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echo: muffin
to: Peter Knapper
from: Mvan Le
date: 2006-09-09 15:03:14
subject: BinkleyTerm Who is On

PK> Hi Jean-Claude,

 ML> How do I get BinkleyTerm tasks to state their presence and status
 ML> in the  Maximus 'Who_is_On' menu command ? 

 PK> You need to find a utility to tweak the BBSTAT##.BBS file.

 PK> One way I can think of is that as the .BBS file 
 PK> _appears_ to be in a similar format to a Mecca file, 
 PK> one may be able to use Mecca to generate them.

Yeah but mecca doesn't have any tokens to report user location eg.
reading/writing messages, downloading files, playing games.

I need something more dynamic, hence more cool.

Maybe there's a Mex replacement for the Who's Online function. 

Otherwise I'd have to write one -- one day. Heh.

I could swear I remember seeing something like

  Username             Node  Status
  -------------------- ----  ----------------------
  Binkleyterm            16  Waiting for caller

on somebody's BBS. It may have been one of those OS/2-only pipe features.

I want to update the status to

  Status
  -----------------------------
  Sending mail to 3:712/104

if a *.bsy flag is detected in the BinkleyTerm outbound area or something.
That would be cool.

--- Maximus/2 3.01
* Origin: Top Hat 2 BBS (1:343/41)
SEEN-BY: 3/0 633/267 640/954 712/0 313 550 620 848
@PATH: 343/41 138/146 392 123/500 261/38 712/848 633/267

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