Hi everyone,

With the BBS software change, I've had a renewed interest in Cheepware.
My doors now have "auto-local" capability. This means if you type its
name in a command shell, the door will start in local mode. If you are
logged in locally to your BBS and run the door, the door will start in
local mode.

This was an "accidental feature" as I was doing some code optimization
and the idea came to me to do this. <G>

This works by checking if there is a carrier fron the FOSSIL driver and
whether or not there are parameters specified on the calling command
line. If there is carrier, the door will jump down to looking for a
dropfile and running normally. If there are unknown parameters, it will display its command line help.

The "/L" parameter is still supported if you wish to use it.

You can use "/?" ot "/H" for command line help. You can also use "/" or
"-" to signify a command line parameter.

I am also working on putting in error logging into my doors, mainly for FOSSIL/door initialization errors from FKFOSSIL (the door kit I use)
and for other possible errors. Since I am sticking to DOS-only for now,
I'm writing a more powerful error handler. This is not only to help the
sysop but to help me debug issues sysops might have.

I'm still planning on making my doors open source but I'm waiting until
I finish this code update.

So Cheepware is still alive.

-- Sean

... Broken barometer for sale. No pressure.
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