Re: Validate a Sysop

> (Phipps)
> Does anyone know the error codes or if it even gives them for telnet.exe?
> you could run a shell that called telnet.exe with the url given to see
> if a telnet server exists at the url.

I just tried telnet.exe with the command line and checked for ERRORLEVEL and
when I try with a bogus address (i.e. telnet.exe 1.2.3.4), ERRORLEVEL returns
with a 0.  So it doesn't return an error code if it doesn't connect.  Someone
would have to write a program similar to mt32.exe, one that will just take the
host address[:port] as the parameter, and will try to connect, if connected,
return ERRORLEVEL=0, if fail after 20 seconds, return ERRORLEVEL=1, and then
the batch file can do what it needs to return the information to the BBS.  Of
course, then users can still say they are a sysop, and give the address of
another board that is available, and it will validate it with that, which we
wouldn't want, which is probably why no one has went that path.

> (Bigjoe)
> Thats an idea, it's just no one has that information. I just some way to
> validate a bbs. or the sysop.
>
> Theres got to be some way of doing that

After your questionaire, if you want to give them access, you can add lines as
such, for example, if you want to give visiting sysops that answered the
questions a Security Level of 30 and 120 minutes a day, you would put in your
script:

let !54 = 30
let !55 = 120
returnfb "main"
door "rem"

The last 2 lines will return them to the "MAIN" menu afterward after using the
door command to shrink out.  "REM" is an internal DOS command that simply means
"remark", used for documenting comments in batch files (or disabling some
unwanted commands in a batch file).  But doing this will immediately update
their online time remaining.  If you don't do this, if they only had 30 minutes
to begin with, they will still only have 30 minutes minus what they used
already, until they either relog or they run a door that shrinks them out of
the BBS.

ComputerWhiz


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