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- DOORWRAP(1) FNORDADEL BBS SOFTWARE DOORWRAP(1)
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- NAME
- doorwrap.tos - wrapper for doors that don't take arguments
- properly
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- SYNOPSIS
- doorwrap doorname [args]
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- DESCRIPTION
- Arguments may be passed to programs using a variety of
- internal conventions. Atari has sanctioned one method,
- known as ARGV, and this is what Fnordadel uses to pass argu-
- ments to doors. However, we have seen programs that do not
- like this, and expect arguments in some other fashion.
- Doorwrap is intended to allow you to run these doors by tak-
- ing the arguments you give it and passing them to the door
- in the old-fashioned way.
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- To use doorwrap, simply prepend the full pathname of the
- doorwrap program to the entry in ctdldoor.sys for the
- offending door program. For example, if you have a program
- called foobar.tos which isn't taking its arguments
- correctly, and its line in ctdldoor.sys looks like
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- foobar ut c:\blort\foobar.tos -dv
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- you may try changing the line to
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- foobar ut c:\fnordbin\doorwrap.tos c:\blort\foobar.tos -dv
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- NOTES
- There is no guarantee, of course, that this program will
- solve any given problem, but it's worth a try.
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- The ``old-fashioned way'' of passing arguments enforces a
- limit of 126 characters on command lines. This shouldn't be
- a problem.
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- Doorwrap does not pass the environment to the door program,
- so if the door program is expecting the read environment
- variables it will be out of luck. This was done on purpose.
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- SEE ALSO
- The Fnordadel Reference Manual
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- AUTHOR
- Adrian Ashley (elim@secret).
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