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Message   Andrew Leary    digimaus   Cheepware BBS Doors   September 10, 2026
 1:15 PM *  

Hello digimaus!

31 Aug 26 12:29, you wrote to all:

 di> I have been working on porting my DOS Turbo Pascal-based BBS doors to
 di> Tcl--it works surprisingly well for BBS doors--and have nearly
 di> finished getting things into a beta state.  They're working here just
 di> fine, but I'm looking for other
 di> systems to test my "The Magic Oracle" door.

 di> The only main requirements are that your system must be running Tcl
 di> 8.5 or higher and ANSI is supported on the remote caller's end.  I've
 di> designed the door(s) to be easy to set up and use.  A Windows version
 di> is in the works as a standalone EXE thanks to Freewrap though I'd
 di> imagine a Windows-based BBS with ActiveState Tcl installed with the
 di> ability to run stdio programs (in this case, via tclsh) should also be
 di> able to run the doors similar to *NIX.

 di> If you're running a *NIX-based BBS and would like to try it, please
 di> let me know.  The docs are being fully fleshed out but there's enough
 di> there to figure it out. <G>

 di> I will be releasing my doors under the MIT License.

Send a copy over here; I'll see if I can break it.

Andrew

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