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to: DAVID CHORD
from: JACK SMITH
date: 1998-01-06 07:31:00
subject: msg editor

On Jan 04, 1998, David Chord wrote:
 DC> How have you set it up for your users? This is something
 DC> I've had on my 'ToDo' list for a long time!
 JS> David, it can be done using Doorway (I've tried it).
 DC> So have I, for myself. The problems I face are :
 DC> Getting the areas, and only the areas that the users are
 DC> allowed/have tagged (use a mex to spit their tagged areas
 DC> out to a TIMED.CFG file it writes or alters on the fly, and
 DC> make sure it can't see the SQUISH.CFG file?)
Sounds like fun.  Hmm... mine only sees Timed.Cfg (by design).  That part's 
easy. 
 DC> Preventing shelling (Should be simple by re-defining the
 DC> keys in TimEd and telling DoorWay not to allow a shell)
Yep.
 DC> Preventing users from reading messages other than ones
 DC> addressed to them in PVT areas (copy all their mail to a
 DC> temp area? TimEd doesn't seem to have the ability to show
 DC> mail onlt intended for the addressee.
Add one more: Somehow, you need to get each user's last read pointer number 
into Timed.Cfg before TimEd is run.
 DC> Get those solved and it'll be easy to implement :-)
No doubt about it. >;-)
Cheers,
 -Jack
  ogre@nashville.com
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