Re: Thunder cat V3.30 door game
By: Digital Man to The Lizard Master on Wed Oct 16 2024 01:40 pm
> cvtdrsys modifies a door.sys file created by another program (e.g. a BBS
> program). *nix sysops could do the modifications with some creative awk and
> sed commands. Not sure how you would "build that into" a system. If the
> original program knew it needed different values in the door.sys file, it'd
> just write those values instead of whatever problematic value it was writing
> before - no need for "conversion" (or what I would call "modification")
> in-flight. I suppose a BBS program could allow every line/value of every
> supported drop file type to be configurable in some way, but that seems like
> pretty unnecessary complexity and flexibility.
Yeah, I was thinking back more in the day where there were some strange drop fil
es and I had some issues. Not sure why I didn't even think to write something li
ke that, usually I'd just give up on whatever door was giving me issues.
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