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    From Eastside75@1:103/705 to All on Sat Jul 26 18:28:56 2025
    Just installed the global war door game using the recommended setting on the wiki. The game will not display on the remote client. A popup window appears on the board machine with the welcome and a nag to download the gw client. it them closes when enter is pressed on the server side and the remote use is kicked back to the menu after hanging.

    I have the cfg file line noted with a fossil.

    The command line is war /d %f
    drop file is door.sys and resides in node file.

    I can't think of anything that would cause it to pop up the local window.

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  • From Gamgee@1:103/705 to Eastside75 on Sat Jul 26 22:06:50 2025
    Eastside75 wrote to All <=-

    Just installed the global war door game using the recommended setting
    on the wiki. The game will not display on the remote client. A popup window appears on the board machine with the welcome and a nag to
    download the gw client. it them closes when enter is pressed on the
    server side and the remote use is kicked back to the menu after
    hanging.

    I have the cfg file line noted with a fossil.

    Mine says "FOSSIL or UART"

    The command line is war /d %f

    Mine is: WAR.BAT and the contents of WAR.BAT are:
    @ECHO OFF
    cd /sbbs/xtrn/gwar
    WAR.EXE /d D:\DOOR.SYS

    drop file is door.sys and resides in node file.

    Mine is: DOOR.SYS (52 lines) and is in the node dir.

    This is on Linux and works fine.

    Hope this helps.



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  • From Eastside75@1:103/705 to Gamgee on Sat Jul 26 23:36:04 2025
    Re: Re: global war door game
    By: Gamgee to Eastside75 on Sat Jul 26 2025 10:06 pm

    Mine is: WAR.BAT and the contents of WAR.BAT are:
    @ECHO OFF
    cd /sbbs/xtrn/gwar
    WAR.EXE /d D:\DOOR.SYS


    it's like magic. I ran it from the command line first and that work beautifully.

    Thanks for the help!

    trying to split the difference between out of date guides can lead to a wormhole. I should have tried using raw file paths and not shortcuts.

    Appreciate you!

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  • From Gamgee@1:103/705 to Eastside75 on Sun Jul 27 08:01:54 2025
    Eastside75 wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Re: Re: global war door game
    By: Gamgee to Eastside75 on Sat Jul 26 2025 10:06 pm

    Mine is: WAR.BAT and the contents of WAR.BAT are:
    @ECHO OFF
    cd /sbbs/xtrn/gwar
    WAR.EXE /d D:\DOOR.SYS


    it's like magic. I ran it from the command line first and that work beautifully.

    Thanks for the help!

    Cool, you're welcome.

    trying to split the difference between out of date guides can lead to a wormhole. I should have tried using raw file paths and not shortcuts.

    Trust me, I'm quite familiar with wormholes. And rabbit-holes. :-)
    Yes, it is often better to use absolute paths with this kind of thing.

    Appreciate you!

    No problem.



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  • From Mike Powell@1:103/705 to GAMGEE on Sun Jul 27 09:01:45 2025
    cd /sbbs/xtrn/gwar

    GWAR rules! Huh-huh-huh-huh. :D


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  • From Eastside75@1:103/705 to Mike Powell on Sun Jul 27 19:33:05 2025
    Re: Re: global war door game
    By: Mike Powell to GAMGEE on Sun Jul 27 2025 09:01 am


    GWAR rules! Huh-huh-huh-huh. :D


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    Perfect tagline for the quote!

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