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echo: meadow
to: TREV ROYDHOUSE
from: JOHN GIANNINI
date: 1997-04-26 03:21:00
subject: Drop file nightmares

One question.  Can you put code into OPUS to allow it to create a specific 
OPUS drop file for the Outside section?  For example, I'd like to see a line 
in OPUS.CTL that tells OPUS to create an Opus 1.03 style drop file when 
someone jumps out to the Outside section.
I have a whole bunch of games my users just LOVE which came from Daniel 
Tobias (who used to put out the Big Blue Disk).  The games are like a secret 
word game, a numbers game, a poker game, etc.  All these games generated and 
used "points" which were all maintained by a master program he wrote called 
SCOREKPR.  One can go into any one of these games, play the game, win or lose 
points, and when one exits the Outside, the points are updated in a master 
file.  My callers LOVE these games, and I have been after Mr. Tobias to 
upgrade all of these so they could be used with a more modern drop file. 
Daniel has never responded, except a year ago when he expressed major 
surprise here in Meadow that people were still using his stuff.  He pledged 
the get me new archives of the programs (so I could at least have DOC files 
on the games) and nothing ever showed up.
So:  Since the games require a 1.03 style drop file, can OPUS be made to 
generate that on it's own?  Right now, I down-convert from a 1.73a drop file 
to a 1.14, then down again to a 1.03.  Even on a P90, these programs do a lot 
of disk I/O and it's slow.
Anyhow, just a suggestion....
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