On 2017 Jun 04 07:25:46, you wrote to me:

 >>  IJ> I even try it without the %1 and use temp1 incase the node number
 >> is no

 >>  IJ> being passed...



 >> /N%3 is mystic passing the node number to the %1 in the batch file... %1
 >> sho

 >> contain "/N?" where the "?" is whatever node
number mystic sets via the
 >> %3..



 IJ> the /N%3 and the /H%0 are part of the fossil driver commandline.  Later on
 IJ> in

i know... you're missing what i'm saying... in mystic, %3 and %0 do not
mean the same as they do in a BAT file... they are the current node number
and the current socket handle... in a BAT file they would be the 3rd
parameter and the name of the BAT file... as i was saying above, /N%3 in
mystic becomes the %1 parameter in the BAT file... i've seen numerous folks
get confused about that...

 >> what winwhatever is this? 32bit or 64bit?



 IJ> I'm running XP 32bit,

ahhh... ok...

 IJ>  getting doors to work is not my problem, can do hands

 IJ> down with WINS or Synchronet.... I can add doors to either BBS in moments.


i've done the same on linux once i got dosemu working properly... that was
""fun""...


 IJ> I finally got Stackem to run last night.  I'm not sure what I did... I
 IJ> moved

 IJ> the doors directory off the root and made it a sub directory of Mystic.
 IJ> Things

 IJ> may be case sensative in the commandlines for mystic.... or the fact that I

 IJ> spun around 3 times and clapped once before sitting down might have been
 IJ> the

 IJ> reason, I'm hoping it was the spinning and clapping thing that made the
 IJ> door w

 IJ> ork.


hahahaha... maybe you shold spin the other way to fix this double spaced
lines problem your editor or mystic are outputting? all of your posts are
whacked like the above... i'm not manually fixing them in this reply like i
have the others...


 IJ> I have put 20 hours in and made one door work, by this rate I'll be ready
 IJ> for

 IJ> the election in 2020 to have my BBS fully operational.



 IJ> I have been trying to get Rusty Johnson's doors working, this was my
 IJ> original

 IJ> call out in this echo... I finally got an error out of my efforts on that
 IJ> last

 IJ> night.... something about not being able to access com 1 ... I'm wondering
 IJ> if

 IJ> Rusty's doors have fossil or Mystic suport built into it.


are they written in BASIC? there was a thing about BASIC insisting on
tapping COM1 some years back... i found some docs for golfsolitare and it
seems to support only com ports 1 thru 4 and nothing is said about FOSSIL
support at all... that doc is from 1990 and says that quickbbs supporting
multinode is in the future...

[time passes]

yup, at least golfsolitare (v1.4) is written in BASIC... i was able to
download that one and snoop the exe file... searching for "copy"
amongst the binary turns up a QBSERIAL 1.2b copyright notice... i was
actually expecting to find an embedded copyright for the compiler used and
its runtime library... that'll generally tell you which language and
version of compiler used but seeing QBSERIAL gave me all the info i needed
;)

i also pulled solitree down and looked at it... it is two years newer than
the above golfsolitare... its docs do not mention FOSSIL at all even though
it does say it supports RemoteAccess... it does say com ports 1 thru 4 and
now it has non-standard IRQ use capability... this is probably because of
an advance in QBSERIAL which i'll find out in a second or two...

[time passes]

yup! this one uses QBSERIAL 2.10... i've pulled numerous doors of
rusty's... all of those i have are written in some sort of BASIC... none of
them mention FOSSIL in the docs... some of them don't use QBSERIAL but they
are older than the ones that do use it...

at this point, i highly doubt that you'll get any of rusty johnson's doors
running with netfoss... maybe with netserial which /might/ be able to
emulate COM1 through COM4... any other port won't be recognised... it is
possible to maybe use a non-standard port address and IRQ but that's only
for what the door will see as COM3 or COM4...


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