Subj : Another filearea question
To   : Shawn Highfield
From : Mvan Le
Date : Tue Jun 05 2007 05:07 am

 SH> Hello Mvan,

 SH> On 02/Jun/07 at 00:13 you wrote:

 ML> I reached the website, but couldn't download the file. Internet 
 ML> Explorer timedout for some reason.

 SH>   Hrmmm. 

 ML> Maybe I should try reproducing your error by importing via MFM but 
 ML> I'm too lazy.

 SH>   Laugh know that feeling well.  Are you able to import 
 SH> file_id.diz from MFM?  I can't find the button to do 
 SH> that one. :)

Did MFM ever import file_id.diz's ? ... I forgot ...

 ML> Btw do you have Arrowbridge I working ?

 SH>   No, I have Arrowbridge II working though... Might be 
 SH> the same trick, I had to use a dorinfox.def instead of 
 SH> door.sys or else nothing is displayed to the remote user.

I had the same problem with door.sys with AB-I. Probably because either Maximus 
generates an incompatible and/or non-standard compliant door.sys or the AB 
source code for retrieving node number from a standard door.sys dropfile is 
wrong.

 SH>   Just need to change your dorinfo.mec file to create 
 SH> the dorinfox.def's as well since AB2 refuses to accept 
 SH> dorinfo1.def from node2. 

Probably because it's looking for dorinfo2.def for node 2 etc. Atleast that's 
how AB-I works ie. dorinfo<node>.def. I'm assuming AB-II works similarly.

Example ab1v140.bat:
=======================================================================
@echo off

rem ; 
rem ; switch to game directory
rem ;

%bbsdrive%:
cd %gamesroot%\ab1v140

rem ; 
rem ; copy dropfile
rem ;

rem ; door.sys doesn't work ... using dorinfo1.def instead
rem copy %max%\door.sys .
copy %max%\dorinfo1.def .\dorinfo%1.def

rem ;
rem ; run command
rem ;

ABRIDGE.EXE /node%1 /p%gamesroot%\ab1v140
=======================================================================

Example menus.Ctl:
=======================================================================
xtern_dos       m:\games\ab1v140\ab1v140.bat_%k normal  "Arrowbridge I"
=======================================================================

Apparently people adopted the numeral in dorinfo#.def to be a node designator 
when it was never meant to be. It's probably a "dorinfo" dropfile specification 
version number.

I can't get my AB-I character past Level 8 and am spewing.

--- Maximus/2 3.01
 * Origin: Top Hat 2 BBS (1:343/41)

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