MBSE BBS: Running Linux Doors with MBSE

Introduction

Running Linux-native doors is very easy with MBSE. For this example, I'll use the Linux-native version of Wordle by Alexander Corris.

Here's how to do this:

1. Install the door to a directory. For this example, I will use /opt/mbse/doors/wordle. Make sure to run umask 007 first, then chmod the binary to 0770 and the rest of the files to 0660


2. Create a bash script similar to below in ~/bin (I call this "runwordle"):
   
   #!/bin/bash
   cd /opt/mbse/doors/wordle
   # The -X tells the door to run as a stdio program, not as a door
   ./bbswordle -D$1/door32.sys -X
   # The next two liners puts the program's bulletins where they need to be for MBSE
   cp ./bulletin.ans /opt/mbse/share/int/txtfiles/en/blt61.ans
   cp ./bulletin2.ans /opt/mbse/share/int/txtfiles/en/blt62.ans
   


3. Set up a menu entry in mbsetup similar to below:
   
   
   
   /H expands to show the user's home directory where all the dropfiles are written to.
   
   The script will expand the calling line in runwordle to ./wordle -D/opt/mbse/home/(username)/door32.sys -X

Test out the door and it should work fine.

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