Ok, I have the system now set to play a login sound when someone connect, but it pauses the login process while the wav file plays. Is there a way to have it play the file without pausing the login sequence?

using the DD command to execute a batch file that plays the .wav:

connect.bat
c:
cd \program files\videoLAN\VLC
vlc c:\loy\56k_mdm.wav vlc://quit
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Legends of Yesteryear (FIDO 1:123/256) - telnet: furmenservices.net:23322

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Ok, I have the system now set to play a login sound when someone
connect, but it pauses the login process while the wav file plays. Is there a way to have it play the file without pausing the login sequence?

using the DD command to execute a batch file that plays the .wav:

connect.bat
c:
cd \program files\videoLAN\VLC
vlc c:\loy\56k_mdm.wav vlc://quit
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Never mind, figured it out. Needed to add 'start' to the beginning on the last line: start vlc c:\loy\56k_mdm.wav vlc://quit
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why not setup a python script that runs in the backround and is waiting for a signal. Then the BBS can just send it a signal and finish. Then the program that was waiting for the signal plays the sound while the BBS moves on.

Just a thought that way the BBS isn't the one playing the sound just telling another program to do it.

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why not setup a python script that runs in the backround and is waiting for a signal. Then the BBS can just send it a signal and finish. Then the program that was waiting for the signal plays the sound while the
BBS moves on.

Just a thought that way the BBS isn't the one playing the sound just telling another program to do it.

Way to overcomplicate a simple solution. :) And the BBS is NOT playing the sound, VLC is. The BBS just makes a call during initial logon to a batch file the plays the 56k Modem connecting sound. SOOO much easier than messing with some programing language I know nothing about. :)
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