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echo: jdssoft
to: Sean Dennis
from: John Dailey
date: 2004-03-23 10:45:00
subject: Porting

* In a message originally to John Dailey, Sean Dennis said:

 SD> Don't drop FOSSIL support-you'll alienate about 90% of your userbase and

No doubt about that!

 SD> I'm sure you don't want to do that.  I am experienced in writing BBS
 SD> doors in Pascal m'self.  Currently, I'm using eDoor (DOS/16) for all of
 SD> my doors because I have had one hell of a time getting /ANY/ doorkit
 SD> using the EleCOM source to work right all the time.

It's so good to hear I'm not the only one :)  And thank you for the
recommendation to check out eDoor (which I will definitely do).

At this point, I've decided NOT to integrate another doorkit other than the
one I have (my own), but I may learn something from it.

 SD> I'm using Borland Pascal to do the majority of the work in.  I have a
 SD> patched TP7 here, but I prefer BP because it runs faster on my system.

I also use BP for DOS/16 and Delphi for Win32.

 SD> If you have any questions, please feel free to ask and I'll see what I
 SD> can do.

Thanks Sean.


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