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- New Things and Fixes by Steven R. Lorenz
-
- 1. IRQs 0-15 now supported. Comports 1-4 supported. Required change in
- ASYNC.asm (called SLASYNC here).
- Selectable Port Addresses added to .CTL file so sysop doesn't have to
- have a bunch of if 'nodex == 1 goto xxx' in his doorx.bat.
- 2. DV aware routines. Use examples as guide to installation.
- a. DV_Pause added to sreadch to make DV work more smoothly.
- 3. High speed BBS modem vs lowspeed user modem problem of lost characters -
- (basically RTS/CTS checking) - Fixed
- 4. Carrierdetect during sendchar. Fixed
- 5. Rip detect. Or WC3.9 or PCBoard15.0 dropfile driven.
- 6. Fast and correct ansi color routines.
- 7. PCBoard 15 support
- 8. Rip Detect or found on WC3.9+ or PCB15 dropfiles
- 9. TriBBS dropfile support (untested)
- 10.RBBS vs Super BBS Dorinfo types supported
- 11.Lock baud and comm baud rates to 115,200
- 12.Windows,WindowsNT,OS/2,DOS 5.0+ time slice releasing.
- A Dos,Win, DV pause is taken after so many read cycles in read loop
- 13.fossil support to 38,400 using normal fossil calls.
- fossil support to 115,200 using X00 extended fossil calls.
- Use XFossil for any fossils (X00 or BNU) over 38,400. This option does
- not open or close the fossil but meerly writes to it the way it is.
-
- Versions:
- 6.1
- Added mixture of tasker pause and loop cycles in Ripdetect and read char
- to give a smoother response.
- 6.2
- Missed Done Routine in 6.1 - now doesn't close if local or X00extOK
- but buffered flag is set to true.
- There was a file being written to when door timed out. Some OS2 systems
- complained of endless pages being written to their disk. I'm taking this
- out this version. So if you have a use for it save it and put it back in.
- 6.3
- Wrong-O I guess a lot of you are using this file so I'm putting it back in.
- Added /C to specify comport on command line. Dropfile comport number will
- override this option.
-
- The Following might be added to your sysop.doc file:
-
- ....parameters may be used.
-
- "/E" - Expanded Memory Specification If your machine has over one
- megabyte of memory, then you may have some available. DDPLUS can
- utilize EMS to improve game performance and reduce conventional
- memory requirements.
- This command will tell DDPLUS.exe to use EMS memory to hold its
- overlay buffer. Otherwise disc area may be used to hold this buffer.
- This needs a memory manager and when enabled and is compatible with
- DESQview.
-
- "/L" This tells DDPLUS.EXE to load up in LOCAL mode.
- This is good for testing or when a sysop just wants to "try out" the
- door without messing with his BBS setup. The "/L" mode will ask the
- user for his name and run the door in local mode.
-
- "/Bxxxxx" This tells DDPLUS.EXE to lock its baud rate at
- xxxxx. In order to get the most efficiency out of a high speed
- error correcting modem (9600 baud or above), you may lock the baud
- rate to a speed higher than what the caller is actually using.
- By locking the baud to say 38,400, the modem can compress text data
- that is being sent and achieve a baud rate much higher than the
- actual transmission rate.
- This will lock the baud rate at the same value for all nodes that
- use this command line. If you perfer a more selective way to lock
- baud use 'LOCKBAUD' command in the DDPLUS.CTL file.
-
- "/Cx" (where x is 1..4) This specifies a comport number.
- Some bbs software does not create door information files (dropfiles)
- that contain the comport number. If your bbs does have a comport
- listed in the dropfile then there is no need for this parameter.
- The default is comport 0, local mode.
-
- "/Nx" (where x is 1..9) This specifies a "node number".
- Some bbs software support multinode environments in which you must
- know the node number of the drop file to use. For example, RBBS-PC
- uses DORINFOx.DEF. If you specified "/N2" then DDPLUS.EXE would
- use DORINFO2.DEF.
-
- "/Pyyy" This specifies the path to the drop files.
- For example, "/PC:\WC30\WCWORK\NODE1" would tell DDPLUS.EXE to
- look for the drop file in C:\WC30\WCWORK\NODE1. If this is left out
- the program assumes the drop file is local.
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