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WILDCAT v3.x BBS Door\Caller File Interfaces
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WildCat BBS v3.0 and above can directly produce two caller info files for
use with external programs like Doors.
They are;
(1) USERINFO.DAT (native to WC3.x)
(2) DOOR.SYS (a standard adopted by GAP Communications)
If you are going to use the caller info file named "USERINFO.DAT", you
must SET the port being used for the game in your DOS Environment. The
file USERINFO.DAT does not contain the PORT number being used! It only
contains the DCE baud rate (actual callers baud rate not PORT DTE rate).
For any external program to know what PORT to open for communications
it must look in the Environment to see if the port ID variable has been
set.
This means if you type SET and press ENTER on the DOS command line, your
DOS Environment variables will be displayed. In there should be the
following variable assignment;
WCPORTID=2
...this would be for the BBS using COM 2 or in the case of it using COM 1,
WCPORTID=1
...If its not there you can easily SET this in your AUTOEXEC.BAT with the
following statement;
SET WCPORTID=2
If you need to only set the PORT ID for this one game, you can do it on the
FIRST LINE of the calling batchfile for the game;
SET WCPORTID=2
DCASTLE /WC3
CD C:\BBS
EXIT
If you DO NOT wish to use WILDCATS v3.0 new caller file (USERINFO.DAT)
you must then use the DOOR.SYS caller file that WC writes and change the
path to DOOR.SYS in line #4 of the CASTLE.CFG file and call the game with
the "/GAP" switch. This tells the game to read DOOR.SYS for caller info.
Example;
DCASTLE /GAP
The standardization of BBS's using the DOOR.SYS file began with the GAP
Communications System BBS and has continued onto WildCat as well now.
The use of the "/GAP" command line switch and reading the DOOR.SYS that
Wildcat produces works fine, as WC3.0 does write a "standard" DOOR.SYS
caller info file as adopted by GAP Communications some years back.
So, you as a WC3.x user have two different ways to directly interface
this and all other Late-Nite games for your WildCat 3.x BBS.
-Marv