Question for everyone! I did a search before asking this but nothing I found covered it. I used to run a WWIV board, now I am setting up a SBBS board (Synchronet) because of the built in telnet options. I am trying to get the Doors to work, but for some weird Butt reason when I open a door a new window opens. I want to run the BBS because I want to offer game other than TW2002, like LoRd, Bre, Usurper, Exitilus etc. Can anyone help me with this problem? Thank you for any help you can offer.

quote:Originally posted by KingD

Question for everyone! I did a search before asking this but nothing I found covered it. I used to run a WWIV board, now I am setting up a SBBS board (Synchronet) because of the built in telnet options. I am trying to get the Doors to work, but for some weird Butt reason when I open a door a new window opens. I want to run the BBS because I want to offer game other than TW2002, like LoRd, Bre, Usurper, Exitilus etc. Can anyone help me with this problem? Thank you for any help you can offer.


Are you talking about a DOS window opens up in Windows, called dosextern? I run a Synchronet BBS as well so I'm just trying to clue in to which window exactly you are refering to.

You can message me here or to outpost-4@mk-tek.com

Yes the window says EXEC/DOSXTRN on it! When I pull up the window I can login to the game but shouldn't it open in the window I already have open?? I've logged into Synchronet BBs's before and never had this problem. Can you help me fix this problem?

quote:Originally posted by KingD

Yes the window says EXEC/DOSXTRN on it! When I pull up the window I can login to the game but shouldn't it open in the window I already have open?? I've logged into Synchronet BBs's before and never had this problem. Can you help me fix this problem?


It's funny. I ran SBBS for Dos and Remote Acces for many years. Then came Synchronet. The first time the dos/xtrn box opened, I kept closing it. I had no idea I was closing users out of the game.

The doors do run in two windows. One is your telnet client, the other is the dosxtrn command.

In the /exec directory there should be a dosxtrn.pif file. Edit it's properties to run minimized and close on exit is checked. I've never seen it not there, but I learned to make sure it ran minimized and auto closed when done, or I'd end up with 20 of them on my task bar.


So when a user logs into your BBS and goes to a door and enters the game, you will see the dosxtrn window minimized on your task bar. When they leave, it closes.

Does that help?

Well the big problem is this. With TW2002(im running v3.09 not twgs) the game opens in a seperate window but not in the telnet window (when I login) when a user logs in the game won't do anything. And NONE of the other games that I have tried to setup will run at all...Bre, Lord, Exitilus, Usurper, Planets all those type of games. I used to run a WWIV board years ago, and never had this kind of trouble getting the online games to work. When I decided to open another BBS I chose Synchronet because its soooo easy to setup for Telnet!!! And I know everyone will say I should run TWGS, but I already have v3.09 and wanted a Classic style game. If the board works out well and I enjoy running a BBS again then I will think about TWGS! Well any help you can provide would be great, thank you!

ask naz. i think he runs a synchronet bbs and eh does offer bre, falcons eye and of that sort of game.

Nighthawk bbs

naz runs his through linux though, I think. I imagine the setup would be different.