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echo: mystic
to: mark lewis
from: Nicholas Boel
date: 2017-09-29 17:43:04
subject: Question

Hello mark,

On Fri Sep 29 2017 11:44:58, mark lewis wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 ml> i think the key word here is "automatic"... you have to
specifically
 ml> put "%3" in the data line to pass the node number... that's not
 ml> "automatic"... i suspect the OP was looking for an already existing
 ml> environment variable like %MYSTICNODE% similar to %WCNODE%... in the
 ml> case of %WCNODE%, the BBS creates it in the spawned shell where the
 ml> door script is executed... in this case, "%3" wouldn't need to be
 ml> passed at all since the value should be the same as %MYSTICNODE% if it
 ml> existed...

You have to do the same for Synchronet as well, which he used as an example
("%#" passes the node number to an external program, and there
are others). Since I have never run Wildcat, I only had his description of
Synchronet to go by - in which Mystic does the same thing.

As for %WCNODE%, does that not need to be configured to do so at some
point? Or does it only do it when a setting is switched that the spawned
shell will run a door? What if you don't want the node number passed to the
shell spawned from the BBS, is there a way to disable it? If any of this is
true, then nothing is "automatic".

He asked how to do it, and I tried to help him by showing him how. He makes
up his own answers and doesn't take your help. It's not the first time he's
done it, and I can guarantee it won't be the last - HE'S BEEN A SYSOP SINCE
1991 FFS!

Regards,
Nick

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