MSGID: 1:229/426 8C437A09   
   REPLY: 66.fidorenegade@1:322/757 24a009ab   
   TZUTC: -0500   
   On 27 Feb 21  18:19:05, Jim Haight said the following to All:   
      
   JH> OK! I have to laugh because I cannot seem to figure out the routine to call   
   JH> doors. Since I've done this with menu based systems before, I configured LO   
   JH> in the menu and dabbled with calling start.bat in the game directory and/or   
   JH> tried a lord.bat in the bbs directory. Nothing has worked yet. I did this   
   JH> successfully like 15 years ago but my question now is.. do you need to init   
   JH> a fossil driver like netfoss similar to Mystic or Ele? Or are you people st   
   JH> using fossils like BNU?   
   JH>    
   JH> I am running the bbs under windows XP using Net2BBS as my telnet front end.   
      
   If you are using Net2BBS then presumably you're using NetFoss, which would   
   already be emulating the Fossil driver necessary for Renegade and subsequently   
   all of your door games to run. Manipulating Fossil stuff is completely   
   unnecessary unless you plan to offer a dialup-line.   
      
   The problem is likely in how you are calling Lord. That game expects a    
   dropfile to exist at a path you define; and Renegade only creates dropfiles in   
   directories you define.   
      
   On this system that game is called as:   
      
   Menu filename: ONLINE   
   Command #3 of 56   
      
   1. Long descript :(1) LORD - Legend of the Red Dragon   
   2. Short descript:(1) LORD   
   3. Menu keys     :1   
   4. ACS required  :""   
   5. Cmdkeys       :DG   
   6. Options       :doors\lord\start.bat (percent N)   
      Flags         :None   
   Q. Quit   
      
   DG meaning Renegade should write a DOOR.SYS dropfile and Percent-N passing the   
   current node-number. You must also define the temporary directory in System   
   Config-Modem/Node as thats where the dropfile is written. Then tell Lordcfg to   
   reach the appropriate directories.    
      
   The first line of Start.bat actually must change the directory to   
   \renegade\doors\lord since by default the working directory is \renegade.   
   Renegade and Lord must also be configured to "lock" the COM port at a set    
   rate, lets say 57600.   
      
   Nick   
      
   --- Renegade vY2Ka2   
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