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New Things and Fixes by Steven R. Lorenz
1. IRQs 0-15 now supported. Comports 1-4 supported. Required change in
ASYNC.asm (called SLASYNC here).
Selectable Port Addresses added to .CTL file so sysop doesn't have to
have a bunch of if 'nodex == 1 goto xxx' in his doorx.bat.
2. DV aware routines. Use examples as guide to installation.
a. DV_Pause added to sreadch to make DV work more smoothly.
3. High speed BBS modem vs lowspeed user modem problem of lost characters -
(basically RTS/CTS checking) - Fixed
4. Carrierdetect during sendchar. Fixed
5. Rip detect. Or WC3.9 or PCBoard15.0 dropfile driven.
6. Fast and correct ansi color routines.
7. PCBoard 15 support
8. Rip Detect or found on WC3.9+ or PCB15 dropfiles
9. TriBBS dropfile support (untested)
10.RBBS vs Super BBS Dorinfo types supported
11.Lock baud and comm baud rates to 115,200
12.Windows,WindowsNT,OS/2,DOS 5.0+ time slice releasing.
A Dos,Win, DV pause is taken after so many read cycles in read loop
13.fossil support to 38,400 using normal fossil calls.
fossil support to 115,200 using X00 extended fossil calls.
Use XFossil for any fossils (X00 or BNU) over 38,400. This option does
not open or close the fossil but meerly writes to it the way it is.
Versions:
6.1
Added mixture of tasker pause and loop cycles in Ripdetect and read char
to give a smoother response.
6.2
Missed Done Routine in 6.1 - now doesn't close if local or X00extOK
but buffered flag is set to true.
There was a file being written to when door timed out. Some OS2 systems
complained of endless pages being written to their disk. I'm taking this
out this version. So if you have a use for it save it and put it back in.
6.3
Wrong-O I guess a lot of you are using this file so I'm putting it back in.
Added /C to specify comport on command line. Dropfile comport number will
override this option.
The Following might be added to your sysop.doc file:
....parameters may be used.
"/E" - Expanded Memory Specification If your machine has over one
megabyte of memory, then you may have some available. DDPLUS can
utilize EMS to improve game performance and reduce conventional
memory requirements.
This command will tell DDPLUS.exe to use EMS memory to hold its
overlay buffer. Otherwise disc area may be used to hold this buffer.
This needs a memory manager and when enabled and is compatible with
DESQview.
"/L" This tells DDPLUS.EXE to load up in LOCAL mode.
This is good for testing or when a sysop just wants to "try out" the
door without messing with his BBS setup. The "/L" mode will ask the
user for his name and run the door in local mode.
"/Bxxxxx" This tells DDPLUS.EXE to lock its baud rate at
xxxxx. In order to get the most efficiency out of a high speed
error correcting modem (9600 baud or above), you may lock the baud
rate to a speed higher than what the caller is actually using.
By locking the baud to say 38,400, the modem can compress text data
that is being sent and achieve a baud rate much higher than the
actual transmission rate.
This will lock the baud rate at the same value for all nodes that
use this command line. If you perfer a more selective way to lock
baud use 'LOCKBAUD' command in the DDPLUS.CTL file.
"/Cx" (where x is 1..4) This specifies a comport number.
Some bbs software does not create door information files (dropfiles)
that contain the comport number. If your bbs does have a comport
listed in the dropfile then there is no need for this parameter.
The default is comport 0, local mode.
"/Nx" (where x is 1..9) This specifies a "node number".
Some bbs software support multinode environments in which you must
know the node number of the drop file to use. For example, RBBS-PC
uses DORINFOx.DEF. If you specified "/N2" then DDPLUS.EXE would
use DORINFO2.DEF.
"/Pyyy" This specifies the path to the drop files.
For example, "/PC:\WC30\WCWORK\NODE1" would tell DDPLUS.EXE to
look for the drop file in C:\WC30\WCWORK\NODE1. If this is left out
the program assumes the drop file is local.