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The following TIPS and TRICKS are provided courtesy of T&J SOFTWARE.
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They are not related to ChAoS Online or to Chat With Lisa. But they
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do use the same DoorFrame software as Lisa. So if you are having
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problems with Lisa, the following information might help:
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WILDCAT! 4.0
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* Problems may develop using the DOOR.SYS drop file if you have
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a LARGE number of conferences. I would suggest picking up a copy
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of a file called FDOORSYS.ZIP written by Tim Rider (Tim can be
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reached on The Source BBS at 310-371-3737). Here is what Tim's
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documentation states:
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* WildCat! 4.0 allows up to 32,000 conference areas. Due to the
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specifications of DOOR.SYS, all the conferences that a user is
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joined to are written to line #23 of DOOR.SYS. 32,000 conferences
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takes up a lot of room, and some SysOps have a DOOR.SYS file that may
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end up to be over 100k. Some doors have been choking on the large
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DOOR.SYS, so I wrote this small utility to remove that line."
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* from FDOORSYS.DOC by Tim Rider
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RENEGADE BBS
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* If you are using BNU fossil driver and having problems with the
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doors, try using X00 v1.50+. Several Renegade systems have reported
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problems using BNU with the doors.
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* If you are getting out of memory errors. Go into the System Config
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section, [E] System Toggles, then [U] to turn the SWAP FILE 'ON'.
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TRIBBS v5.02+
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* Color ANSI checking will not work if you use TRIBBS.SYS drop file.
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Set the doors up using the PCBOARD.SYS drop file.
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* If you use DOOR.SYS, TriBBS reloads this file and will deduct twice
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the amount of time that was actually used. Try using another drop
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file, or copying the DOOR.SYS to a separate directory and then
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telling the door to look there for it.
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* NOTE: This only applies to doors where you adjust the user's time
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in the door such as Bordello, Studs, and Studette.
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Remote Access v2.0
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* Using DOOR.SYS may result in an OVERFLOW error -- try using a
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different caller drop file such as DORINFO1.DEF. This is currently
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being examined!
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Keyboard Timeouts
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* If you are operating on a 486 computer and getting a "keyboard
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timeout", you will need to set the following environmental variable
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in your AUTOEXEC.BAT.
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SET NO87=ON
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This will turn off your co-processor and allow the door to function
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properly.
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Overflow Errors
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* Overflows can occur if you are running under DESQview and your tick
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counts are set too low -- try raising the tick counts.
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* If you're running Wildcat! v3.9+ and are getting OVERFLOW errors,
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make sure NONE of your security level definitions have the MAXIMUM
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DAILY DOWNLOADS set to more than 32,000 -- anything over that will
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cause an OVERFLOW ERROR in ANY door using DOORFRAME.
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Garbled Information on Remote
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* If the door seems to operate fine on the BBS end but the remote
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cannot receive or receives garbled information, check and make sure
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you are passing the correct IRQ to the door (if you are running a
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non-standard IRQ).
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Graphic Cards (general)
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* ATI Graphics Ultra Pro card - do not use the ANSI.SYS driver that
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came with the card. Use the normal DOS ANSI.SYS for the screens
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to show correctly.
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* Trident SVGA Cards - You should have a utility disk with a file
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called TANSI.SYS, use this ansi driver instead of the standard
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ANSI.SYS.
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DESQview/X
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* Make sure you have the MATH COPROCESSOR flagged ON even if you don't
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have a math coprocessor.
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Lockups on certain COM PORTS
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* If you're running on a non-standard IRQ, be sure you are passing the
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IRQ to the command line or batch file! Example: LISA LISA.CFG /5
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Wildcat! 3.x
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* If you are running Studs!, Studette!, or Bordello! (from T&J Software)
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you must use the caller drop file DOOR.SYS to make sure the callers
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remaining time is passed back to Wildcat!
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* Wildcat! IM Version Setup using DigiFossil v1.3:
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All of our doors will run on the Wildcat! IM version using DigiFos
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v1.3. I have received TWO different setup routines concerning the
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IM version, here's an example:
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DF LOCK%WCNODEID% -OR- DF ON
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CD\DOORS\STUDS CD\DOORS\STUDS
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STUDS! STUDS!.CFG /FD STUDS! STUDS!.CFG
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CD\WC30 CD\WC30
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DF OFF DF OFF
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Comments on either setup would be greatly appreciated!
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Spitfire BBS's
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* If you're having trouble with the doors dropping carrier on exiting
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back to the BBS, switch to using DOOR.SYS instead of SFDOORS.DAT.
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This happens on some Spitfire configurations when using SFDOORS.DAT.
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Using DESQview
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* If you're running the doors under DV and you're getting ANSI
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character codes on the local monitor, be sure to load the file
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DVANSI.COM in the main batch file that starts your BBS!
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