Doors under WWiV

As promised, here is how to set up doors under WWIV for Linux. It took a lot of trial and error, and pouring over documents and howtos for other BBS packages, but I finally found the solution at Daydream BBS software support. I was going to provide an actual walk-through, but then I realized that I didn't deviate from those instructions. So, follow the directions there to a tee, and you'll have no issues at all. My external maintenance script is run via cron and uses pretty much the exact same setup, except I do not pass -u virtual to dosemu, as it will fail because that script does not run from a vty, and serial { virtual com 1 } assumes that you're running from a vty.

You could also write separate scripts instead of using the door_script that's provided, but that's not really needed except in cased like tedit (for TW), as it runs from the TW folder. So I just modified a copy door_script to hard-code the door name and folder. You could do this for every door if you wished, but I find it just as easy to use the single script.

If anyone needs any specific help, please ask.