From: vikki@precipice.chi.il.us (Victoria Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Editors for 1.64
Summary: Not a clue - yet...
Keywords: 1.65 GEDIT DOORS
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 19:28:04 CDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Welch Research, McHenry IL, USA

pdivine@unixg.ubc.ca (Patrick Devine) writes:

> We just wrote a system that makes a DORINFO1.DEF file which most online games
> require to play.  Coupled with Door Master, I would imagine you could use
> Waffle and the program to run any online game.
>
> There is only one problem though, Waffle doesn't free up enough memory when
> shelling, because it doesn't swap memory to disk.  Does anyone know if there
> a program, or a patch that will rectify this problem?  It seems pretty silly
> waffle still needs to be resident while using a different program.

I have been running into problems with DOOR files, there seems to be a
fair number of different types and everything I have seen so far
appears to assume that everyone knows the formats by heart (I don't).

I have been messing about with METRO-MEZZANINE (select one of n BBSs)
This thing is VERY poorly documented and it is not clear at all what
he wants to see in terms of a DOOR.SYS (etc, etc, etc) file.  It is
also crippleware and the docs don't make sense in places because of
it.  This is all I have seen for this purpose, if anyone knows
of anything else along these lines available, I would love to hear it.

I am also still working with GEDIT.  I really like that little editor,
but I would rather not have to use RA to have it ;-).  So far I have
had no real luck.  On the off chance that it might save you some work,
here is an extract from my _editors file (lines bent to fit):

x0   /access=9 /screen /slash /command="C:\waffle\bin\gedit %i"
      /then="echo %|"
x1   /access=9 /screen /slash /shell /command="C:\waffle\bin\gedit
      c:\waffle\usr\vikki\_edit A1 R24" /then="echo %|"
x2   /access=9 /screen /slash /shell /command="c:\usr\bin\sh.exe
      C:\waffle\bin\ge.sh c:\waffle\usr\vikki\_edit"
x3   /access=9 /screen /slash /shell /command="C:\waffle\bin\gedit %i"
      /then="echo %|"

NONE of these worked at all, although if you take the /command="~"
stuff out and run it from the command line (messydos or TT/PolyShell)
and it works fine.  I started to think that GEDIT was having some kind
of problem with the %i stuff, but it doesn't appear so (?).  Whateverr
is going on (and it looks like it could be several things) I do get a
return code from GEDIT of 1 (thats it unless you run it outside of
waffle and then you get a 0 as it works).  I also pulled the
EXITINFO.BBS file over from RA and it doesn't make any difference
either.  The last time I tried this I was getting: "ERROR, unable to
initialize fossil driver".  Very strange.

Another interesting point is if I specify a UFN for a batch file, it
blows out on an error 19.  If I just specify the root name, it seems
to be fine.

It has been an exciting day.  This and the FAX stuff are all I didn't
get done since last night after installing 1.65b10.  Not too shabby!
It installed quite easily.  Actually I had waffle up by 0400 this
morning.  Messing around with all this (and a few hours snooozzzz)
took the rest of the time.  Tom has done a good job with this.

Hope that this helps.  I am about to fire off some mail to the author
of GEDIT and see if maybe he has a clue because I certainly don't.

Take care, Vikki.



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