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- Multi-Line Setup Instructions for PcBoard (other systems may apply too)
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-
- This door is relatively easy to set up on a multi-node system. I set mine
- up using PcBoard Ver 15.2 software in about 5 minutes. If you followed the
- instructions in PCB and set up your different nodes as directories under the
- PCB subdirectory called node1, node2, node3, etc, then you can apply this
- example directly. If you used different names, change the lines accordingly.
- I'm assuming that you've already set your board up as multi-node and it works
- correctly. Do this before continuing.
- I went into pcbsetup program and went to the configuration file for the
- doors. I used an empty slot (on my system it was 5) and put the name DROP in
- the first column. Fill in the rest accordingly with whatever you feel is
- necessary for your system. In the column that says "shell" I put Y. In the
- directory I put c:\pcb\drop This directory is the location of the files that
- are in the Drop 2 DOS door main archive. After you've done that and saved your
- new configuration file, go into the DROP directory, or wherever you put the
- Drop 2 DOS door files, and make a small batch file called DROP. Do not put BAT
- as the extension as in DROP.BAT. Just put DROP. (I'm assuming again that you
- understand how to make batch files..if you do not, consult your DOS manuals.)
- Inside this batch file put the following lines (Remember, where your names
- differ, change them accordingly..or drive letters, etc):
-
- @echo off
- cd \pcb\drop
- drop.exe %PCBDRIVE%%PCBDIR%\
- %PCBDRIVE%
- cd %PCBDIR%
-
- In PcBoard, PCBDRIVE and PCBDIR are global variables that signify the drive and
- directory that are associated with the node trying to load this door. So if you
- are on node 2, the second command would be substituted as:
- drop.exe c:\pcb\node2 (This is on my system, your node 2 might be in a
- different directory or a different drive). The above works fine for PCBoard,
- for the other BBS packages consult your BBS manual, to determine what global
- variables it uses to pass information like this. Yours might be %1 or %2, etc.
- Determine that, and enter that information above. What needs to occur here is
- that drop.exe needs to know where the appropriate drop file is going to be. If
- you have it set wrong, you will see a message flashed saying "Critical Error
- [OPENDOORS]: Door information file missing." If you get that error, check your
- batch file.
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