Category : BBS Programs+Doors
Archive   : CKIT258.ZIP
Filename : DOORSYS.TXT

 
Output of file : DOORSYS.TXT contained in archive : CKIT258.ZIP
03/14/88 - Submitted by the "Limited Release Software Group"

Updated: 03/21/88
Updated: 10/22/88 KG
Updated: 07/07/90 KG, to add additional info for Raymond Clements

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Sample DOOR.SYS file to be used as a STANDARD for ALL Bulletin Board Systems.

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This file format has been laid out and will be presented to ALL BBS authors
in an attempt to establish a national standard for door program applications.

BBS AUTHORS: I urge you to consider this STANDARD with respect for your 3rd
party support authors. Come on guys, make life EASY for us.
(BIG GRIN)

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I have tried to include EVERYTHING a 3rd party DOOR author would need to
provide the SYSOPS with the look and feel they want from an online program
while at the same time keeping things plain and simple to ease the problems
of interfacing programs with a system.

This type of format is intended to be a "read-write" type of file. This file
format, once established, wouldn't need to be changed EVERYTIME a new version
of the BBS software gets released and this would also ease the demand for more
info being made available in the BBS Re-Entry file thus making life easier for
both parties. If there is something found in the following format that your BBS
software may not be currently supporting, a DEFAULT value has been suggested.
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KG, Note:

When reading this file, you should not go into an EOF loop. In
other words, you should not read until you encounter End Of File.
Instead, you should read what you KNOW is there. This allows for
additions to the end of the file without forcing all programs to be
re-compiled.


DOOR.SYS
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COM1: <-- Comm Port - COM0: = LOCAL MODE
2400 <-- Baud Rate - 300 to 38400
8 <-- Parity - 7 or 8
1 <-- Node Number - 1 to 99 (Default to 1)
19200 <-- DTE Rate. Actual BPS rate to use. (kg)
Y <-- Screen Display - Y=On N=Off (Default to Y)
Y <-- Printer Toggle - Y=On N=Off (Default to Y)
Y <-- Page Bell - Y=On N=Off (Default to Y)
Y <-- Caller Alarm - Y=On N=Off (Default to Y)
Rick Greer <-- User Full Name
Lewisville, Tx. <-- Calling From
214 221-7814 <-- Home Phone
214 221-7814 <-- Work/Data Phone
PASSWORD <-- Password
110 <-- Security Level
1456 <-- Total Times On
03/14/88 <-- Last Date Called
7560 <-- Seconds Remaining THIS call (for those that particular)
126 <-- Minutes Remaining THIS call
GR <-- Graphics Mode - GR=Graph, NG=Non-Graph, 7E=7,E Caller
23 <-- Page Length
Y <-- User Mode - Y = Expert, N = Novice
1,2,3,4,5,6,7 <-- Conferences/Forums Registered In (ABCDEFG)
7 <-- Conference Exited To DOOR From (G)
01/01/99 <-- User Expiration Date (mm/dd/yy)
1 <-- User File's Record Number
Y <-- Default Protocol - X, C, Y, G, I, N, Etc.
0 <-- Total Uploads
0 <-- Total Downloads
0 <-- Daily Download "K" Total
999999 <-- Daily Download Max. "K" Limit
10/22/88 <-- Caller's Birthdate (kg)
G:\GAP\MAIN <-- Path to the MAIN directory (where User File is) (kg)
G:\GAP\GEN <-- Path to the GEN directory (kg)
Michael <-- Sysop's Name (name BBS refers to Sysop as) (kg)
Stud <-- Alias name (rc)
00:05 <-- Event time (hh:mm) (rc)
Y <-- If its an error correcting connection (Y/N) (rc)
N <-- ANSI supported & caller using NG mode (Y/N) (rc)
Y <-- Use Record Locking (Y/N) (rc)
14 <-- BBS Default Color (Standard IBM color code, ie, 1-15) (rc)
10 <-- Time Credits In Minutes (positive number) (rc)
07/07/90 <-- Last New Files Scan Date (mm/dd/yy) (rc)
14:32 <-- Time of This Call (hh:mm) (rc)
07:30 <-- Time of Last Call (hh:mm) (rc)
6 <-- Maximum daily files available (rc)
3 <-- Files d/led so far today (rc)
23456 <-- Total "K" Bytes Uploaded (rc)
76329 <-- Total "K" Bytes Downloaded (rc)
A File Sucker <-- User Comment (rc)
10 <-- Total Doors Opened (rc)
10283 <-- Total Messages Left (rc)


***** Each line is STRAIGHT ASCII TEXT with a CR/LF at the end. *****

Please feel free to express any comments you may have on this format, or
leave suggestions you have for additions to the file to.....

Raymond Clements, David Terry, or Kenny Gardner

Rick Greer, the author of this Universal Specification, is no
where to be found!



  3 Responses to “Category : BBS Programs+Doors
Archive   : CKIT258.ZIP
Filename : DOORSYS.TXT

  1. Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!

  2. This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.

  3. But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/