https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/8afe199205d8d5a0e49866e3
Added Files:
docs/dropfile_ini.md
Log Message:
docs: add DROPFILE.INI draft specification

A draft of a new door drop file: named KEY=value lines in INI sections, readable by a DOS door in a dozen lines of C, Turbo Pascal or QBasic and
by the Win32 and Python INI APIs. It carries what doors commonly read
from DOOR.SYS, DOOR32.SYS and DORINFO1.DEF, plus user preferences (sound
muted, screen pause, mouse hot-spots) and detected terminal capabilities (Sixel, JPEG XL, CTerm features, kitty and evdev key reports, color
depth), so a door needs no other drop file and no terminal probing of its
own.

The draft also specifies what the older formats leave unsaid: how the
path reaches the door (DROPFILE_INI or the command line), per-node file placement, the rules for an inherited socket or serial handle (blocking
mode, socket options, no shutdown()), text encoding, and vendor-prefixed extension keys.

Non-normative notes describe how Synchronet would write the file,
including X_SBBS_* keys for doors that use MODUSER.DAT, and list the
Synchronet work needed first. Open questions and a list of reviewers
close the document.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/7022cd5556eef105dd30b836
Modified Files:
docs/dropfile_ini.md
Log Message:
docs: DROPFILE.INI draft 0.2

Changes since draft 0.1 (8afe199205, schools-20-cars, 2026-09-25):

- The file may be written by a BBS or any other system that runs doors,
so the spec now calls the writer the "host", defined once in the
introduction.
- The [bbs] section is now [system], with its keys renamed to match:
SYS_SOFTWARE, SYS_NAME, SYS_OP, SYS_NODE_NUM, SYS_NODE_COUNT,
SYS_QWKID, SYS_VENDOR and SYS_VERSION. SYS_NODE_NUM and
SYS_NODE_COUNT replace the one-letter-apart BBS_NODE and BBS_NODES,
and SYS_QWKID says plainly what the ID is.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/e7a825704ef5329c7ef84087
Modified Files:
docs/dropfile_ini.md
Log Message:
docs: DROPFILE.INI draft 0.3

Changes since draft 0.2 (7022cd5556, suppliers-28-info, 2026-09-26):

- New host keys in [system]: SYS_HOSTNAME (public Internet host name),
SYS_FTN_ADDR (primary FidoNet address, for inter-BBS games),
SYS_LOCATION, SYS_OP_AVAILABLE (whether the sysop can be paged) and
SYS_DATE_FORMAT (mdy, dmy or ymd). SYS_OP now allows any name the
sysop is configured with, not only an alias.
- New user keys in [user]: USER_EMAIL (the user's address on the host),
USER_NETMAIL (the user's forwarding address, Internet or FidoNet) and
USER_PROTOCOL (how the caller connected: telnet, rlogin, ssh, raw,
websocket or serial). USER_ROLE gains guest, so doors can avoid
saving progress for a shared account. USER_HANDLE may be an amateur
radio call sign.
- TERM_BACKSPACE (8 or 127, the byte the Backspace key sends) replaces
TERM_SWAP_DELETE, which door authors had to decode.
- Phenom Dropfile, a JSON drop file for Mystic BBS, is cited as related
prior art, and its author added to the reviewers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/ae6931740a8469bf72584107
Modified Files:
docs/dropfile_ini.md
Log Message:
docs: DROPFILE.INI draft 0.4

Changes since draft 0.3 (e7a825704e, mode-3-declare, 2026-09-26):

- The bool type is now 0 (false) or any other unsigned decimal (true),
so a key can later define values above 1 that mean true plus more
detail, the way TERM_RIP grew from a yes/no into a version. Consumers
test nonzero and must not compare against 1; producers write only 0
or 1 unless the key defines another value; a value above 1 must be a
refinement of true, so a door that treats it as 1 still works.
- TERM_MOUSE is the first key to use that: 1 = cell reports, 2 = pixel
reports too (SGR-Pixels, mode 1016). The termgfx doors latch pixel
mode today only from a DECRPM reply some terminals never send, or
from a report that lands past the text grid; 2 closes that window.
Source adds DECRQM requests for modes 1006 and 1016 on non-CTerm
terminals, which report a mode without changing it.
- PREF_MOUSE now means consent, not a hot-spot wish: 0 = the user has
turned mouse use off, so a door must not enable reporting for
hot-spots, menus or scrolling. A pointer-driven door (steering,
aiming) may still capture the pointer and then offers its own switch.
Synchronet has no per-user hot-spot setting; its MOUSE setting is the
user's answer to "Does your terminal support mouse reporting".
- Synchronet notes: TERM_MOUSE from per-session detection, falling back
to the user's setting when detection was silent; PREF_MOUSE=0 when
the setting is off. New to-do: keep the detected capability on the
Terminal object, never in autoterm, because Terminal::get_flags()
ORs the user's manual flags into the detected ones, so a detected
MOUSE would override a user's "no"; the MOUSE setting then means
consent and its question is reworded and defaulted from detection.
- The forked-CTerm to-do is ticked (done in 45d5185bdb, lens-28-were,
2026-09-30).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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