Subj : Another filearea question
To   : Shawn Highfield
From : Mvan Le
Date : Fri Jun 08 2007 07:34 am

 SH> file_id.diz from MFM?  I can't find the button to do 
 SH> that one. :)
 ML> Did MFM ever import file_id.diz's ? ... I forgot ...

 SH>   Okay then I'm not out to lunch. :)  I just mis-read 
 SH> what you said.  I've almost got an updated MFM with 
 SH> file_id.diz importing working, just being held up by 
 SH> time removing the fossil / door code to MFM which is 
 SH> causing a giant headache in the OS/2, Win32 port.

Man I just use the Hurl menu option.

 SH>   Besides does anyone run it as a door anymore?

Not me. I'll set it up one day for kicks, just to remember what it does. I 
never really used it.

 ML> compliant door.sys or the AB source code for retrieving node number 
 ML> from a standard door.sys dropfile is wrong.

 SH>   I'm going to blame the Ab source code because I have 
 SH> around 30 other doors using door.sys without a problem. 
 SH> :)

That's what I thought too :)

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

 SH>   Exactly.

 ML> copy %max%\dorinfo1.def .\dorinfo%1.def

 SH>   I never thought of doing it that way, I changed the 
 SH> dorinfo.mec file with a bunch of [if task] lines. :)  

Me too, but for a different reason:

==========================================================================
[iftask]1 [goto run_game]
....
....
....
[iftask]9 [goto run_game]

[lightred]Arrowbridge will only run on nodes 1 - 9 ! [dim](You are on node 
[node_num])
[exit]

[/run_game]
[link]misc\LEAVING
[xtern_dos]m:\games\ab1v140\ab1v140.bat %k
==========================================================================

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

 SH>   I wonder if that's what happened?  Makes sense.

I dunno. I just adapt to whatever works. I stopped questioning it a long time 
ago :)


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