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   Vincent Jacobs to Chris Hizny   
   Re: AI-WX Weather Door   
   05 Jan 26 15:24:51   
   
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     Re: Re: AI-WX Weather Door   
     By: Chris Hizny to Vincent Jacobs on Mon Jan 05 2026 07:45 pm   
      
    > This is outstanding work.  It's...kind of next-level.   
    > I have a question.  Currently, I'm testing with the following arguments:   
    >   
    > -D%P (door.sys hook)   
    > -I%4 (pass geolocated IP address of user)   
    > -U (show current conditions by default)   
    >   
    > It would be nice to have an option, upon exiting from the Current Conditions   
    > view, to drop to the main menu for the door, rather than out of the door   
    > entirely.  I totally get why the default behavior is as it is (such as if   
    > you'd like to just show something during the login process) and then   
    > immediately continue on.   
    >   
    > However, for now at least, I'm running this from my Door menu, and it would   
    > be nice to show current conditions by default, then drop back to the menu   
    > for the door with the...almost shocking number of other options.  If this is   
    > possible already, please let me know.   
    >   
    > Again, outstanding work.  Getting weather working through DUAT back in the   
    > 90s was, for some odd reason, amazingly satisfying.  This door you wrote is   
    > something else entirely.   
    >  * Origin: Shipwrecks & Shibboleths [San Francisco, CA - USA] (1:218/860)   
      
   Thanks Chris, I appreciate the kind words, I really do. Currenty the door only   
   runs executable command line parameters one at a time. But you could achieve   
   something close to what you want with a batch/bash file. One line could call   
   the -D%P -I%4 -U parameters as you are currently doing and then a second line   
   could call the -D%P -I%4 -Q parameters that would drop the user to the Main   
   Menu. It would not be as seemless as me doing it within code, but I think it   
   would do what you want.   
      
   Hope this helps,   
      
   Vincent Jacobs   
   Lone Wolf Software   
   AI-WX Weather   
      
   PS, I have a free door game I just finished available for download on my BBS   
   at firesidebbs.com:23231. Look for the Shut the Box door game in the Lone Wolf   
   Software file area. Versions for Windows and Linux.   
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