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    From Ascii Express@VERT to All on Sat Jan 18 18:59:46 2014
    I read a suggestion to make a command.com door for SysOps only to set up doors etc. Can someone explain how to do this? I tried making a door and for the external program specified the full path and filename of command.com in DosEmu's directory. I set intercept I/O to standard with echo. Still nothing.






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  • From Mro@VERT to Ascii Express on Sat Jan 18 20:53:42 2014
    Re: command.com
    By: Ascii Express to All on Sat Jan 18 2014 06:59 pm

    I read a suggestion to make a command.com door for SysOps only to set up doors etc. Can someone explain how to do this? I tried making a door and
    for the external program specified the full path and filename of
    command.com in DosEmu's directory. I set intercept I/O to standard with echo. Still nothing.


    you can do that with doorway.

    if i were you i'd just use vnc, though.
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  • From Nightfox@VERT to Ascii Express on Sat Jan 18 23:25:47 2014
    Re: command.com
    By: Ascii Express to All on Sat Jan 18 2014 18:59:46

    I read a suggestion to make a command.com door for SysOps only to set up doors etc. Can someone explain how to do this? I tried making a door and for the external program specified the full path and filename of command.com in DosEmu's directory. I set intercept I/O to standard with echo. Still nothing.

    You might want to look into CIOXTRN (in Synchronet's xtrn directory). CIOXTRN is supposed to be able to launch text-mode/DOS programs like doors. There's also the old Doorway door, which is a 16-bit DOS door that can run DOS programs as BBS doors. CIOXTRN is newer though (and was developed by Deuce for use with Synchronet).

    Nightfox

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  • From ASCII Express@VERT to Mro on Mon Jan 20 17:34:45 2014
    Re: command.com
    By: Mro to Ascii Express on Sat Jan 18 2014 08:53 pm

    you can do that with doorway.
    Actually I discovered the ;dos command by accident. I meant to type ;shell and had dosemu on my mind so typed ;dos and lo and behold it worked!

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  • From ASCII Express@VERT to Nightfox on Mon Jan 20 17:35:57 2014
    Re: command.com
    By: Nightfox to Ascii Express on Sat Jan 18 2014 11:25 pm

    You might want to look into CIOXTRN (in Synchronet's xtrn directory). CIOXT
    RN
    is supposed to be able to launch text-mode/DOS programs like doors. There's also the old Doorway door, which is a 16-bit DOS door that can run DOS progr
    ams
    as BBS doors. CIOXTRN is newer though (and was developed by Deuce for use w
    ith
    Synchronet).
    Oh yeah I forgot about doorway. I'll check out CIOXTRN, thanks.

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  • From Mro@VERT to ASCII Express on Mon Jan 20 21:06:08 2014
    Re: command.com
    By: ASCII Express to Mro on Mon Jan 20 2014 05:34 pm

    Re: command.com
    By: Mro to Ascii Express on Sat Jan 18 2014 08:53 pm

    you can do that with doorway.
    Actually I discovered the ;dos command by accident. I meant to type ;shell and had dosemu on my mind so typed ;dos and lo and behold it worked!


    yeah, it will work to some extent but not with some door setups.
    doorway redirects the output.

    either way, vnc is better.
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  • From Poindexter Fortran@VERT to Mro on Tue Jan 21 10:15:58 2014
    Re: command.com
    By: Mro to ASCII Express on Mon Jan 20 2014 09:06 pm

    Actually I discovered the ;dos command by accident. I meant to type
    ;shell and had dosemu on my mind so typed ;dos and lo and behold it
    worked!


    yeah, it will work to some extent but not with some door setups.
    doorway redirects the output.

    either way, vnc is better.

    If anyone's on Windows, I'd suggest you take a look at Remote administrator from Famatech (http://www.famatech.com). Their remote product supports file transfers, chat, and view-only, selectable ports, and uses encryption. It'll do Kerberos or support its own user db.

    The speed is MUCH better than anything I've gotten out of VNC. I've gotten in the habit of running Syncterm locally on the BBS and remoting into it from work (I'm doing that now, should be working instead)

    $49 per system.

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