23 Oct 15 14:03, you wrote to me:

 ml>> the tricky part is going to be creating the door32.sys but i have an
 ml>> idea on that, too... it uses one of RA's template capabilities to
 ml>> make a stub file with all the other lines needed from line 3 to the
 ml>> end of the drop file... in the menu line for the door would be
 ml>> something like

 ml>>   *c /c mydoor.bat *Sd32sys

i found *R will emit the user's record number to the .bat file...

 ml>> which will use the RATemplate file D32SYS.RAT in the main RA
 ml>> directory to create a file named "D32SYS" in the node's directory...
 ml>> D32SYS.RAT would look like this...

 ml>> ===== snip =====
 ml>> ^KR
 ml>> RemoteAccess 2.60
 ml>>
 ml>> ^Fa
 ml>> ^F3
 ml>> ^Fo
 ml>> ^F_
 ml>> 1
 ml>> ^KW
 ml>> ===== snip =====

 ml>> ^K is the actual ALT-011 character
 ml>> ^F is the actual ALT-006 character

 ml>> the blank line is for the user's record number and we don't have any
 ml>> way to get that via these ^K and ^F macros...

see above... i found that we can get the user number on the command line but
figuring out how to drop it into the D32SYS or final DOOR32.SYS file is
another problem... looks like we might have to pass the speed and BBS name and
version as parameters to the BAT file so we can get the user number in
there... that'll change the RAT file, the menu line and the MYDOOR.BAT file...

 ml>> the '1' in the next to last line /forces/ ANSI mode because we can't
 ml>> determine which of ASCII, ANSI, Avatar or RIP is used via the macros
 ml>> without some script processing of the values... since RA doesn't do
 ml>> Max Graphics, we don't have to worry about that one...

 ml>> then in your door's bat file we would do something like this...

 ml>> ===== snip =====
 ml>> @echo off
 ml>> REM mydoor.bat
 ml>> REM start with a new door32.sys and show a telnet connection
 ml>> echo 2 > door32.sys

 ml>> REM set socket handle in door32.sys
 ml>> echo %T-HANDLE >> door32.sys

 ml>> REM get the rest of the settings from the d32sys file
 ml>> type d32sys >> door32.sys

 ml>> REM now run our door and cross our fingers
 ml>> runmydoor.exe
 ml>> :end
 ml>> ===== snip =====

we cannot run two RAT files so building everything that we can into the one
D32SYS file is all we have at this point... it is going to take some serious
BAT magic to replace the blank line with the contents of %1 in the about
MYDOOR.BAT file...

 DA> I don't know RA but that sounds just right. Since the BBSLink client
 DA> for windows is based on the R&M Telnet Door, it needs the DOOR32.SYS.
 DA> From this file, it should get the Handle and the user number.

we rarely do anything with user numbers... getting that out and into the
door32.sys file is going to be tough...

 DA> The only thing else that's needed it the door code and that you pass
 DA> manually as a parameter when invoking the telnet door from the RA
 DA> menu.

yeah, that can be added in elsewhere... right now i want to try to get
DOOR32.SYS files being created properly... then the rest should be a
no-brainer ;)

 ml>> NOTE: i've not actually tested any of this... it should work or at
 ml>> least be very very close to what is needed  :)

this still stands but i am kicking this through my system as a test just to
see if i can get a valid DOOR32.SYS to be written...

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