Subj : docs/doordrop_ini.md
To   : Git commit to main/sbbs/master
From : Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux)
Date : Fri Oct 02 2026 13:33:51

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/6be4cdaf0f99c0a86f03811b
Modified Files:
	docs/doordrop_ini.md
Log Message:
docs: DOORDROP.INI draft 0.8

Incorporate Deuce's review on r/bbs (2026-10-02):

- PETSCII and ATASCII are families of character sets, not single
  mappings; the names say which family, a door confines itself to what
  the members share, and a later draft may add a way to name a member
- USER_KEY is required (unless local): the host, which knows whether its
  user numbers are reused, derives a never-reused key, so a door always
  has one field to key per-user data on
- TERM_COLORS names which SGR color methods the terminal honors (8, 16,
  256, 16777216), replacing the claim that every ANSI terminal has the
  CGA palette; 8 covers terminals that render SGR 1 as bold, not bright
- FILE_TIME is required: it is the moment TIME_LEFT was measured, and a
  door whose clock agrees with the host's may subtract the time since
- The path type names the encoding the door's runtime expects for file
  names (POSIX bytes, the Windows ANSI code page, the DOS path), and a
  path that can't be represented is left out
- The file's encoding is stated as a rule (UTF-8 iff a line is exactly
  FILE_UTF8=1), and comparisons are exact except IANA charset names
- A door that looks the file up by name looks for DOORDROP.INI in that
  exact spelling; no case folding
- The key-prefix trade is stated plainly

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