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- ultrachat v1.3 by [mike mc]
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-
- One of the best PPE-chatters around. Slow but quite cool.
- /X-ers better quit reading now. This PPE won't fit to their style.
-
- It's more than 3000 lines of source...
-
-
-
- how it works
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-
- Pretty easy. Works as an normal split screen chatter, but with different
- color-schemes .. and LOTS of functions!
-
- Please read this section, it could save you a lot of work.
-
- Here is a short list of functions available to the sysop/user:
-
- Ctrl-A Autovalidate. Use up/down arrows to set security.
- THIS WILL ALSO BE WRITTEN IN THE USERBASE!
- The user will not see what security you gave him!
- [Sysop only]
-
- Ctrl-B Rotate through backgrounds.
- [Sysop only]
-
- Ctrl-C Clear Window.
- [Sysop and user]
-
- Ctrl-D Download. See also /DOWNLOAD.
- [Sysop only]
-
- Ctrl-E Effects. See also /EFFECTS.
- [Sysop only]
-
- Ctrl-I Brings up a helpscreen. Diffrent sysop/user help!
- All funcions didn't fit here. Look in the doc (here) for
- further details.
- [Sysop and user]
-
- Ctrl-R Redraw the screen. This is SLOW!
- [Sysop and user]
-
- Ctrl-U Browse through rumors. Define rumors in RUMORS.DAT.
- [Sysop only]
-
- Ctrl-W Write in the users window. All what he types will
- be buffered and showed when you go back to your
- window, by pressing ctrl-w again.
-
- You will notice that this is a VERY handy function. ;)
-
- When you have this function active, UsrWn will
- appear at the top of your screen. This is not visible
- to the user!
-
- [Sysop only]
-
- Ctrl-Z Help. See also Ctrl-I.
- [Sysop and user]
-
-
-
- There are also some commands that is executed by typing them in on an empty
- line, pressing enter afterwards.
-
-
-
- /BACKGROUND=n This changes the background (and colorscheme) to the
- one corresponding to the number n. This can be a value
- from one to five.
- Can also be reached from the settings.
- [Sysop and user]
-
- /TIME Shows for how long you and the user has been chatting
- this session. This also shows automatically every now
- and then. :)
- [Sysop and user]
-
- /SPEED=n Defines in what speed all effects are displayed in. Have
- The "Ctrl-E-Function" active while testing this command.
- The speed kan also be defined in CHAT.CNF or in the
- settings.
- [Sysop and user]
-
- /HELP Guess!
- [Sysop and user]
-
- /CURTIME Displays the system time
- [Sysop and user]
-
- /CURDAT Displays the system date
- [Sysop and user]
-
- /SETTINGS Brings up a nice settings screen. Here you can configure
- everything in the chatter.
- [Sysop only]
-
- /MACROS Switch on/off userdefined macros.
- Can also be reached from the settings.
- [Sysop only]
-
- /LISTMACROS List all userdefined macros.
- [Sysop and user]
-
- /ADDMACRO Add a userdefined macro. The user is only able to add
- macros in case the sysop has switched UserAdd on.
- [Sysop and user]
-
- /USERADD Turns on/off the possibility for the user to add a macro
- or rumor.
- [Sysop only]
-
- /USEREXIT Turns on/off the possibility for the user to exit the
- chatter with esc. Can also be reached from the settings.
- [Sysop only]
-
- /VERSION Version info.
- [Sysop and user]
-
- /GREETS Greetings.
- [Sysop and user]
-
- /EFFECTS Effects on/off. Will animate the names on the screen.
- Looks quite cool, really. :)
- [Sysop only]
-
- /DOWNLOAD Download ANY file. Perfect if you wanna show the
- user your upcomming release. :)
- (The file will not be free unless it's placed in a dir
- flagged free.)
- [Sysop only]
-
- /CASESENSETIVE Turns on/off the casesensetivity when checking for user
- defined macros.
- [Sysop and user]
-
- /PART Quit.
- [Sysop and user]
-
- /ADDRUMOR Add a rumor. Can be done by user also, if UserAdd is on.
- [Sysop and user]
-
-
-
-
- Other functions:
-
- There are ofcourse also a lot of undocumented features! =)
- One cool effect is that all smileys will flash. Check it out!! =)
-
- It will also turn off the page-flag (the one that keeps flashing on the
- local status-bar after a page) if it's set.
-
-
- About macros:
-
- Macros can be up to 40 characters long. The original word is not allowed
- to be more than 15. You can specify in the .cnf file if you want the macros
- to be casesensetive or not. If they are not casesensitive the chatter will
- of course work slower.
-
- You can have a maximum of 500 macros, but you will notice a slight speed
- loss (when pressing space or enter) even with 50.
-
-
- About rumors:
-
- You can have a maximum of 100 rumors. No speedloss will be noticed.
-
-
- Multiple sysops:
-
- The chatter now supports multiple sysops. On the first three lines in
- the .cnf you type the names of you and your co:s. Then start the chatter
- with a number from 1 to 3 on the commandline. If no commandline is
- specified, 1 will be used.
-
- Hint: Install "C:\PPE\CHAT\CHAT.PPE 1" on Shift-F1 and
- "C:\PPE\CHAT\CHAT.PPE 2" on Shift-F2 or something like
- that!
-
-
- Other:
-
- * NOTE: The words displayed at the top of the screen (UsrWn, Effects,
- UsrExit, etc) are NOT visible to the user!
-
-
-
-
- drawbacks
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-
- Well.. It's a bit slow sometimes, I have to admit that, but the PPL isn't,
- as you probably know, the fastest language around. :)
-
- You can't have more than 500 macros...
-
- You can't have more than 100 rumors...
-
-
-
-
- hints
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-
- If you want to clear the user's window, press:
-
- 1. Ctrl-W (Now you control the user.)
- 2. Ctrl-C (Clear his window.)
- 3. Ctrl-W (Back to normal.)
-
- Same thing if you want to bring up the userhelp (not the sysophelp!).
-
- 1. Ctrl-W
- 2. Ctrl-I
- 3. Ctrl-W
-
- Hope you got it. :)
-
-
-
-
- installation
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-
- Pretty simple, really!
-
- Just edit the chat.cnf (instructions included), and install it on a Shift-
- Fx key. Ten seconds, and you're ready to rock!
-
-
-
-
- commin' up next
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-
- This version was released in a hurry, and probably got a lot of bugs.
- The next version will also offer (if I get the time):
-
- 1. Bugfix!
- 2. Better usereditor. (location, sec, etc, etc)
- 3. Make macros execute on ",.!?" also.
- 4. "View-ansi/ascii-to-user-function".
- 5. Top 1O chatters.
- 6. Delete rumors.
-
-
- Gosh... when will I ever get around to fix all this? :)
-
-
-
-
- greetings
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-
- Greetings goes out to everybody on my board who had to stand all this
- beta-testing. :)
-
- To see the personal greets, type /GREETS in the chatter!
-
-
-
- history
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-
- v1.0b non public beta
-
- v1.1b public beta - 96O218
-
- v1.2 first alpha version - 96O225
-
- buggfix!
-
- nicer effects
- added /CURTIME and /CURDATE
- added /GREETS
- added /SETTINGS (sysop only, really nice, check it out!)
- made a working macro-system!
- added /MACROS (sysop only)
- added /LISTMACROS
- added /ADDMACRO
- added /USEREXIT (sysop only)
- made a better sysophelp
- added /VERSION
- added /USERADD (sysop only)
- added a lot of hardcoded macros and effects
- modified the input-routines
- updated the help
-
- v1.3 second alpha version - 96O6O9
-
- buggfix & MAJOR speedup!
-
- added a more-prompts to /LISTMACROS
- added /EFFECTS
- added /PART
- added notice when user tries to exit without permission ;)
- added function to decide wether or not macros
- should be casesensetive (.cnf and /SETTINGS)
- added /DOWNLOAD
- made Ctrl-D and Ctrl-E undocumented. ;) They will disappear
- in the future. Learn to use /DOWNLOAD and /EFFECTS instead.
- rewrote the display-routine .. MUCH faster now!
- fixed the /ADDMACRO-bug
- made it MULTITASK.. woaaw!! =)
- added /CASESENSETIVE
- made it possible to skip the welcome-word
- made yet another background .. relly nice :) "WaStE-StYlE!" ;)
- fixed clearwindow-command
- made it possible to rotate through backgrounds with Ctrl-B.
- added multiple sysop-support
- added Ctrl-Z for help
- updated the help (Ctrl-I or Ctrl-Z)
- added RUMORS!
- added Ctrl-U to browse rumors.
- added /ADDRUMOR
- the rumorsystem is not included in the help
-
-
-
- author
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-
- If you wanna contact me for some reason.
-
- My Board: 46.47O.1574O (latest version always here for free dl)
- 46.47O.39598
- Fido: 2:2OO/5O5.42
- Internet: mikemc@kuai.se (safest way)
- IRC: #bpt (if you're lucky you might catch me here)
-
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- ¡[mike mc] of elements
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