On Jun 18, 1997, Larry Rink wrote to All:
 LR> I run FrontDoor\Squish\Maximus 3.0 ....
 LR> Is there a way to advise callers that an event is about to
 LR> take place? Can we dump callers at the time of event? Or
 LR> change their time allowed  on to reflect time remaining
 LR> before event?
Larry, all you have to do is pass the time-till-next-nonuser-event to Maximus 
when it loads.  For example, I correctly observe FidoNet ZMH by not allowing 
callers on the BBS during that hour.  Here, ZMH is observed from 0400-0500 
(CDT).  If a caller who normally has 60 minutes/day calls at 0330 he will 
receive only 30 minutes on the BBS for this call.  A DOBBS.BAT created by the 
mailer might be:
EXEBBS 14400 2 30 /Arq 1
In EXEBBS.BAT, we have:
Max -b%1 -p%2 -t%3 -e1 -n1 -s115200
Note that the "-t%3" passes the maximum time (left) to Maximus; if it's only 
30, that's all the caller gets.  If you're not using the DOBBS method to load 
Max, I don't know what to tell you.  I've never done it any other way (and 
won't). :) I run InterMail, not FrontDoor but the operation is similar.
Hope this helps.
 -Jack
  ogre@nashville.com
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