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echo: mystic
to: Paul Hayton
from: Todd Yatzook
date: 2019-04-27 16:58:48
subject: Re: Save game per user for Infocom type games as doors

On 24 Apr 2019, Paul Hayton said the following...
 
 PH> On 23 Apr 2019 at 10:47p, Todd Yatzook pondered and said...
 PH>  
 PH>  TY> You can probably skip the part of my how-to with regards to DOSBox, a
 PH>  TY> just check out the example batch file for an idea on how to have it
 PH>  TY> create a separate directory for each user. Probably ignore the flags 
 PH>  TY> well; just focus on what I did for directory creation at the top of t
 PH>  TY> batch, and how it calls it for each game. Or something. =)
 PH>  TY> 
 PH>  TY> http://throwbackbbs.com/dosbox_howto.html
 PH> 
 PH> Hi Todd.
 PH> 
 PH> A comment and a question..
 PH> 
 PH> The guide refers to DG command which has been depreciated I think and now
 PH> there is just DD and D3
 PH> 
 PH> I'm picking swap out DG for DD which creates all three drops files 
 PH> 
 PH> 24/04/2019  03:08 p.m.               187 CHAIN.TXT
 PH> 24/04/2019  03:08 p.m.               292 DOOR.SYS
 PH> 24/04/2019  03:08 p.m.                94 DORINFO1.DEF
 PH> 
 PH> in the temp dir of the node logged in.
 PH> 
 PH> My question is (and I have a feeling I may have asked before?) can I add
 PH> this info the fsxnet wiki also with attribution to yourself?

Go for it! As long as you can get it to work, obviously. =) I'm not sure of
the method you guys are using if you're skipping DOSBox, but yeah, no worries
man.

And thanks for the tip about DG instead of DD; I'll update the how-to right
now.

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