Hi Alan,

Alan Ianson wrote to Michiel Broek:
AI> Michiel Broek wrote to Alan Ianson:
AI> 
AI> MB> Like I said, it's a trial and error thing. To speed things up, as root 

AI> you
AI> MB> can edit the contents of the dos disk, so you won't need to logout 
AI> MB> everytime you change someting in autoexec.bat or config.sys. Just make
AI> MB> sure your editor works with crlf.
AI> 
AI> Yep, I have got it loading from the BBS in local mode. But It doesn't
AI> get the user name from the drop file in that case, it always says "Alan
AI> Ianson" is online. I'll keep experimenting and see what I can do.

That Alan Ianson comes from the door configuration I guess.

AI> MB> I whish a lot of doorwriters just released their code so they could be
AI> MB> ported. I get the feeling that some of them still think they can earn 
AI> some
AI> MB> money selling registrations.
AI> 
AI> That'd be the best solution. A lot of these doors I am trying to get
AI> running are almost 10 years old, I think some of them are even written
AI> in QB.. :) Not going to run the office with this stuff but they do what
AI> they do very well (in the dos world).

QB should maybe not a real problem, I understand there are basic compilers
available for Linux.

AI> I've been keeping an eye out for linux door development but haven't
AI> seen much. I've seen a few pre built binaries that don't run here
AI> for reasons unknown. I'll keep looking.. :)

One of the reasons I wrote the door library for my doors was to make a
simple api that does all you need. People just can use that and link the
door against it while they can leave out a lot of code that was needed under
dos.

All sysop keys and screens can be left out too, that has absolutly no use on
a Linux box. There are really a lot of possibilities today for doors
including networked doors. I guess that part of the doors is really lost to
the internet networked gaming.



    Greetings, Michiel Broek

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