====== Drop files ======

A drop file is written by the BBS for each caller: who they are, their time left and their terminal. LORD FP reads all the common ones.

===== Linux and Windows =====
''-d'' gives the drop file, or the node directory holding one. Files are read by name:
^ File ^ BBS software ^
| ''DOOR32.SYS'' | Mystic, Synchronet, most newer BBSes. |
| ''DOOR.SYS'' | GAP (Synchronet's GAP types, many others). |
| ''DORINFOx.DEF'' | RBBS / QuickBBS. |
| ''CHAIN.TXT'' | WWIV. |
| ''CALLINFO.BBS'' | Wildcat. |
| ''SFDOORS.DAT'' | Spitfire. |
| ''PCBOARD.SYS'' | PCBoard. |
| ''EXITINFO.BBS'' | RemoteAccess (name only). |
Given a directory, the first found in that order is used (''DORINFO<node>.DEF'' before ''DORINFO1.DEF''). ''lord -d <file> -i'' shows what the game reads from it.

DOOR32.SYS has no screen rows, so give them with ''-r'' (Synchronet: ''-r %r''); the default is 24.

===== DOS =====
''NODE<n>.DAT'' (lordcfg's **N**) says which type and where: ''BBSTYPE'' DOORSYS, DORINFO, WWIV, WILDCAT, SPITFIRE, PCBOARD or DOOR32, and ''BBSDROP'' the directory (''D:\'' with Synchronet's dosemu2). The COM port comes from the drop file, else ''COMPORT'' in ''NODE<n>.DAT''.

===== Who is who =====
Players are matched to BBS users by the **real name** in the drop file, as lord.js does (the alias if there is no real name). If a BBS user's real name changes, they get a new character. On [[lordsrv:start|LORD Server]] the real name is the account name (''Bob'' or ''Bob@EXB'').