Board:   [fsxNet] BBS Software Development/Support
Subject: New (proposed) door drop file format, for review and discussion
From:    Digital Man(21:1/183)
Date:    Thu Oct 01, 2026 12:46

  Re: New (proposed) door drop file format, for review and discussion
  By: Digital Man to All on Wed Sep 30 2026 01:59 am

 > https://github.com/SynchronetBBS/sbbs/blob/master/docs/dropfile_ini.md
 >
 > Not implemented anywhere yet (not even in Synchronet), purposely, so as to
 > give the community time (mainly door and host/BBS/server authors) time to
 > give feedback. I do plan to implement support for this format (once it's
 > finalized) in Synchronet BBS software and some of my new doors.

The proposal, now at rev 0.7 (not a standard, nobody should be implementing this yet except for experimental purposes) is now at:
https://github.com/SynchronetBBS/sbbs/blob/master/docs/doordrop_ini.md and
https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/blob/master/docs/doordrop_ini.md
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