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  • DOORS VS SCRIPTS

    From Warp 4@21:2/136 to Xqtr on Sun Aug 5 00:00:00 2018
    In a message dated 02-02-18, Xqtr said to Gryphon:

    XQTR>Its not that i underestimate MPL or other scripting languages. The matter XQTR>is that scripting languages are for specific systems. BBS software from XQTR>the beginning of the BBS era, has vanished or not being used any more. At XQTR>the other hand we still can use DOOR games that was written as programs XQTR>and compiled unde DOS! And this... because of exactly that! There were XQTR>programs NOT scripts. When a BBS Software is disappearing, all scripts XQTR>written for that, will also vanish.

    Then you get folks like me who run software like Wildcat! 4.x and have wccNOSY to decompile, update/fix and recompile existing scripts that are out there now :) ___
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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Warp 4 on Sun Aug 5 18:28:00 2018
    On 08-05-18 00:00, Warp 4 wrote to Xqtr <=-

    In a message dated 02-02-18, Xqtr said to Gryphon:

    XQTR>Its not that i underestimate MPL or other scripting languages. The matter
    XQTR>is that scripting languages are for specific systems. BBS software from
    XQTR>the beginning of the BBS era, has vanished or not being used any more. At
    XQTR>the other hand we still can use DOOR games that was written as programs
    XQTR>and compiled unde DOS! And this... because of exactly that! There were
    XQTR>programs NOT scripts. When a BBS Software is disappearing, all scripts
    XQTR>written for that, will also vanish.

    Then you get folks like me who run software like Wildcat! 4.x and have wccNOSY to decompile, update/fix and recompile existing scripts that
    are out there now :) ___

    It cuts both ways. In today's heterogenous environment, doors have their disadvantage, namely being compiled for a specific OS. And DOS software is not easy for some of us to run.


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  • From xqtr@21:1/111 to Warp 4 on Mon Aug 6 05:57:36 2018
    Then you get folks like me who run software like Wildcat! 4.x and have wccNOSY to decompile, update/fix and recompile existing scripts that are out there now :) ___

    yeap... but you are a species that faces extinction... :)

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  • From Warp 4@21:2/136 to Xqtr on Tue Aug 7 14:12:30 2018
    In a message dated 08-05-18, Xqtr said to Warp 4:

    Then you get folks like me who run software like Wildcat! 4.x and have wccNOSY to decompile, update/fix and recompile existing scripts that are out there now :) ___

    XQTR>yeap... but you are a species that faces extinction... :)

    Yeah, but we are still around though :)
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