Subj : Thunder cat V3.30 door game
To   : Digital Man
From : The Lizard Master
Date : Thu Oct 17 2024 00:31:58

  Re: Thunder cat V3.30 door game
  By: Digital Man to The Lizard Master on Wed Oct 16 2024 01:40 pm

 > cvtdrsys modifies a door.sys file created by another program (e.g. a BBS
 > program). *nix sysops could do the modifications with some creative awk and
 > sed commands. Not sure how you would "build that into" a system. If the
 > original program knew it needed different values in the door.sys file, it'd
 > just write those values instead of whatever problematic value it was writing
 > before - no need for "conversion" (or what I would call "modification")
 > in-flight. I suppose a BBS program could allow every line/value of every
 > supported drop file type to be configurable in some way, but that seems like
 > pretty unnecessary complexity and flexibility.

Yeah, I was thinking back more in the day where there were some strange drop files and I had some issues. Not sure why I didn't even think to write something like that, usually I'd just give up on whatever door was giving me issues.

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