Subj : Re: Door problems
To   : Cisop
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Sep 25 2005 12:25 pm

  Re: Re: Door problems
  By: Cisop to Digital Man on Sun Sep 25 2005 01:03 pm

 > I have found a way to make both doors run. I don't know why but hopefully yo
 > can shed a little light on it.
 > I wanted to see if I could stop the door with a window open so I ran it from
 > batch file like this.
 > 
 > set SBBSNODE=C:\sbbs\node1\
 > dmud32
 > pause
 > 
 > The door worked fine. I wrote a similiar batch file for Trivia and it also
 > worked fine.
 > 
 > I checked to see what environmental was set for SBBSNODE in windows. The
 > variable being set was c:\sbbs\node1. Note that here is no trailing backslas
 > 
 > I have no idea why this problem appeared all of a sudden with the sbbs
 > upgrade. I don't know what sets the SBBSNODE variable.
 > 
 > Anyway we are up and runnig again!!!

Thank you very much, you found bug!

You should *not* be setting the SBBSNODE environment variable in Windows. You
shouldn't need to.

Additionally, if you set it (to "C:\SBBS\NODE1\" for example), your doors will
only work for node 1.

Good find!

I'll work on a fix for the next release (so the BBS will over-ride any user-set
values for environment variables), but in the mean-time, just remove that
variable fro your Windows environment variable list. You can leave the SBBSCTRL
env var if you wish.

                                                  digital man

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