Re: BBS Link

On Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 1:14:08 PM UTC-6, Kevin wrote:
> Hello !
> 
> Has anybody tried setting up BBS Link (http://bbslink.net/) with Wildcat! v6 and had 
> success ?
> 
> I can get the connection fine using cmd.exe, but when I try and launch the .bat from 
> Wildcat!'s door menu it farts back at me to the same screen.
> 
> Thanks !
> 
> -Kevin

Wildcat v5 and up sucks when it comes to doors. It wants everything ran from a batch file in the c:\wc6\batch directory. You can't launch anything but a .BAT from the door configuration. 

To answer your question, NO, I spent about 4-5 hours trying to get BBSlink to work on Wildcat! v8. I could run it locally form the command prompt fine, but when WC called it as a door, all hell breaks loose.

The only thing I can say is WC handles doors very poorly. I needed to run a door at login which would send me a text when someone logged on to the system. I then found out there is no login door like with other BBS packages like Serchlight or Synchronet. I have to create a small wcBASIC app and compile it, which would then call the program from a files called logon-hooks.txt which was play in the C:\WCAT\CONFIG\ directory. All the to just run a login door.

Let me know if you ever got BBSLink Doors to work on your system and how you done it.

Best,

Kent