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    From Daryl Stout@TBOLT to ALL on Tue Feb 26 12:07:00 2019
    I have a registered copy of RIPDOOR, created by one time GT Power
    Sysop Bill Watts. Yet, I can NOT get the download option with it to work
    under Synchronet...yet it worked under GT Power for dial-up.

    It notes in the documentation to set the DSZPORT at the comport (i.e.
    SET DSZPORT=1), and with telnet and a fossil driver, comport 1 is used
    by default, no matter how many nodes there are. I have put that command
    in my AUTOEXEC.NT file, but it doesn't seem to work.

    Synchronet also allow the setup of doors that didn't have a fossil
    driver when they were created...because you need a fossil driver for it
    to work under telnet, or a workaround for it with a generic dropfile,
    and the Doorway program.

    I've tried it with and without a fossil driver...and have also tried
    the initial version of DSZ, and the fossil version of DSZ (FDSZ), but
    nothing works.

    Even though RIP Graphics aren't around much, except in some doorgames
    and some BBS screens, I'd still like to have that option available.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Daryl

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  • From Mike Powell to Daryl Stout on Thu Feb 28 16:58:00 2019
    Daryl Stout wrote to ALL <=-

    It notes in the documentation to set the DSZPORT at the comport (i.e. SET DSZPORT=1), and with telnet and a fossil driver, comport 1 is used
    by default, no matter how many nodes there are. I have put that command
    in my AUTOEXEC.NT file, but it doesn't seem to work.

    Could it be that the program is expecting a '0' value for COM1, a '1' for
    COM2, etc.? I know that some programs, like the ADF fossil driver, expect that.

    Also, are you sure that synchronet is passing COM1 for every node? I have never tried setting up a DOS door so I don't know what it passes. I do
    know that, under linux, you have to be sure the dos emulator has that com
    port defined in the emulator config file... is that also true of the windoze dos emulator?

    Mike


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  • From Daryl Stout@TBOLT to MIKE POWELL on Fri Mar 1 15:07:00 2019
    Mike,

    Could it be that the program is expecting a '0' value for COM1, a '1' for MP>COM2, etc.? I know that some programs, like the ADF fossil driver, expect MP>that.

    I wouldn't think so...but I can try that.

    Also, are you sure that synchronet is passing COM1 for every node? I have MP>never tried setting up a DOS door so I don't know what it passes. I do MP>know that, under linux, you have to be sure the dos emulator has that com MP>port defined in the emulator config file... is that also true of the windoze MP>dos emulator?

    That I'm not sure of. But, I'll try anything at this point.

    What I may do is just create a generic dropfile, and see what that
    does.

    Daryl

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