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|    Janis Kracht to Torbjorn Mohn    |
|    Doors that work here..    |
|    30 Oct 13 15:03:44    |
      Hi Torbjorn!              >> Something like that doesn't work for you with the dos version of TimePort?              >I once wrote a complete manual (in norwegian) for setting up DOS doors in BBBS       > for DOS (I did run BBBS under DOS/Desqview until Kim made an NT/windows       > version) including the discription of different types of drop files.....              Ah.. sounds like it was a neat thing to do back then. I'll bet it was       appreciated. :)              >As I said, DOS doors will not work in Windows, there is no way that the OS wil       >let an application (BBBS) pass "DOS box information" to the TCPIP stack. End o       >story. Kim has explained it to me, and there is nothing that can be done about       > it appearently.              Ok.. probably a situation like the "sandbox" in java, I expect.. :(                     >>>Who wants to play Yatzee on a BBS?.... Who really wants to play anything on       >>> BBS these days?       >>I have about 5 users that still log on here for games.. not like the old days       >> I'll grant you that :) :)              > In the old days (about 10 years ago) i had hundreds of logins every day, and       >had to set timelimits for the users.              Oh I remember those days |
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