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to: JANIS KRACHT
from: NIELS HAEDECKE
date: 2014-11-21 23:16:00
subject: Running door games - how?

> Hi Niels,

Hi Janis,

>>I'm planing to run a few doorgames on my Linux based BBBS system. How can thi
>> be accomplished? Other BBS systems can run old DOS doors through DOSemu and
>> FOSSIL, is this also possible with BBBS?

>I have a file at filegate.net that Sean Rima (hi Sean!) wrote quite a while ag
> for the linux version of BBBS, DOSEMU and Doors:

> http://www.filegate.net/info/bbbs-doors-howto

> Date        Description
>131101 6k 1 Sean Rima's How-to for setting up DOS doors with BBBS/L and DOSEMU

> I haven't done this, but the file makes sense to me.

I haven't yet read it, but a first glance looked promising. Thanks for the
link.

>>Also, when I try to run native UN*X programs like nethack from the opendoor.b
>>script, I get the error message "nethack must be run from a terminal" - anyon
>> got an idea how to do this right?

> Maybe if show us your line in opendoor.bz for this game, we can see what
> problems there are?

Here it is, I've put it in place of the "spawn("mastermind")" command in the
opendoor.bz script:

system("/usr/bin/nethack",0,0);

Looks simple enough. OS is Cent OS 6.5 x86_64.

Kind regards,
Niels

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