Re: DSZPORT - DOOR FILE TRANS
  By: Daryl Stout to ALL on Sat Mar 02 2019 09:18 pm

 >   I had mentioned this before, but the suggestions tried haven't worked.
 >
 >   One of the doors on the BBS is a door called RIPDOOR, originally done
 > by former GT Power BBS Sysop Bill Watts (unfortunately, I don't think
 > it's registerable anymore, but I do have a registered copy of it).
 >
 >   The door allows users to download RIP Graphics programs (such as
 > RipTerm and RipTel) and RIP Icon packages for various doorgames. It
 > works with or without a fossil driver, and supports several different
 > dropfiles.
 >
 >   Supposedly, all the comport routines are handled within the door
 > itself, so no comport redirection is needed. The thing that does NOT
 > work in the door is the actual file transfer. The documentation states
 > that you must set the DSZ environemt variable for proper
 > operation...noting that "SET DSZPORT=x" (where x is the number of the
 > comport you're operating on...and to be sure that DSZ.EXE or DSZ.COM is
 > in the DOS path. I had put it in the door directory itself, thinking
 > that would work...but I guess I need to put it into the path of the
 > AUTOEXEC.NT file (I run Windows 7 32-bit).
 >
 >   Even though RIP graphics are rare on a BBS, some systems have the
 > screens for it, and some doors have RIP screens as well.
 >
 >   Any help would be appreciated.

You'll likely have better luck using fdsz.exe. Just copy/rename to dsz.exe and
try that.

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