Hi all you PCB sysops !
  

My name is Lone Runner, I'm part of AEGiS CoRP... I'm usually a coder (PPE
and EXE) but today I managed to make a door without any code -<;)~

Well, what's the purpose of that anyway ?

On my board, I have a door game that can be played by users against others.
There are many games like mine... I'm sure that, like me, you have some 
users that play the same game with many different usernames...

To do this, they must logoff and re-logon by dialing your board number again
and again, as many times as they still have other identities to play with...

In some country, this is a big loss of money because a tax is established for
each connection. (ie : France -> 0.73FF by call)

Now when users want to change identity on my board, they just type "RESET" 
and the logon process come back, so they can logon with a new name/pass...

How did I do that ? Well, it is really easy :)

First you must have a mailer or anything that answer the call WITHOUT PCB...
This is needed because we have to know exactly the parameters passed to
BOARD.BAT (maybe one day I will make some code to bypass this limitation...)

þ Edit your BOARD.BAT and put just after you ECHO OFF (before anything is 
  done) :

  SET N1=%1
  SET N2=%2
  SET N3=%3
  SET N4=%4
  SET N5=%5
  SET N6=%6
  SET N7=%7
  SET N8=%8
  SET N9=%9

þ Put just after your :END label (after everything is done) :

  SET N1=
  SET N2=
  SET N3=
  SET N4=
  SET N5=
  SET N6=
  SET N7=
  SET N8=
  SET N9=
 
þ Then move into your pcboard directory and make a door file called RESET. 
  (or whatever you want) that contains :

  @ECHO OFF
  DEL PCBOARD.SYS
  BOARD.BAT %N1% %N2% %N3% %N4% %N5% %N6% %N7% %N8% %N9% 

If you have a multinode system and some node does not have a mailer, you have
to make a RESET file such as :

  @ECHO OFF
  IF "%PCBNODE%" == "2" GOTO DONE
  IF "%PCBNODE%" == "3" GOTO DONE
  IF "%PCBNODE%" == "4" GOTO DONE
  DEL PCBOARD.SYS
  BOARD.BAT %N1% %N2% %N3% %N4% %N5% %N6% %N7% %N8% %N9% 
  :DONE
  BOARD.BAT

þ Run PCBSETUP and add a new door entry that will call your RESET. file... 

That's all :) now a user that type RESET gets the logon process, as if he
were loging in for the first time...


Let's explain... 

In your BOARD.BAT you save all parameters into Nx environment variables...
When the RESET "door" is executed, it will delete PCBOARD.SYS. This file
is used by PCBOARD to save informations on the current user (user name, time
used online etc...). If you delete it, PCBOARD think that a new user is 
loging in... :) So we just have to call again BOARD.BAT with the same
parameters than when it was called for the first time... we do that using
the Nx environment variables :)

That's all for today :) Not real programming but sumthing that can be 
usefull for some of us... 

                                                See ya! _.Lone Runner