Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!uhnix1!elroy!cosc60i From: COSC60I@elroy.uh.edu (Bandolar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: I need a BBS to buy an Amiga! Message-ID: <1775@elroy.uh.edu> Date: 9 Aug 89 04:11:51 GMT References: <20189@louie.udel.EDU> <20717@cup.portal.com> <1587@elroy.uh.edu> <21007@cup.portal.com> Distribution: na Organization: University of Houston Lines: 30 > > 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. -- Stephen McLeod, native Texican | Interests: SF/Gaming, French, the SCA, Vote Spock, the logical choice | Computers, and friendly people This Space for Rent | So... whadayou wanna be when you grow up?