP menu, etc, or any other "special    
   private" menu for a specific user with his fast logon character.   
      
   The LOGON*.WCX script is an optional login hook that will run after    
   the user login.  It is 100% unrelated to Fast Logon.   Using the    
   LOGIN*.WCX method is OLD METHOD. The newer and better method is to put    
   the list of WCX apps in the CONFIG\LOGON-HOOKS.TXT file:   
      
   So you can have in config\logon-hooks.txt:   
      
   app1.wcx   
   wc:\myapp\app.wcx   
   app3.wcx, 1 2 3   
      
   and it will run in the above order, even from subfolders.   In the old    
   way, you have to rename them in LOGON#.WCX sequence and only from the    
   wc:\ root folder.   
      
   LOGON1.WCX   
   LOGON2.WCX   
   LOGON3.WCX   
      
   But that sequence was not guaranteed because if you had a login10.wcx,    
   it will be run in a different order:   
      
   LOGON1.WCX   
   LOGON10.WCX   
   LOGON2.WCX   
   LOGON3.WCX   
      
   etc. So that is why we went with the LOGON-HOOKS.TXT file. You can    
   define the order, the apps doesn't have to be named LOGON#.WCX and it    
   can also run from the different subfolder, like "wc:\myapp\app.wcx"   
      
   Hope this helps clarify the two different ideas.   
      
   --    
   Hector, Engineering & Technical Support   
   Santronics Software, Inc.   
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