I wonder how you all solve problem with doors that require com ports? how you all get them to work?
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, Nathan Prugh wrote to All:

I wonder how you all solve problem with doors that require com
ports? how you all get them to work?

in what OS? for OS/2 and winwhatever, virtual modems work... in *nix, dosbox or
similar provides the link between the virtual com port and telnet... i think it
is dosbox but...

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Re: fifi2 door by davisware
By: mark lewis to Nathan Prugh on Thu Mar 27 2014 09:07 pm

On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, Nathan Prugh wrote to All:

I wonder how you all solve problem with doors that require com
ports? how you all get them to work?

in what OS? for OS/2 and winwhatever, virtual modems work... in *nix, dosbox or similar provides the link between the virtual com port and telnet... i think it is dosbox but...

Okay, Can you give me idea of the setup with dosbox so i can call up a door game like fifi to work with com ports when they drop to the door with drop file

and the setup on the bbs too?

Thank you for the reply...

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Re: fifi2 door by davisware
By: Nathan Prugh to All on Thu Mar 27 2014 09:36 am

I wonder how you all solve problem with doors that require com ports? how you all get them to work?

Synchronet's NT Virtual FOSSIL/UART driver (sbbsexec.dll) can emulate a physical COM port (UART), for those pesky programs that don't support FOSSIL.

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Re: fifi2 door by davisware
By: Nathan Prugh to All on Thu Mar 27 2014 09:36:17

I wonder how you all solve problem with doors that require com ports?
how you all get them to work?

Is it a DOS door? If so, you can copy sbbsexec.ini into the door's startup directory, then edit that sbbsexec.ini to specify which COM port the door needs. That has worked for me with similar DOS doors. Synchronet will emulate a COM port at the specified port number.

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On Fri, 28 Mar 2014, Internetking wrote to mark lewis:

I wonder how you all solve problem with doors that require com
ports? how you all get them to work?

in what OS? for OS/2 and winwhatever, virtual modems work... in *nix, dosbox or similar provides the link between the virtual com port and telnet... i think it is dosbox but...

Okay, Can you give me idea of the setup with dosbox

*I* cannot because i don't use it on any of my systems with any of the bbs software packages i have in operation... plus, as i noted above, "i /think/ it is dosbox but..." i might have been thinking of dosemu... others have provided the info in the past and will likely pop in with the assistance again...

you still didn't say what OS you are running on...

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I wonder how you all solve problem with doors that require com
ports? how you all get them to work?

in what OS? for OS/2 and winwhatever, virtual modems work... in *nix, dosbox or similar provides the link between the virtual com port and telnet... i think it is dosbox but...

Okay, Can you give me idea of the setup with dosbox

*I* cannot because i don't use it on any of my systems with any of the bbs software packages i have in operation... plus, as i noted above, "i /think/ it is dosbox but..." i might have been thinking of dosemu... others have provided the info in the past and will likely pop in with the assistance again...

you still didn't say what OS you are running on...

it my bbs, and it win. 7 home premium 32 bit

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