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 Fz> Re: Michael Jordan Doors...
 Fz> By: Martin Kazmaier to All on Tue Jun 24 2025 03:00 pm

 Fz> MK> I've noticed a few weird things with these doors...  First, they
 Fz> don't
 Fz> MK> work with my fossil driver unless I use the commandline "NOFOSSIL"
 Fz> instead
 Fz> MK> of "FOSSIL".

 Fz> Just a guess, but did you mistype FOSSIL when you were trying it the first
 Fz> time?  It just seeks "FOSSIL" on the command line instead of looking for
 Fz> any exact match.  So "TRIBINGO.EXE FOSSIL" enables FOSSIL as does
 Fz> "TRIBINGO.EXE pleasedonotusetheFOSSILorweallaregonnadierighthereandnow".

 Fz> The docs don't seem to be fully updated throughout.  So the bits where it
 Fz> states to use "FOSSILOFF" to disable automatic FOSSIL detection actually
 Fz> will enable its use.  But the current behavior is shown in the command
 Fz> line parameters section.

 Fz> MK> Also, if I run door.bat tb%1.cfg NOFOSSIL  for tribingo as an
 Fz> MK> example, it always loads tb1.cfg and the user name is always
 Fz> MK> interpreted as the node 1 user.

 Fz> I haven't checked the docs for all of the games, but in Tri-Bingo at
 Fz> least:

 Fz> -- SNIP --

 Fz> The setup of Tri-Bingo changes the way my previous doors are setup.  I now
 Fz> support and require the use of Environment Variables to supply the  game
 Fz> with the Com Port and Node Directory information. The game will  read any
 Fz> environment variable that you supply so names are not critical.

 Fz> The game now only reads the TRIBINGO.CFG file and will not accept any
 Fz> other name for the configuration file. So this is the file that will
 Fz> contain the environment variables.

Yeah, I'm using just the main config for each game; it seems to ignore what's
actually specified with %WCNODEID% set to the node number and using that to
specify that path to the dropfile.  The docs say that some systems may need
to use NOFOSSIL, which works for me.  If I don't use that command, it doesn't
seem to work properly.  I didn't try just using "FOSSIL", so it may indeed
just be pickign that up...  Any way, everything is working for me now!

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