on 03 Jan 2023, xqtr said...
I am not using DDPLUS, but an altered version of XDOOR. At the end,
most, if not all, old TP door kits, were almost the same, as they were using the elenorm library. Even some "modern" for FreePascal do. The changes are in the way they apply the different utility functions.
I hate to "well, actually..." you but this is far from accurate. Very few TP door kits use ELENORM. In fact, even XDOOR itself only moved to ELENORM in v3.00 to add easy compatibility for telnet/door32.sys via Virtual Pascal. Not sure what they were based on, but DDPLUS had its only comm routines. That said, I agree with your general point, especially these days when we almost exclusively use fossil drivers (or emulation) so needing to worry about some of the trickier aspects of comm routines, odd proprietary hardware support, etc. really isn't an issue like it was when thinks like DDPLUS, AsyncPro, etc. were in their prime.
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