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rob@sound.demon.co.uk (Robert J Barth) writes:

> I would like some sort of way for users to choose between the 2 - is this
> possible - is there some sort of menu I can run between FD & RA|RoboBBS ?
> At the moment I run it as a door from RA main menu, but it drops carrier when
> ends... can I disable this ?

To disable the carrier drop you need to do a couple of things.  It's
listed under  "T R O U B L E S H O O T I N G   U N D E R   D O S"
header.

There is something called "BBS Carousel"  that you could run after FD
detects a human caller.  That program would prompt the user what program
(what BBS) they would like to enter.


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|> rob@sound.demon.co.uk (Robert J Barth) writes:
|> 
|> > I would like some sort of way for users to choose between the 2 - is this
|> > possible - is there some sort of menu I can run between FD & RA|RoboBBS ?
|> > At the moment I run it as a door from RA main menu, but it drops carrier when
|> > ends... can I disable this ?


I know this can be done with BinkleyTerm as a front-end mailer, and I assume
it can be done with FrontDoor. Most mailers have a capability of recognizing
more than just the FTSC poll or the escape key when a caller connects.. for
example, when I had both WAFFLE and Wildcat running under Binkley, coded a 
couple of statements in binkley's config like so:

ExtrnMail 140 wc
ExtrnMail 150 wa

And I also created a Binkley.ban file to show a menu of sorts, telling users 
to enter "wc" for Wildcat, and "wa" for waffle. 5 extra lines of code in 
my controlling batch file for each choice, and I was set. I'm pretty sure 
FrontDoor allows for the same type of function, although the process/syntax 
is almost certainly different than Binkley. At any rate, it worked quite 
well as a front-end for me. All I'd suggest is that you increase the default
"wait time" for your mailer (period it will wait without any caller input
before it assumes the caller is human and takes the default BBS path) to a long
enough interval to ensure the caller has time to read and react to your menu.
The default times of 15-20 seconds for mailers are not quite long enough in 
most cases.
Cheers,
Kevin 



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