Maurice Kinal wrote to Alan Ianson:

MK> That shouldn't be too hard to do.  Why the need for door.sys?  

Just to get the user name so it can keep score.

MK> The only 
MK> things that need that are broken and/or abandonware dos door stuff.  I 
MK> thought you were running a linux BBS?!?!?!?!?!  What gives?
MK> 
MK> Heh, heh.  I know, I am a bad, bad boy.

Yep, it only needs the user name, could probably pass that on the command
line just as easily.

MK> Anyhow the ansi output could be achieved methinks.  Same with the score 
MK> file.  I doubt anyone really needs a door.sys file.  That just complicates 
MK> things when there are far better ways of achieving a better result using 
MK> native linux apps yeilding the exactly needed information as opposed to a 
MK> faked out silly control type file.  DOS-think.  Tsk, tsk.  Shame on you!!!

Waht can I say? Old habits die hard.. ;)
 
MK>  AI> Someone would have to keep
MK>  AI> score, take in score files from connected boards and send out updated
MK>  AI> scores.
MK> 
MK> Sounds to me like you're talking yourself into a job.

I've done it before, and given the chance I'd do it again..

MK>  AI> Taking it one step further it could communicate via the chat server
MK>  AI> (or something like that) and players on different boards could play
MK>  AI> in real time. How are your coding skills? :)
MK> 
MK> Not bad.  To be honest I think this might be good practice and testing for 
MK> the new 64-bit Arena I need to do yet.  I could use that to initially 
MK> write the code and test it, then once we're all happy with it, turn it 
MK> over to gcc and let it chew on it for awhile.

This part sounds intersting, a little more complicated I think but may
yield good results.

MK> Yeah.  The only help he gave me was suckering me back into the nodelist 
MK> and letting me play with BC sysop's message base.  I doubt too many would 
MK> be thankful about that eh?  

A couple of the nodes were looking for you and wondering what was up. I
never said anything since I had no idea.

MK> Having said that, he was definetly one of the 
MK> good guys.  No doubt about that here.

Yep, his node served mine well for many years without any trouble.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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