• BBS Link

    From Kevin@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, November 23, 2019 20:04:10
    From: kevin@bbs.ec

    Hello !

    Has anybody tried setting up BBS Link (http://bbslink.net/) with Wildcat! v6 and had
    success ?

    I can get the connection fine using cmd.exe, but when I try and launch the .bat
    from
    Wildcat!'s door menu it farts back at me to the same screen.

    Thanks !

    -Kevin

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  • From city.damascus.va@gmail.com@1:229/2 to Kevin on Saturday, July 04, 2020 21:50:41
    On Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 1:14:08 PM UTC-6, Kevin wrote:
    Hello !

    Has anybody tried setting up BBS Link (http://bbslink.net/) with Wildcat! v6
    and had
    success ?

    I can get the connection fine using cmd.exe, but when I try and launch the
    .bat from
    Wildcat!'s door menu it farts back at me to the same screen.

    Thanks !

    -Kevin

    Wildcat v5 and up sucks when it comes to doors. It wants everything ran from a batch file in the c:\wc6\batch directory. You can't launch anything but a .BAT from the door configuration.

    To answer your question, NO, I spent about 4-5 hours trying to get BBSlink to work on Wildcat! v8. I could run it locally form the command prompt fine, but when WC called it as a door, all hell breaks loose.

    The only thing I can say is WC handles doors very poorly. I needed to run a door at login which would send me a text when someone logged on to the system. I then found out there is no login door like with other BBS packages like Serchlight or Synchronet.
    I have to create a small wcBASIC app and compile it, which would then call the program from a files called logon-hooks.txt which was play in the C:\WCAT\CONFIG\ directory. All the to just run a login door.

    Let me know if you ever got BBSLink Doors to work on your system and how you done it.

    Best,

    Kent

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  • From Kevin@1:229/2 to All on Wednesday, July 08, 2020 18:50:20
    From: kevin@bbs.ec

    On 05/07/2020 06:50, city.damascus.va@gmail.com wrote to All:

    Let me know if you ever got BBSLink Doors to work on your system and how you
    done
    it.

    Hey Kent,

    To be honest I dropped it for a while, I'm going to start having a go at it again and see if I
    can get anywhere. I'll try and document it in case it actually works, but it sounds like I
    might not be taking a winning battle...

    -Kevin

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