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    From Cozmo@21:3/135 to All on Sun Aug 8 15:35:36 2021
    I'm having a problem when I exit a door game it will disconnect me from The BBS. What could cause this?

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/04/08 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Lunatics Unleashed BBS (21:3/135)
  • From Zip@21:1/202 to Cozmo on Mon Aug 9 08:36:55 2021
    Hello Cozmo!

    On 08 Aug 2021, Cozmo said the following...
    I'm having a problem when I exit a door game it will disconnect me from The BBS. What could cause this?

    Could it be that door usage doesn't count against the inactivity timeout (General Settings --> Inactivity) in Mystic (which is usually set rather low if I recall correctly)?

    You might want to double-check with g00r00 in the MYSTIC FidoNet echo, though.

    I know I raised it to 7200 seconds once upon a time when I had problems with disconnects after downloads (but I believe that it nowadays doesn't count downloads as inactivity any longer).

    Best regards
    Zip

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/08/08 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (21:1/202)
  • From Cozmo@21:3/135 to Zip on Tue Aug 10 07:57:18 2021
    Figured out what the problem was. Wall E. Weasel figured it out for me. The guy is a master at tempermental doors. On exit the door was saving a bulletin file in a .DAT file that was crashing the NTVDM when it finished writing those files. I would have never figured that out on my own.

    The more I play around with installing doors the more I realize that they can do some strange things that are a bit above my knowledge.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/04/08 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Lunatics Unleashed BBS (21:3/135)
  • From Zip@21:1/202 to Cozmo on Tue Aug 10 18:23:49 2021
    Hello Cozmo!

    On 10 Aug 2021, Cozmo said the following...
    Figured out what the problem was. Wall E. Weasel figured it out for me. The guy is a master at tempermental doors. On exit the door was saving a bulletin file in a .DAT file that was crashing the NTVDM when it
    finished writing those files. I would have never figured that out on my own.

    That one was... unexpected. :-O

    The more I play around with installing doors the more I realize that
    they can do some strange things that are a bit above my knowledge.

    And I haven't even started yet. Perhaps I should wait a little more... :)

    Best regards
    Zip

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/08/08 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (21:1/202)