What are the Zone/Zone9x/ZoneNT files?

[Bob]

What are those three applications for? when I click one they just open a window and close out a split second later, are they there for everybody or just certain people?

[Bob]

What is the difference between the Boot5Zones.bat and the Boot5Zones.Win9x.bat?

[Baltar]

I don't know but since I'm running 95 I've been running zone95. I think the zonent is for NT os? Previously I used the regular zone files and they were really quick in closing the window. The new 95 zone file close alot slower. Anyone out there know why the zone95 files are slower to close and could the regular zone executable be used in it's place?

Baltar

[madborg]

Zone9x.exe and ZoneNT.exe are for Windows 9x and Windows NT (NT/2000/XP). There are not meant to be run without agruments.

The batch files give the correct arguments. So depending on which type of Windows you have, you run Boot5zones batch files.

the format is something like this

zoneXX - IPofzoneserver port IPofworldserver

when you have the client, world, and zoneserver on one machine and let's say OS win98 then your file would look like this:

zone9x - 127.0.0.1 9001 127.0.0.1

The dash is a placehold in the zonetable so that you can boot up any zone up to 5 open zones. If you plan on having more open zones, then add more like the 5.

If you use private internal IPs then 127.0.0.1 becames whatever your IP is (mine is 192.168.1.3). If you are using a exernal IP (open to the Internet) then you set the first IP to your exernal, like this:

zone9x - 132.154.1.112 9003 127.0.0.1

and that's all there is to that.