hey all.

I just finished upgrading Rise n' Shine from 3.20 to 3.21 and my doors don't want to launch any more, giving the error "Sorry, DOS programs are not supported on this node" in the BBS itself, and "DOS programs not supported" in the Synchronet Terminal Server console window.

I've been googling and chatgpting this afternoon trying to figure out what changed between 3.20 and 3.21 in the execution of doors. I'm running Windows 10 32-bit and have the NTVDM system created and have the legacy console enabledfor cmd.exe.

I've gotten it to the point where everything works outside of the BBS. (all thedoor exe's run as expected)

I didn't see any flags in the NODE configs in SCFG, and nothing changed in the individual door settings... any ideas?

Thanks!
--rob

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Re: no longer able to run doors after 3.21 upgrade
By: smooth0401 to All on Tue Mar 17 2026 03:20 pm

individual door settings... any ideas?

Just a follow up... I did get it working, in the sbbs.ini file, there was a NO_DOS line in the "options" line. I just removed that and the doors are all set! What's weird, I didn't see that corrosponding option in SCFG at all? I'mjust curious if that'll get overwritten or not.

--rob

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Re: no longer able to run doors after 3.21 upgrade
By: smooth0401 to All on Tue Mar 17 2026 03:33 pm

Re: no longer able to run doors after 3.21 upgrade
By: smooth0401 to All on Tue Mar 17 2026 03:20 pm

individual door settings... any ideas?

Just a follow up... I did get it working, in the sbbs.ini file, there was a NO_DOS line in the "options" line. I just removed that and the doors are all set! What's weird, I didn't see that corrosponding option in SCFG at all?

That option is in SCFG->Servers->Terminal Server->DOS Program Support.

In SBBSCTRL, it's a checkbox on the Terminal Server Configuration dialog.

I'mjust curious if that'll get overwritten or not.

No. The ctrl/sbbs.ini file is not, should not be touched during an upgrade.
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Re: no longer able to run doors after 3.21 upgrade
By: Digital Man to smooth0401 on Tue Mar 17 2026 11:56 pm

That option is in SCFG->Servers->Terminal Server->DOS Program Support.
In SBBSCTRL, it's a checkbox on the Terminal Server Configuration dialog.

Thanks Rob, much appreciated!

--rob

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Re: no longer able to run doors after 3.21 upgrade
By: smooth0401 to Digital Man on Thu Mar 19 2026 02:31 pm

Re: no longer able to run doors after 3.21 upgrade
By: Digital Man to smooth0401 on Tue Mar 17 2026 11:56 pm

That option is in SCFG->Servers->Terminal Server->DOS Program Support.
In SBBSCTRL, it's a checkbox on the Terminal Server Configuration dialog.

Thanks Rob, much appreciated!

Sure. Now, that setting should not been automatically set or reset as part of the upgrade process, so something weird happened there. Your sbbs.ini file got overwritten? Did you look into how that happened?
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