Subj : Re: DOS/Win32 Program wan
To   : Mike Powell
From : Shurato
Date : Fri Nov 14 2025 11:29:00


* In a message originally to SHURATO, Mike Powell said:

 > >  > Something like this has to be written for a specific BBS and one that
 > >  > can support mods like this.  You can't just write this that works
 > with
 > >  > all systems like a BBS door can.

 > > Why not?  It would just need to be passed a directory and resd the
 > files.bbs
 > > from that directory.  Can't all bbs's do that?

 > Many older DOS BBSes could, but I think others keep a lot of the file info
 > in databases that may or may not be of a standard type -- i.e. they don't
 > use the old-fashioned "files.bbs in separate directories" way of keeping
 > track of their file bases.

 > For example...

 > While SBBS keeps each file base in a separate directory, IIRC the actual
 > file info you used to find in the files.bbs files is now all kept in a
 > database.

 > Mike

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I thought mos

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