TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: maxdev
to: All
from: Victor Kemp
date: 1998-11-02 19:29:04
subject: IPC files

Hi, does anyone know how Maximus's IPC files work? I want to change the
text indicating what each user is doing (transferring a file, available for
chat, external program, etc) so that if they're in a door, everyone else
knows which door. Is it safe to simply change the text starting at byte 38
in the IPC??.BBS, and put a null terminator on it, or can this move around?

Also, is this text ever used by Maximus for anything other than simply
displaying to the callers? ie if I change it, will Maximus get confused?

vkemp{at}sans.vuw.ac.nz
http://www.sans.vuw.ac.nz/~vkemp      (NZ only)

... I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want it by not dyin


--- Maximus 3.01
* Origin: Orbital City (3:771/340)
SEEN-BY: 396/1 632/0 371 633/210 260 267 270 284 371 635/506 725 728 639/252
SEEN-BY: 670/218
@PATH: 771/340 4020 772/20 711/410 712/311 640/201 270/101 396/1 633/260
@PATH: 635/506 728 633/267

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.