Subj : Baja argument help

Subj : Baja argument help
To : Digital Man
From : DesotoFireflite
Date : Mon Feb 14 2022 03:51 pm

Re: Baja argument help
By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Sun Feb 13 2022 02:26 pm

>> I can't understand it, I've worked with Baja before, and I thought I
>> undersood it. I'm figuring with a new user, the last on would be
>> 0(zero), and the Guest would be a restriction of "G", hence
>> "compare_ars LASTON EQUALS 0 OR REST G", so as a regular user with no
>> restrictions, and laston field populated with a date, it should be
>> false, and go to else, the second half, but it's acting like it never
>> sees the second half with regular users, but treats them like a new
>> user or guest. I also tried "compare_ars LASTON=0 OR REST G" and got
>> the same results. My logic must be flawed. It may be the LASTON
>> causing the issue, but I don't know another way of determining a new
>> user with ars or any other method.

DM> LASTON is initialized to the current date/time when a new user account is
DM> created. "LOGONS" is probably the value you want to be checking. It should
DM> be equal to 1 for a user's first logon.

DM> By what you're describing, the second "else" section should *always* be
DM> executing and it's the first ("if_true") section that isn't being
DM> executed. In that case, fixing the ARS should solve that.

"LOGONS" was the key, it's working like I want it to now. I cleaned up the code a bit, so it doesn't look as klunky, see below. Thanks for the help.

!include sbbsdefs.inc
!include file_io.inc
!include dir_attr.inc

SETSTR "LOCAL"
MSG_SET_GROUP
SETSTR "NEWS"
MSG_SET_AREA

compare_ars LOGONS=1 OR REST G
if_true
# If New User or Guest, go to Local Message Base and Read News...
MSG_READ
else
# All other users, go to Local message Base, check for new messages In News, and
# show New Messages and if no New Messages exist, do nothing, and exit.
MSG_NEW_SCAN_SUB
end_if

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