Well, I thought I had the BBS set up to run the doors in
legacy mode, and even checked the command prompt window.
The legacy mode is activated, but the older doors don't
work.

If I can get the doors and REP mail working, I think the
only thing to wait on is mail to start flowing again.

Daryl
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Re: Door Issues
By: Daryl Stout to All on Sun May 31 2020 09:28 pm

Well, I thought I had the BBS set up to run the doors in
legacy mode, and even checked the command prompt window.
The legacy mode is activated, but the older doors don't
work.

What is "legacy mode"?

digital man

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Rob,

What is "legacy mode"?

Where the 16-bit doors can run under Windows 10 32-bit.
I'm wondering if it's a DOSFIX (runtime 200 error), and
need to convert all the doors to just run off a batchfile.

However, with thunderstorms forecast Wednesday and
Thursday of this week...along with my having hernia
surgery on Thursday...then more storms early next week,
depending on the path of Tropical Cyclone Cristobal, I
may be offline for thunderstorms, flooding rain, and a
tornado threat.

Daryl

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Re: Re: Door Issues
By: Daryl Stout to Digital Man on Mon Jun 01 2020 09:18 pm

Rob,

What is "legacy mode"?

Where the 16-bit doors can run under Windows 10 32-bit.

I don't think so. There is a Windows "legacy console mode", but that has nothing to do with 16-bit programs.

I'm wondering if it's a DOSFIX (runtime 200 error), and
need to convert all the doors to just run off a batchfile.

I don't see how a batch file would make any difference.

More likely, it's one of these known configuration problems: http://wiki.synchro.net/faq:win#sbbsexecdll



digital man

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Rob,

More likely, it's one of these known configuration problems: http://wiki.synchro.net/faq:win#sbbsexecdll

What I ended up doing was making backups of the ctrl, data, exec,
and text directories (with their subdirectories), then doing a full
install of Synchronet. Then, I copied that data back to the respective directories. To finish it, I copied NTVDM*.* from c:\windows\system32
to c:\sbbs\exec -- and all is working.

There are only 2 issues left...

1) I think it's because of the monitor resolution...in SyncTerm, I
have the mode at 80x25, but the bottom left of it looks funky.

2) Some of the incoming FTN/QWK packets are "bad"...not sure what
the cause is of that.

Daryl

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Re: Re: Door Issues
By: Daryl Stout to Digital Man on Mon Jun 08 2020 09:22 am

Rob,

More likely, it's one of these known configuration problems: http://wiki.synchro.net/faq:win#sbbsexecdll

What I ended up doing was making backups of the ctrl, data, exec,
and text directories (with their subdirectories), then doing a full
install of Synchronet. Then, I copied that data back to the respective directories. To finish it, I copied NTVDM*.* from c:\windows\system32
to c:\sbbs\exec -- and all is working.

Most likely, the only thing you *needed* to do was copy sbbsexec.dll to your Windows/system32 directory.

There are only 2 issues left...

1) I think it's because of the monitor resolution...in SyncTerm, I
have the mode at 80x25, but the bottom left of it looks funky.

Which version of SyncTERM? Post bug reports for SyncTERM here: https://sourceforge.net/p/syncterm/tickets/

2) Some of the incoming FTN/QWK packets are "bad"...not sure what
the cause is of that.

Still using the 16-bit DOS version of PKUNZIP?

digital man

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Re: Re: Door Issues
By: Digital Man to Daryl Stout on Mon Jun 08 2020 08:10 pm

2) Some of the incoming FTN/QWK packets are "bad"...not sure what
the cause is of that.

Still using the 16-bit DOS version of PKUNZIP?

There was an instance I saw years ago where some of the QWK packets I was receiving from another QWK host BBS weren't able to be unzipped with the info-zip unzip. I tried the official 32-bit pkzip 2.5 for Windows command-line (which handles both zipping and unzipping) and that worked fine. I set that up in the extract command for ZIP in SCFG in my extractable files configuration and have been using it since.

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Rob,

Most likely, the only thing you *needed* to do was copy sbbsexec.dll to your Windows/system32 directory.

That never occurred to me...preparing for surgery last week, and now the recovery, has consumed more time than the BBS.

Which version of SyncTERM? Post bug reports for SyncTERM here: https://sourceforge.net/p/syncterm/tickets/

The funky items don't show up from the website with echicken's interface, with the "Login Via Telnet" option. I've used either 80x25 or Current for
the video mode in SyncTerm, and it still shows up under SyncTerm. I'm wondering if it's because of the resolution of the monitors (much smaller
than 1024x768).

2) Some of the incoming FTN/QWK packets are "bad"...not sure what
the cause is of that.

Still using the 16-bit DOS version of PKUNZIP?

No...I was using ZIP and UNZIP for netmail and echomail...and am using it
for QWK Mail as well.

Daryl

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