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- The freeware crash-prevention program for Windows '95(tm)
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- Hi. Welcome to BBSWATCH, the freeware crash protection program for Sysops
- running their BBS under Windows '95.
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- WHO SHOULD NOT USE THIS
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- If you don't know what a SysOp or a BBS is, this is not for you.
- If you do not use Windows 95, this is not for you.
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- ------------------------WHAT BBSWATCH DOES AND DOESN'T DO---------------------
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- BBSWATCH will *NOT* fix problems that occur within your BBS window.
- Example, if a user is in a door and it locks up, BBSWATCH won't do anything.
- ALL BBSWATCH does, is re-open the window if it was closed. The program assumes
- everything is going A-OK within the window, that is up to you to setup.
- All this program will do is watch wether the window is open or closed, and
- re-start it if Windows or whatever closes it down.
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- If the Window is still OPEN, BBSWATCH does nothing with whats inside.
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- ----------------------------------INTRODUCTION--------------------------------
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- BBSWATCH was designed by a fellow named Andrew Adams, who runs his BBS under
- Windows 95, and was sick of Windows constantly shutting down the window in
- which his BBS ran in. So he said, "HEY! I'm sick of windows constantly shutting
- down the window in which my BBS runs in! I must do somthing!"
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- And he went to work designing this program to keep his BBS running 24hrs a
- day, even if nasty old Windows 95 shut down the windows.
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- When he was finished, he said to himself "Ahh... Much better. I wonder if
- other Sysops have the same problems!?"
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- And he asked local Sysops and found that many of them did. Wether it was only
- ocassional or quite often, each and every one of the Sysops had experienced
- this. And they said "Hey, Andrew, us Sysops want to use this wonderfull
- program!"
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- And there it began. So, Andrew figured to himself that he would let people
- use it for free, seeing it was super useful. (Adding the fact he is a nice guy)
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- OK!!!!! Enough blabbing. On to the documentation! (Blech!)
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- Hey Andrew, what is required to run this marvelous thing?
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- 1. An IBM-Compatible PC
- 2. Windows '95
- 3. A BBS program
- 4. The fact that your WINDOWS\COMMAND directory is in the PATH **Important**
- 5. Very little memory free (so little, why bother counting?)
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- OK! How do I get started?
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- First of all, unzip the archive into any old directory.
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- Ok thats all the installation. You're started.
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- Ok! I got it installed! How do I get this baby fired up?
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- What you need to do, is go into Windows, and edit your STARTUP group.
- Remove your normal BBS Startup command, and REPLACE it with
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- {bbswatch directory}\BBSWATCH.EXE [ bbs startup command ]
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- So, in example, if my BBS startup program was C:\MyBBS\STARTBBS.BAT, I would
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- C:\UTIL\BBSWATCH C:\MyBBS\STARTBBS.BAT
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- Ok... Thats it. BBSWATCH will start your program, and moniter the box that it
- is in. Just leave BBSWATCH running minimized in the backround, and it will
- catch any foul movements by Windows 95.
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- -----------------------------TESTING BBSWATCH---------------------------------
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- If you want to see if BBSWATCH really works, then follow the above
- instructions, start BBSWATCH, and then close your BBS window. A few seconds
- later, a new one should appear. If not, please see below.
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- ------------------------------REACHING THE AUTHOR-----------------------------
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- Q) Hey.... BBSWATCH works great except for this one error... What do I do?
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- A) Contact Andrew Adams at any of the following sites:
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- Fidonet : 1:253/234
- Internet: andrew_adams@accel.net
- BBS : 705-426-4636
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- Q) OK... there are no errors, but I think BBSWATCH should be able to...
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- A) Mail all your comments to the above address and let me know! There is always
- room for improvment.
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- -----------------------------------DISCLAIMER---------------------------------
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- The author of this software, Andrew Adams, assumes no responsibility for any
- problem that the use of this sofware may cause. He has desperately tried to
- work out all the bugs himself, but that does not mean there are any left.
- If you find BBSWATCH causes a problem, please report the exact error and your
- setup to one of the above-mentioned address and he will try to help you out
- as soon as humanly possible.
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- Thank you,
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- Andrew Adams
- Author
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- Enjoy!!!
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