Subj : Re: Mystic and GameServ
To   : Andy Gorman
From : g00r00
Date : Sun May 02 2021 03:10 pm

AG> I've decided to try GameServ for my door hosting and was wondering how
AG> does one get Mystic to create a door drop file if we're telnetting over
AG> to the GameServ.  I tried to add a command before the telnet command but
AG> the drop file gets delet ed before the telnet session loads.

I think you would use a door command but then have it run a script that would copy the drop files from the node's temp directory to wherever it has to go for GameServ to read it.

I've never used GameServ so I am curious what it does that would be appealing to use?  Mystic for example already does the same door I/O redirection and can auto login/create accounts via RLOGIN/SSH.  Is it just to have a centralized thing that isn't built around a specific BBS software?

To be clear I am not trying to question the decision or something like that, I'm just trying to pick your brain to get inspiration!  I have a bunch of ideas of my own to revamp Mystic's own door system that I've been meaning to do for years now, but its always good to collect insight from as many people as I can!

(Oddly enough Mystic 2.0 demo from 2001-2004 time period has a lot of the door stuff I wanted to do and that stuff is STILL not in Mystic 1.x in 2021 lol)

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