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Sample program of RBBS doors by Matt Malden 11/27/85
With this file is a sample program for use with RBBS to
demonstrate the doors feature. First, there are a few discrep-
ancies between my interpretation on how to make the doors
feature work, and that of the RBBS documentation. When the file
RCTTY.BAT is executed, it executes another batch file with the
name of that particular door. It is my experience, that you can
not return to the RCTTY.BAT. So, at the end of your doors batch
file, you must reinvoke RBBS.BAT. Also, the way that the doors
menu works is it checks to see if the door name that you wanted
to open. Then, if it is in all capital letters in the RBBS file
MENU5, it runs the batch file of that name with the extension
.BAT. One problem though, if my menu says:
DOORS - a sample program written by Matt Malden
one can upload a file called ORS.BAT and run this batch file
by opening the ORS file. (The ORS is the last three letters in
DOORS). So, make sure your batch files are on a ram drive or
other drive unable to be uploaded on. In general, the program
has to do is print everything to the Comm port and if you wish,
echo it to the screen. The initial part of DOORS.BAS (the demo
file) shows how to read in the users communication parameters. I
have not experimented with a 2400 baud modem, so 2400 baud users
will have to experiment on what the BPS number will be for 2400
baud. Also, I am not quite sure how to detect if the user needs
line feeds without plainly asking. So, to be safe, put an option
to toggle line feeds in whatever program you write. Any
questions or comments would be appreciate regarding any misinter-
pretations of this sample program or any further developments.
Matt Malden
Sysop of Jaguar Computing
Data: (301) 983-3213
P.S.- Try out QUESTAR in the doors subsystem.