Subj : Totally Confused...
To   : Martin Kazmaier
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Dec 19 2025 06:46 pm

  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?

 >  >  > 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.

 >  >  > 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.
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                                            digital man (rob)

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