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 Message 105 
 mark lewis to Dran Draggore 
 Limitations of shell-to-mailer mode 
 08 Apr 16 15:53:16 
 
08 Apr 16 02:18, you wrote to All:

 DD> Are there any limitations to the shell-to-mailer mode ?

yes... mainly that you cannot do things between the mailer and the bbs when a
caller connects...

 DD> I am using RemoteAccess with FrontDoor:

 DD> runra.bat:
 DD> ============================================
 DD> R:\RA\RA.EXE -MR:\FD\FD.EXE*M -E10 -N%1 -c%1
 DD> ============================================

 DD> But it looks like RA will always exit with Errorlevel 10 (ie. "-E10").

yes... that's RA's exit level...

 DD> FrontDoor has the following errorlevels:

 DD>           24.1 Errorlevels

 DD>               1       Internal error
 DD>               2       External error - missing files, paths, etc.
 DD>               3       Insufficient available disk space (less than 32 KB)
 DD>               4       (reserved)
 DD>               5       Unable to initialize modem
 DD>               6       Incorrect FOSSIL version
 DD>               7       FOSSIL not loaded or detected
 DD>               8       FrontDoor already loaded, issue EXIT to return
 DD>               9       (reserved)
 DD>               10      User break
 DD>               11-30   (reserved)
 DD>               31-255  User definable errorlevels

 DD> How do I get RA to detect those ?

the only ones you might need to worry about are the 31-255 user definable
errorlevels... the ones that you might have FD exit on for different connect
speeds are duplicated in RACONFIG->Options->errorlevels...

 DD> -- or is the only way is to use "EXEBBS.bat" (ie. not use
 DD> shell-to-mailer mode) ?

you don't even have to use exebbs.bat... i don't and never have...

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