Subj : Re: Thunder cat V3.30 BBS door game help
To   : Fzf
From : Rixter
Date : Tue Oct 15 2024 08:35 am


>   Re: Re: Thunder cat V3.30 BBS door game help
>   By: Cozmo to Rixter on Sun Oct 13 2024 11:23 am

> The path without the filename is the correct setting.

> This door kit is picky about the dropfiles it reads.  In the case of Mystic's
> DOOR.SYS file, line 14 (User password) being blank is causing the error #5.
> Anything at all on that line will suffice to get rid of the error.  Then
> you'll start getting runtime error #6.

> Line #46 gets "32768" written to it by default.  This line gets read into a
> 16-bit signed integer with a maximum positive value of 32767.  Anything over
> that results in a runtime error.

> There's a utility called CVTDOOR that can be used to manipulate these two
> lines.  Use the utility to add anything to line 14 and set line 46 to any
> smaller number.  By changing these two lines I was able to get the Mystic
> generated DOOR.SYS file to work.
> --- SBBSecho 3.14-Win32
>  * Origin: The Fool's Quarter, fqbbs.synchro.net (21:1/149)


problem fixed. it was in the door.sys file.  I used a ruler and went down all
52 lines of the door sys file based on door.sys on the synchronet wiki which
shows what each line is for and valid ranges for some of them. In my case it
was line 42 out of range for Tcat v3.30  42 is time credit in minutes. I used
cvtdrsys.exe to go in and change that line to 0 each time the door is run. I
use a batch file for each node. In tcat i made a node directory for each
instance loaded tcat/node1 node2, etc. copied cvtdrsys.exe into each node and
have the original door.sys generated by sbbs copied into that node and modified
by  cvtdrsys. at the end of play the modified door.sys is deleted and the user
is returned to the BBS. It works real good. I had help from CJ and Fzf. I knew
I had to change something in the door.sys file but did not know about
cvtdrsys.exe to do it. Thank you very much!

telnet://ricksbbs.synchro.net:23
http://ricksbbs.synchro.net:8080
Madison,NC
--- SBBSecho 3.14-Win32
 * Origin: Ricks BBS - ricksbbs.synchro.net (21:1/242)

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