TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: telix
to: BRUCE WILSON
from: ISAAC GROVER
date: 1997-06-06 17:44:00
subject: Tracks

Bruce Wilson may have typed (or replied to) the following:
 BW> I've got a text-only account with my ISP, which has now changed its
 BW> setup; and there appears to be an inconsistency in its log-on prompt
 BW> for the user name, in that it's sometimes "username" and sometimes
 BW> "userid."  I've never been a student of "tracking" in Telix scripts
 BW> and have, thus far, been able to get away with simple "waitfor" and
 BW> "cputs" scripts, but it seems there's no alternative to watching for
 BW> the two prompts simultaneously and responding to whichever apppears.
While the track system may be better, my quick fix would be to
change the waitfor ("username"); line to waitfor ("user");.  Then
you can respond to both prompts with no problem.
---
Isaac Grover (1:214/80) 
In the year 2000, the average computer will have 0.6 humans.
--- QScan/PCB v1.19b / 01-0154
---------------
* Origin: MicroLink BBS * Dinuba, CA 209-591-8753 (1:214/80)

SOURCE: echomail via exec-pc

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.