Subj : Re: Inline Tutorials / Doorway
To   : Michael Preslar
From : Scott Adams
Date : Thu Nov 10 2005 07:54 pm

 -=> Quoting Michael Preslar to All <=-

 MP> @MSGID: 52.pascal@1:275/112 07bfc9a7
 MP> Hey folks..

 MP> I recently learned that the Doorway author was willing to part with
 MP> his source code, and after a few emails, I am now the new owner of
 MP> Doorway and all rights to it.

 MP> So here I am, going through the code.. I knew itd do some stuff that I
 MP> had never seen before but didnt expect what I got :D

 MP> Simply put, the majority of the real functionality is done in either
 MP> assembly or inline code.

 MP> The assembly: I believe I can find tutorials for that.

 MP> The inline code: I haven't found any tutorials about that..

 MP> Which leads me to ask: Does anyone know of a good tutorial about
 MP> inline coding?

        Hrmm...inline tends to be alot of asm in itself.  In essence
        its just direct machine code translations that can be translated
        into ASM as well.  Its a way TP or BP can interface with the
        bottom level (ASM level) of coding.  When I did a tutorial
        teaching thing on IRC I typed up ASM stuff back ...gosh?...
        a decade ago?  Unsure where i put it.  Would have ot look.
        But i believe I spoke of inline then.  I personally never
        used it more than moving or modifying a small register
        data set.  You tried a basic websearch for tutorials?

        Swag has 3 inline keyword searched files.  Each have comments
        on what they are doing.  Might learn from them and see
        a pattern of what is going on.

        The old ASYNC routines also may have documentation on inline
        stuff as well.

        Course with doorway we must ask ourselves is it worth it?
        I used doorway back in the day.  But haven't in a decade.
        I gotta wonder who still does.  With windows systems telnet
        is the way to go there plus some back doors.  I gotta wonder
        how hard you'll have doing doorway with windows.  Might
        be issues there never thought of.  Good luck!

        I recently saw some classes in delphi that does essentially
        what doorway does the other day.  In delphi doorway would
        likely be a few lines of code.  My how far have we gotten....


        Scott Adams aka Longshot


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