Subj : RE: RIP
To   : All
From : MICHAEL PURDY
Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:12:12

Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 21:58:20 -0400
From: MICHAEL PURDY
To: all
Subject: RE: RIP
Newsgroups: win.server.program
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In light of the obsolete status of 16 bit centric BBS RIP I doubt this
thread will attract a great deal of attention.  However, as it may assist
someone in the future I will make a couple of observations.

The capacity to detect RIP exists in Wildcat! v5 to v7, but it is not
implemented by default in MAIN.WCC.

The code to display an alternate set of *.RIP or dispR.BBS files does not
currently exist at all in the relevant ANSI Side modules.

You can implement the ability to detect RIP and its associated Version

  Connected with Telnet.  Ansi detected. - Detected RIP Version: 030001

As you will see above I am successfully detecting RIP Version 3.  I do not
have a working RIP v1 or v2 emulator so I cannot test backwards
compatibility.  However, my testing was based on the RIPv1 Specification so
it should work with v1 to v3.

Once you have detected RIP you can set a global session variable for the
user and then display an alternate set of RIP files.  I tested the concept
of HELLOR1-HELLOR9.BBS and it worked fine.

 
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