BBS_door BBS_door

BBS door - Definition and Overview
Related Words: Adit, Admittance, Archway, Avenue, Blowhole, Bulkhead, Channel, Chute, Entry, Escape

A BBS door was a mechanism to execute and communicate with an external program, commonly a game on bulletin board systems (commonly referred to as Door games). The BBS software would start the external program, and the door system would pass data back and forth between the door program, the BBS, and the remote user. To supply the door program with the user's information (such as the user's alias and the amount of time they had spent online), the BBS software would create a drop file containing information for the program to read. Fossil and later Fossil32 were common door systems.

Popular door games included:

Example Usage of door
Lovelydice: And that's life! Deal with it! Wij gaan door met happy living! Begrijp me niet verkeerd, we zijn verre van perfect! Maar liefde in overvloed
WGallagher: Just to say, the December 17 Edinburgh twissup tweets have brought an old friend to my Twitter door: hello @LouiseMcKeag
LightBearer77: Had a wonderful time travelling to Singapore. 30 hours door to door. But what a wonderful flight it was. Thank you Universe!
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