I may have found a nother bug in sbbs chat function. If you press control -U then select the users node number it will not force the chat to start. If you do not use control-U and just select he users node number it works fine.

┌───────────┐
│ Chat Menu │
└───────────┘
█████████████ Join a Chat █████████████
█ J Join/initiate multinode chat █
█ P Join/start private node/node chat █
█ C Chat with the sysop █
█ T Talk with The Guru (AI) █
█ F Finger (Query) remote user/system █
█ R Internet Relay Chat █
█ I Inter-BBS Instant Messaging █
███████████████ Toggles ███████████████
█ D Allow paging off/on █
█ A Activity alerts off/on █
█ S Split screen private chat █
███████████████████████████████████████
█ Q Quit chat menu █
Anytime: ^Users online ^Private msg

Chat: P

Node, User name, #Number, 'Handle, or ^User list: 2

Node Status
──── ──────────────────────────────────
1 plt in chat section via ssh (P) 2 errors
2 Hp at main menu via telnet 1 error

Node, User name, #Number, 'Handle, or ^User list: 2

Waiting for Node 2 to join private chat. Hit Ctrl-C to abort.

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To: plt
Re: Chat Bug in sbbs
By: plt to All on Fri Jun 18 2021 04:27 am

pl> I may have found a nother bug in sbbs chat function. If you press control
pl> -U then select the users node number it will not force the chat to start.
pl> If you do not use control-U and just select he users node number it works
pl> fine.

I can't figure out what you're talking about. CTRL-U -> C -> user gives me the same result as going to the [C]hat -> P -> user.

Also, only a chat initiating from a sysop account will force the other user into chat.

-altere

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