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Hi Everyone,
 
I'm posting this here more for documentation than anything else.
 
I'm a huge proponent of the Demoscene, especially Nectarine Demoscene Radio.
 
I wanted to be able to display the currently playing song & artist on my BBS in
an ASC menu screen.
 
I run my RemoteAccess BBS under 32bit XP, so I accomplished this by using CURL
to query the Nectarine API endpoint that responds with XML containing the
currently playing song, artist, upcoming queue etc...
 
I use several DOS commands in a batch file that pases the resulting CURL
results and extracts the current song/artist, strips away the rest of the text
and then writes the final song/artist variables into two text files.
 
I then use the control code ^K! to insert the desired song/artist file contents
into the ASC menu image file where I wish it to appear.
 
The trick was getting the batch file to run properly as a Type 7 when the menu
loads.
It would run, but NONE of the advanced features of the batch commands would
work.  FOR and FINDSTR were nonexistent, giving nothing but syntax and command
not found errors. 
 
The batch file would execute peoperly when run directly form the command
prompt, but being called from RA as a Type 7.. forget it.
 
Here's how to fix that issue:
 
In RACONFIG, setup a Type 7 execute sub-program, and on the OPTDATA line, call
the batch file using:
 
*C /C cmd.exe /c c:\ra\doors\necta\go.bat
 
FIXED!
 
Apparently I needed to designate cmd.exe otherwise command.com was being
invoked and it didn't contain the internal FOR/FINDSTR commands...
 
Hope that helps someone down the road!
 
Take care
Aaron/DW 

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