Quick hack for Alterego to support custom/extended node status text.

exec/load/presence_lib.js

@@ -119,8 +119,21 @@ function user_age_and_gender(user, options)
 	return output;
 }
 
+function extended_status(num)
+{
+	var f = new File(system.ctrl_dir + "node.exb");
+	if(!f.open("rb"))
+		return "!error " + f.error + " opening " + f.name;
+	f.position = num * 128;
+	var str = f.read(128);
+	f.close();
+	return str;
+}
+
 // Returns a string describing the node status, suitable for printing on a single line
 //
+// num is zero-based
+//
 // options values supported/used:
 // .include_age
 // .include_gender
@@ -131,9 +144,10 @@ function user_age_and_gender(user, options)
 // .gender_separator
 // .connection_prefix
 // .errors_prefix
-function node_status(node, is_sysop, options)
+function node_status(node, is_sysop, options, num)
 {
 	var node_status = node.status;
+	var misc = node.misc;
 	var output = '';
 
 	switch(node_status) {
@@ -143,11 +157,15 @@ function node_status(node, is_sysop, options)
 			/* Fall-through */
 		case NODE_INUSE:
 		{
+			if(misc&NODE_EXT) {
+				output += extended_status(num);
+				break;
+			}
 			var user = new User(node.useron);
 
 			if(options.username_prefix)
 				output += options.username_prefix;
-			if(js.global.bbs && (node.misc&NODE_ANON) && !is_sysop)
+			if(js.global.bbs && (misc&NODE_ANON) && !is_sysop)
 				output += bbs.text(UNKNOWN_USER);
 			else
 				output += user.alias;
@@ -187,7 +205,7 @@ function node_status(node, is_sysop, options)
 
 			if(options.username_prefix)
 				output += options.username_prefix;
-			if(js.global.bbs && (node.misc&NODE_ANON) && !is_sysop)
+			if(js.global.bbs && (misc&NODE_ANON) && !is_sysop)
 				output += bbs.text(UNKNOWN_USER);
 			else
 				output += system.username(node.useron);
@@ -308,7 +326,7 @@ function nodelist(print, active, listself, is_sysop, options)
 		} else
 			others++;
 
-		var line = format(options.format, n + 1, node_status(node, is_sysop, options));
+		var line = format(options.format, n + 1, node_status(node, is_sysop, options, n));
 		if(print)
 			writeln(line);
 		else

exec/privatemsg.js

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ while(bbs.online && !(console.aborted)) {
 					write(bbs.text(NodeLstHdr));
 				}
 				writeln(format(nodelist_options.format, n + 1
-					,presence.node_status(node, user.is_sysop, nodelist_options)));
+					,presence.node_status(node, user.is_sysop, nodelist_options, n)));
 				users[n] = node.useron;
 				shown++;
 			}

src/sbbs3/node.c

@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ enum {
 
 char tmp[256];
 int nodefile;
+int nodeexb;
 
 #if defined(_WIN32)	/* Microsoft-supplied cls() routine - ugh! */
 
@@ -239,6 +240,16 @@ static char* node_connection_desc(ushort conn, char* str)
 	return str;
 }
 
+static char* extended_status(int num, char* str)
+{
+	if(nodeexb < 0)
+		return "No extended status file open";
+	lseek(nodeexb, num * 128, SEEK_SET);
+	read(nodeexb, str, 128);
+	str[127] = 0;
+	return str;
+}
+
 /****************************************************************************/
 /* Displays the information for node number 'number' contained in 'node'    */
 /****************************************************************************/
@@ -280,6 +291,10 @@ void printnodedat(int number, node_t node)
 			break;
 		case NODE_QUIET:
 		case NODE_INUSE:
+			if(node.misc&NODE_EXT) {
+				printf("%s", extended_status(number,tmp));
+				break;
+			}
 			printf("User #%d",node.useron);
 			printf(" ");
 			switch(node.action) {
@@ -494,6 +509,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 		printf("\7\nError %d opening %s.\n",errno,str);
 		exit(1); }
 
+	sprintf(str,"%snode.exb",ctrl_dir);
+	nodeexb=sopen(str,O_RDWR|O_BINARY,SH_DENYNO);
+
 	sys_nodes=filelength(nodefile)/sizeof(node_t);
 	if(!sys_nodes) {
 		printf("%s reflects 0 nodes!\n",str);