From Sean Dennis@618:618/1 to All on Thu Mar 16 22:29:04 2023
* Originally in CHWARE
* Crossposted in MIN_BBS
Hello All,
I have been very busy as of late but have stolen some time late-night before bed to work on Cheepware. What I've been doing:
- Rewrote the string centering code. It was a little strange so I rewrote it completely, adding in missing support to correctly center strings using either pipe- or LORD-style color codes.
- Moving some custom routines out of my old doorkit code and putting it into MannDoor directly.
- Optimizing a lot of code here and there.
- Please note that MannDoor is not fully backwards-compatible with older versions. I may eventually rename the doorkit amd make it my own with all of this work I'm putting into it.
- I am trying to hunt down a harmless but annoying bug in MannDoor that only affects DOS doors. I've contacted MannDoor's original author but after a month, I've received no reply.
- Started working on documentation. The worst part of programming. <G>
Once I get the code tweaked a bit more, I'll release my new version of MannDoor.
-- Sean
--- GoldED+/BSD 1.1.5-b20220504
* Origin: Outpost BBS * Johnson City, TN (618:618/1)
From Sean Dennis@618:618/1 to All on Thu Jun 1 12:30:06 2023
Hi everyone,
I've abandoned the cross-platform porting of my doors. Issues with getting help with compiling for different platforms and other issues have made me decide to stop that but I am still planning on releasing the code to my
doors. It's been slow-going since health issues have made typing very difficult for me but I am working on improving my situation.
I have been working on the doors. A few things I've done:
- added the ability for the door to automatically run in local mode on a
BBS if it sees that the baud rate and port number are both set to zero;
- fixed a longstanding issue with file sharing when running multinode;
- cleaned up the code in general to try to make it more efficient;
- changed the documentation from a single monolithic document to four
smaller documents (this makes it much easier for me to modify a single
document instead of six huge documents);
- updated the documents with my current contact and support information.
I am hoping to issue new releases of all of my doors within the next few
weeks.
I apologize for being so slow with updates but life takes me on new
adventures whether I want to or not. <G>
-- Sean
... COBOL programs are an exercise in artificial inelegance.
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