Michael Epler wrote in a message to Anthony Tibbs:
[Using TimEd or simillar as an external editor]
 ME> Let me see if I am following this correctly: instead of having a
 ME> preset cfg for each user, you would use a method to create it each
 ME> time (sort of like how door.sys drop files are done). 
That's basically the idea.
 ME> From previous posts there are apparently cfg options the sysop
 ME> would want to control (pre-can) and that would be consistent with
 ME> your idea. 
Write those as needed, get and use the user data as needed as well 
(name/lastread etc)
 ME> However, are there user options like header/text display
 ME> colours, quoting style, taglines, etc that would/could still be
 ME> very individual? How would they get placed in the on-the-fly
 ME> generation? How would they be stored for retrieval? 
One option would be to have a chat to those who want to use it. If anyone 
really wants to use differnt colours you could have their version based on 
their user number (remember Max can display files by user number (which is 
actually their LRP number) or by name (can it still do both?), so you'd just 
need it to check and use the relevant files for each user (which would be a 
real pain on larger systems). Also, you could have them use a cfg thingy for 
that session, defines a file like 'timed.col' which can be included with the 
editor (means users would have to set up colors each time they logged on tho)
 ME> That's on the editor.....then tagged areas, last read pointers, 
 ME> etc from the bbs end still need to be picked up, don't they?
Basicaly, yup. There's also the problem that these programs are generally 
designed for *one* person who is also the SysOp, so the users would be able 
to see everyones private mail unless you either blocked those areas from 
their view or had some sort of routine to copy their messages to a temp area 
and their replies back..
A good idea, but maybe quite diffucult - one I will have a crack at tho :-)
Cya..
Dave
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