Subj : Another filearea question
To : Shawn Highfield
From : Mvan Le
Date : Tue Jun 05 2007 05:07 am
SH> Hello Mvan,
SH> On 02/Jun/07 at 00:13 you wrote:
ML> I reached the website, but couldn't download the file. Internet
ML> Explorer timedout for some reason.
SH> Hrmmm.
ML> Maybe I should try reproducing your error by importing via MFM but
ML> I'm too lazy.
SH> Laugh know that feeling well. Are you able to import
SH> file_id.diz from MFM? I can't find the button to do
SH> that one. :)
Did MFM ever import file_id.diz's ? ... I forgot ...
ML> Btw do you have Arrowbridge I working ?
SH> No, I have Arrowbridge II working though... Might be
SH> the same trick, I had to use a dorinfox.def instead of
SH> door.sys or else nothing is displayed to the remote user.
I had the same problem with door.sys with AB-I. Probably because either Maximus
generates an incompatible and/or non-standard compliant door.sys or the AB
source code for retrieving node number from a standard door.sys dropfile is
wrong.
SH> Just need to change your dorinfo.mec file to create
SH> the dorinfox.def's as well since AB2 refuses to accept
SH> dorinfo1.def from node2.
Probably because it's looking for dorinfo2.def for node 2 etc. Atleast that's
how AB-I works ie. dorinfo<node>.def. I'm assuming AB-II works similarly.
Example ab1v140.bat:
=======================================================================
@echo off
rem ;
rem ; switch to game directory
rem ;
%bbsdrive%:
cd %gamesroot%\ab1v140
rem ;
rem ; copy dropfile
rem ;
rem ; door.sys doesn't work ... using dorinfo1.def instead
rem copy %max%\door.sys .
copy %max%\dorinfo1.def .\dorinfo%1.def
Example menus.Ctl:
=======================================================================
xtern_dos m:\games\ab1v140\ab1v140.bat_%k normal "Arrowbridge I"
=======================================================================
Apparently people adopted the numeral in dorinfo#.def to be a node designator
when it was never meant to be. It's probably a "dorinfo" dropfile specification
version number.
I can't get my AB-I character past Level 8 and am spewing.
--- Maximus/2 3.01
* Origin: Top Hat 2 BBS (1:343/41)
