This file comes to you courtesy of Jacque Shipley of the Mother Board
              BBS.  We just can't thank her enough.

  Please be aware that the contributed SPITFIRE SF.BAT commands or the
Wildfire script commands represent the drive, directory and other
specifics of the Sysop who donated them and will need to be modified to
reflect your particular system setup.  These are meant to serve as a
guideline for installing the door on a SPITFIRE BBS and are not
intended to replace referring to the documentation for the door
installation instructions.

  Installing ModemNews Magazine on a SPITFIRE BBS System can be
accomplished by several different means.  If a Sysop wishes to only
have one issue of ModemNews (presumably the most recent) I would
recommend setting it up outside of Wildfire, using the normal SPITFIRE 
door installation procedure and running it from the SPITFIRE Door Menu 
or as a Sysop Configurable command from the Main, Message or File Menu.

   To do this, obtain the latest version of Doorway (DRWY205.ZIP 
currently, at the time of this writing) and ModemNews Magazine.  Create 
a directory specifically for running your ModemNews Magazine as a door
or Sysop Configurable command.  For my system the directory is: 

C:\DOOR\MNEWS.  

   Uncompress your Doorway utility and the Modem New Magazine to this
directory.  Once all the files are contained in this directory, you
will need to modify your SF.BAT and SFDOOR.MNU files if you are running
ModemNews as a door and create a SFMAIN.BAT, SFFILE.BAT or SFMESS.BAT
if it is being run as a Sysop Configurable command option.

   As a door, you will need to include the following line in your
SFDOOR.MNU to correspond to the appropriate door from which your users
will access the ModemNews Magazine:

ModemNews Magazine,10

   Next you will need to modify your SF.BAT.  Let's assume ModemNews is
being installed as Door_A.  When finished, your batch file should be
similar to the one below:

:DOOR_A
   CD\DOOR\MNEWS
   DOORWAY COM1 /L: /N: /M:20 /O: /S:* /P:NEWSxx.EXE /0
   CD\SF
   GOTO LOOP
:DOOR_B

   The specific Doorway command switches you will use will depend on
how you wish to set up ModemNews on your system.  For instance, the /O:
option listed above, only is available to registered Doorway users for
removing Doorway's opening screen and the /M:20 which sets a 20 minute
time limit is limited to 10 minutes in the unregistered versions.

   If ModemNews is going to be set up as a Sysop Configurable command,
place the commands contained between the :DOOR_A and :DOOR_B in the 
SF.BAT mentioned above in the appropriate SFMAIN.BAT, SFMESS.BAT or
SFFILE.BAT.  The appropriate SFMAIN.BAT, SFMESS.BAT or SFFILE.BAT 
should be placed in your main system files path for SPITFIRE.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

   Personally, I wanted to have several issues of ModemNews available
to my users.  The easiest way I found to do this was to combine the
features of Doorway and Wildfire.  Wildfire provides an easy way to set
up a menu to provide the various ModemNews issues and using Doorway to
execute the NEWSxx.EXE file. So if you decide to run it this way, you
can use the following set up:

   A directory will need to be created for each ModemNews issue you 
wish to have available.  I name the directories I set up after the 
particular issue it contains.  For instance, for this example, I will
be setting up the October 1989 issue, NEWS13 (the 13th issue of
ModemNews).  The Doorway utility must either be placed in each
directory or in a directory that is contained in your path statement.
Then modify your SF.BAT as follows:


SPITFIRE BATCH COMMANDS
-----------------------

:DOOR_A
CD \SF\WILDFIRE
WILDFIRE MONITOR.CFG MNEWS
:BEGIN
 IF ERRORLEVEL 60 GOTO DOOR
 IF ERRORLEVEL 50 GOTO DONE
 IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO DONE
 GOTO DONE
 :DOOR
 CALL RUN
 WILDFIRE RESTART
 GOTO BEGIN
 :DONE
 CD \SF
GOTO LOOP
:DOOR_B


   Set up a menu in Wildfire for your ModemNews entitled MNEWS and set 
the particular issue up in the following manner:

   

WILDFIRE SET UP AND SCRIPT COMMANDS
-----------------------------------

DOOR ATTRIBUTES:
        Board Type = S
        Time Limit = 20
 Security Required = 10
Re-Run Lock Status = N
    Expired Status = N 

EXECUTION SCRIPT
Line #1:  ECHO OFF
Line #2:  CD\DOOR\MNEWS13
Line #3:  DOORWAY
Line #4:  DOORWAY COM1: /L: /M:20 /S:* /O: /N: /P:NEWSxx.EXE /0

  Once again, the specific command switches you use with Doorway will
depend on your preferred set up on your system.  


Sample ModemNews Set Ups
Contributed By Jacque Shipley
The Mother Board BBS  -  (515) 986-3464
9600/2400/1200 Baud
Grimes, Iowa

(And GREATLY appreciated!   (ed))