Subj : Re: Good place for mods?
To   : The Godfather
From : Xenos #1@60.Wwivnet
Date : Thu Nov 05 2020 07:16 am


On Thursday, November 05, 2020 at 19:14, The Godfather (11:1/227)@8304.Wwivnet-
Ftn wrote:

TG>To.......... Alpha #4@127.Wwivnet
TG>
TG> A#> That works, doing some testing this week and I'll send it over! 
TG>
TG>Awesome, thank you!  
TG>
TG>The only thing I haven't figured out yet is how to launch a batch file ever
TG>time a user logs in, to update ANSI's for time/date sensitive mods such as 
TG>the corona virus tracker.  Apam showed me how to use curl to pull the Amiga
TG>version of the mods ANSI, which I display in the bulletin section (Bulletin
TG>0).  However, at the moment I'm running the curl command as a mystic hourly
TG>event, and having the batch file of that event, copy it over.  It would be 
TG>nice to have it run the batch file at login.  

If you want more than one batch file to be run, you can MOD
wwivbbs/bbs/lilo.cpp at around line 835-851 to add your execute hook, and in
xinit.cpp to add your WWIV.INI configurable entry.

I should really get a Debian buster box online just for making mods.

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