From: nospam.cyberiabbs@THRWHITE.remove-11ey-this

On 09-09-03, Rick Parrish said...

RP> XPost: alt.bbs.allsysop, alt.bbs.elebbs, alt.bbs.synchronet
RP> XPost: alt.bbs.tribbs, alt.bbs.wildcat
RP> From: nospam@blah.com
RP>
RP> "Mike Anderson"  wrote in message
RP> news:m52cnSA1jZ6729iiXTWJjA@wctc.net...
RP> > Fellow BBS SysOps,
RP> >   It has been brought to my attention that this utility falls
RP> short of
RP> what
RP> > I had intended it to do.  I'm sorry if I got your hopes up.  I
RP> hope to a
RP> > the necessary improvements to make this work very shortly.
RP> Thanks to
RP> > Rhythmnp for helping me detect where testing errors were made.
RP>
RP> Just out of curiosity, how can your program possibly work?  Sure,
RP> it's
RP> possible to convert a DOOR.SYS dropfile to a syntactically correct
RP> DOOR32.SYS file, but since DOOR.SYS deals with com numbers, and
RP> DOOR32.SYS
RP> deals with com handles (or socket handles), the DOOR32 program will
RP> not be
RP> able to detect a carrier.  So I'm just wondering what test
RP> environment you
RP> are using to confirm this util works.

That's an inherent misunderstanding about DOOR32.SYS.  When it first
came
out, I too thought they were talking about a new dropfile format.  What
is
really the case is a whole new way of programming a door.  They
shouldn't
have named the format like that of an existing dropfile format.  It
should
have been something completely different.

It's kinda like g00r00 naming his telnet client Netrunner.  When I
first
heard about that, I thought he was talking about the doorgame called
NetRunner.  Two completely different proggies.

-Regards,
Darryl Perry
Sysop, Cyberia BBS

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