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    From digimaus@618:618/1 to All on Sat Jan 4 15:39:07 2025
    Hi everyone,

    I have the original Yankee Trader set up on my board but it's doing
    something odd. The door is loading and running correctly but when it stops
    to ask you your name, the program just abends. No error message or any notification.

    I'll turn on the local screen it provides and run dosemu to the console (no virtual comport" to see if there's anything there.

    The door does run correctly locally when you use "LOCAL.EXE".

    I'll do more research but just wonedering if anyone else has had a similar issue.

    -- Sean

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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to DIGIMAUS on Sun Jan 5 10:55:00 2025
    I have the original Yankee Trader set up on my board but it's doing
    something odd. The door is loading and running correctly but when it stops to ask you your name, the program just abends. No error message or any notification.

    I am running the unmodified versions of 3.3 and 3.6 here, with at least one regular user, and have had no reports of issues.

    I am changing to the directory that the program resides in, and running this command line:

    YT c:\path\to\DORINFO#.DEF

    Mike


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  • From digimaus@618:618/1 to Mike Powell on Sun Jan 5 16:38:03 2025
    Mike Powell wrote to DIGIMAUS <=-

    I am changing to the directory that the program resides in, and running this command line:

    YT c:\path\to\DORINFO#.DEF

    I'm doing that as well.

    The batch file I use:

    @echo off
    c:
    cd \doors\yt
    c:\x00\x00 e b,n,57600
    yt c:\doors\node%1\dorinfo1.def
    cd \doors\node%1
    del door*.sys
    del *.def

    As I said before, door loads just fine but dumps at that line. Tonight I'll set thngs up to debug. DOSemu can be kinda weird at times about stuff.

    -- Sean


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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to DIGIMAUS on Mon Jan 6 08:40:00 2025
    YT c:\path\to\DORINFO#.DEF

    I'm doing that as well.

    The batch file I use:

    @echo off
    c:
    cd \doors\yt
    c:\x00\x00 e b,n,57600
    yt c:\doors\node%1\dorinfo1.def
    cd \doors\node%1
    del door*.sys
    del *.def

    As I said before, door loads just fine but dumps at that line. Tonight I'll set thngs up to debug. DOSemu can be kinda weird at times about stuff.

    I don't appear to be loading anything else special in the BAT that calls the door or the one that calls GT Power that I could point to and suggest.

    I think there are a few differences between our configurations.

    (1) I am currently running under DOSBOX-X, but the setup for YT was the
    same from when I was running under dosemu.
    (2) I am calling YT from the old DOS GT Power BBS (which is running in the
    same DOSBOX-X session) and not trying to call it from a different OS.
    (3) I am not loading a fossil.

    So there could be something special that needs doing or some other quirk
    that I am not aware of.

    Mike

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  • From digimaus@618:618/1 to Mike Powell on Tue Jan 7 17:33:30 2025
    Mike Powell wrote to DIGIMAUS <=-

    So there could be something special that needs doing or some other
    quirk that I am not aware of.

    There's some TSRs included with YT that I may load up. The odd thing is
    that the program starts then just dies. Not going to spend a lot of time on
    it though.

    -- Sean

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