Re: Re: Telegard Multi-Node List Info [1/3]
  By: Darryl Dunnaway to Alan Ianson on Mon Aug 04 2003 04:06 pm

 > Forgot about Argus!  :-)  It does a really good job of being a telnet server
 > I've tested it pretty throughly.  Man where the heck did my brain go.
 > 
As a kludgy but effective partial solution to the outbound tcp problem, I
switched to Radius (an Argus clone) from Gamesrv.  One of the things I want to
accomplish with outbound connections is to be able to have a multi-node chat
and a chat server that are one and the same.  Since I can't connect to a
running server from the BBS for multinode chat, I set up a normal MNC door and
switched Gamesrv over to being a front end for it for external connections.
There's also a pre-login option to go straight to MNC, or even straight to
1-to-1 sysop chat instead of logging in to the BBS.  I accomplished this by
chaning the Radius "sending mail go away" banner to look like a
menu, and the
menu commands typed in trigger externals set up for chat, MNchat, the BBS, or a
dummy command that works as an "exit".

Now, just how much data can I send in a banner before an actual mailer trying
to connect will get upset at me?  Another kludge I used was to use * to mark
the spot I needed escape codes in, then hex-edit the data file so that the
banner is in ansi color, I hope testing doesn't prove that a connecting mailer
will be unhappy about that.


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