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From: COSC60I@elroy.uh.edu (Bandolar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: I need a BBS to buy an Amiga!
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Date: 9 Aug 89 04:11:51 GMT
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> 
> One question, you said you had games, etc on your system? Care to share just
> how you did it? I would love to have stuff like that on our board!
>  
* I said I would *like* to have a BBS that you could run games/sub programs
* from.  All I *have* done is used the DOS gate to run sub programs that
* direct the text output into a text file that can then be typed with another
* menu option.  You could use this approach to run a game.
* For Example:  the menu
COMPUTER CHESS MENU
M >ake your move
S >how the board
You would type...
M chess >board kp4 kp5
the cursor would come back...
then 
S
it would show the board.
I almost did this *BUT* there is a problem.  You could also type...
M c:delete #?
and delete all files on the disk.  or
M c:dir opt a
etc.  Making too dangerous for general use.  I would be highly interested
if anyone could suggest a way to prevent this.  I considered assigning
c: to an empty directory while the game was available and putting the bbs
alone with the chess program.
-- 
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