Subj : Totally Confused...
To   : Digital Man
From : Martin Kazmaier
Date : Fri Dec 19 2025 09:13 pm


* In a message originally to Martin Kazmaier, Digital Man said:

> Re: Totally Confused... By: Martin Kazmaier to Digital Man on Fri Dec
> 19 2025 05:37 pm


>  > * In a message originally to Martin Kazmaier, Digital Man said:

>  >  > Re: Totally Confused... By: Martin Kazmaier to All on Fri Dec 19
> 2025
>  >  > 08:00 am

>  >  >  > I simply want to start doors from rlogin connections.  They're
> all
>  >  >  > .js.

>  >  > .js written for Synchronet specifically?

>  >  >  > I can't figure out any of this.

>  >  > Did you read https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:game_server ?


>  > Yes.

>  >  >  > The whole logon sequence appears even though I disabled most of
> it.

>  >  > Where?

>  > In the ctrl file.

> What file is that?
modopts.ini
>  >  >  > The games don't start, I get an error that it's not found due to
> the
>  >  >  > way I've got the path and door game name separate.

>  >  > What's the error message?

>  > I got around that.

> Still, I think we'd like to know what the error message was.
I had jsexec followed by the .js script loading after the path.  Simple user
error.
>  >  >  > Do I need to start them with jsexec?

>  >  > No.

>  >  >  > I've got tons of questions and couldn't find any answers on the
> wiki
>  >  >  > searching for my questions...  I've got
>  >  > 3.20d I
>  >  >  > think.

>  >  >  > Sorry, I'm in over my head...  I really thought this would be
> self
>  >  >  > explanatory and a piece of cake.  I just want to have my users be
> able
>  >  > to
>  >  >  > access .js arcade games locally.  I just need one working example
> for
>  >  >  > startrek, gooble gooble, chicken delivery or Lemons.

>  >  > If you want an rlogin client to go *directly* to a specific door
> game,
>  >  > then the rlogin *client* needs to specify the internal code of that
> door
>  >  > (xtrn) in the Rlogin terminal string, as documented in the above
> wiki
>  >  > page.


>  > Yes, the door is starting after the bulletins and other things appear,
> right
>  > before the menu would.  I'm using xtrn=GOOBLE as an example.

> Then it sounds like you just need to set [logon] rlogin_xtrn_logon = false
> in your modopts. -- digital man (rob)

I added that and it still does the same thing. I gave up and am using an
external server.  This was quite unpleasant.  I followed the instructions
to the letter and it didn't work as stated.

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