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From: TLIMONCE@DREW.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Starting a server
Message-ID: <8802030050.AA16446@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 3 Feb 88 00:43:00 GMT
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I am developing a server-based multi-user BBS program.  Currently,
all the servers must be started up manually.  This is a temporary
solution that I must disband before the product starts shipping.

Is there currently a standard way to do this?  How have other
people done it?  (Don't say, "do it as a library or a device"
because I don't have time to figure out how to build a device
right now... that'll be in version 2.0)  Can someone direct
me to a FishDisk example?

One thought (though this is pretty cheap) is to do:
        loaded = FALSE;
        while ((fooPort = FindPort(FOO)) == NULL) {
                if (!loaded) loaded = Execute("run fooServer");
                Delay(A_COUPLE_SECONDS);
        }
Is that real cheezwiz or what?  If you ask me to start playing with
LoadSeg and UnLoadSeg I may just do it right and build it as a .library.


Tom Limoncelli | Drew U/Box 1060/Madison NJ 07940 | tlimonce@drew.BITNET
    Disclaimer: These are my views, not my employer or Drew Univesity
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