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The BBS software would start the external program, and the door system would pass data back and forth between the door program, the BBS, and the remote user. To supply the door program with the user's information (such as the user's alias and the amount of time they had spent online), the BBS software would create a Dropfile containing information for the program to read. A few door programs including Front Line operated the opposite way, as Front Doors, answering the modem and then giving control to the BBS software. This method was particularly commonplace for hubs of networks. FOSSIL was a popular communications hardware/software interface standard used by MS-DOS compatible BBS software and door programs which has helped these legacy programs remain compatible with modern communications technologies such as Telnet and Rlogin . While many of the most popular and memorable BBS doors were games, numerous doors had non-entertainment applications such as user polls or the Time Bank , permitting users to time-shift their rationed BBS use. Frequently they would act as a front-end to themed databases on subject such as astrology, numerology and fortune-telling, recipes, weather prediction, personal ads (sometimes with additional match-making functionality), classified ads and "for sale" listings (sometimes permitting auctions), BBS lists and parting comments from the most recent BBS callers. Prodoor provided a different message editor for use with the PCBoard messagebase. Many doors including Markmail and Qmail provided QWK functionality for convenient use with Offline Reader s. Sysop s who were away from the BBS computer sometimes called in and used DOORWAY by Marshall Dudley, which could run many DOS programs by modem, including File Manager s, DOS Prompt , and the specialized editing programs that administered the BBS. POPULAR DOOR GAMES
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