Subj : Re: food fite
To   : AKAcastor
From : fusion
Date : Tue Jun 25 2024 03:54 pm

On 24 Jun 2024, AKAcastor said the following...
 
 AK>  Ex> I hate having to have a mystic setup to rlogon to 
 AK>  Ex> so I can run MRC just to spawn off to run it from my board.
 AK> 
 AK> I'm surprised nobody has written a stand-alone MRC door.  A DOS MRC door
 AK> is on my own to-do list, but a bit low on the list at the moment.  Too
 AK> many doors to crack. ;)

OS/2 at least has a network stack exposed directly to the VDMs by default..
but the library and all the stuff to link it together is hard to find. I'm not sure if Windows does (perhaps Windows NT did, as part of the early OS/2 support.. which is long gone after Windows 2000 iirc). Maybe Novell made something to support their old DOS network stack in a Windows VDM?

I know you could use mTCP or something like that, but afaik that would only work on a VM, DosBox type program or a real machine. No Windows users. (and most "DOS" BBSes are just running on Windows. A DOS door implemented this way wouldn't be useful to Exodus for example)

Maybe if the DOS door used named pipes to talk to a proper 32-bit locally-run server that then talked to the MRC server?

I guess what I'm getting at is a DOS network door would see quite limited use and might be difficult to implement/run for the user.

Sorry for blabbing. I just find this stuff interesting.. sort of brain storming stuff. I wrote a Windows MRC door early on but the protocol was so bad at that time I converted it probably 80% of the way to an (unrelased) irc door.. I haven't looked recently but originally any sysop could read all the private messages from every BBS lol

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