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                             Resume Flagged v1.4
                  Copyright (C) 1994, by Cutting Edge Online
                             All rights reserved.

                  Programming and Documentation by John Marx


















       Cutting Edge Online                              [phone] Voice
       6372-B Kucinski Street                           [phone] BBS
       Fort Polk, LA  71459                             Hayes Optima 28.8k
       U.S.A.                                           FidoNet: 1:3817/9

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                              System Requirements

     The requirements for using this PPE are as follows:

          a.  PCBoard 15.21+ (This program was created with PPLC v3.0 and will
not work with any version less than 15.21.)

          b.  Enough space on your hard drive for installation of the
program.

          c.  It's not needed but placing this PPE and all your PPE's into
different subdirectories is helpful.  This allows you to more easily update
or remove a PPE with it's accompanying files.  Plus if you place more than
one PPE in a directory you may run into the program trying to use a file it
shouldn't.

     This is all that is needed to run this program.

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                               Program Overview

     Have you ever had a user accidently, always, you hang them up and they
had files flagged for download? If not I sure would like to meet you! We all
have had this happen to us and know that if we have files flagged and then
call back we have to start all over again recreating the wheel. No longer!
With the advent of "Resume Flag" you will no longer have your users griping
that they lost carrier as they will be able to reflag their download list
if they so desire or if they don't.

     Some of the highlights of this program are:

        ■ Ease of user for both SysOp and User

        ■ Preview the list of files that the user had flagged

        ■ 100% multilingual and we MEAN it! All external files are mutligual
          with you customation allowed on all of them.

        ■ All commands, colors, etc are 100% SysOp definable.

        ■ No NAG-me-to-death screens. This is a risk we're taking on our part
          to make the program available to you and we hope that if you use it
          you will support the shareware concept.

     Just follow the step by step instructions below and you will be running
in no time.

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                             Program Installation

          1. The first thing you will want to do is unZIP this file into it's
             own subdirectory. The reason for this is simple. Some filenames
             might contain the same name as another PPE and the two files most
             likely aren't exactly the same so problems will probally occur if
             you install all of your PPE's in the same directory.

          2. You will probally want to make the following files suite your
             systems color specification so we suggest you use PCBEDIT and
             edit the following files to your taste. (NOTE: You don't need
             to do this step if you want to just start out and keep the
             default color scheme.) The files which you may wish to edit
             are:

                a. USERLOST -- This file is displayed to the user upon logon if
                               the program detects that they have a flagged
                               file list available. This asks whether they want
                               to flag the new list (yes or no) or view it.

          3. You will now need to edit a LOGIN file. This could be a file
             called LOGIN which for 99% of the population is. To edit this
             LOGIN file you will need to do the following:

                a. Load PCBSETUP.EXE

                b. Type B for File Locations

                c. Type D for New User/Logon/off Questionnaires

                d. Press the down arrow TWO times

                e. You should now be ontop of a file called D:\PCB\GEN\LOGIN
                   or something similar. This is on the line that says:

                        Name/Location of Login File

                f. Press F2 edit

                g. Add the following line

                        !d:\pcb\ppe\resume\logon.ppe

                   NOTE: The paths will most likely be different from my system
                   to yours so your will need to make the appropriate changes.
                   Also, take heed of the LOGIN at the end! This may be upper,
                   lower case, or mixed case but must be there. Nothing will be
                   displayed to the user. This is to set the user up for when
                   they logoff the system. If this is not there your bulletin
                   may not reflect what the user actually did while online
                   during their stay on your system.

          4. You will need to edit your logoff file in the same manner. This is
             in the same area as the login file. You would just add this for
             line (g) above.

                        !d:\pcb\ppe\resume\logoff.ppe

          4a. We've found that many systems don't have the same setup as ours.
              As such their systems don't call the logoff script file when they
              drop carrier as mine currently does. I don't know exactly why
              mine does and others don't, so I've come up with a fix to make
              certain others systems can use this program. If you want you may
              edit your PCBTEXT files so that line 215 contains the following:

                        !d:\pcb\ppe\resume\logoff.ppe

          5. This is an optional procedure, but if you would like it then
             please go ahead and install it. This will allow you to remove the
             files flagged for download for the user. This has become a very
             popular add-on. Instead of having to press d and answering no to
             the download the flagged files the user could type something like
             clear and enter and be done. To add this command you will need to
             do the following:

                a. Load PCBSETUP.EXE

                b. Type B for File Locations

                c. Type B for Configuration Files

                d. Press the down arrow until you're ontop of CMD.LST.

                e. Press F2 edit

                f. Add the following line

                        Command    Security    What it Does
                        -------    --------    --------------------------------
                        CLEAR      10          d:\pcb\ppe\resume\clear.ppe

                   NOTE: The paths will most likely be different from my system
                   to yours so your will need to make the appropriate changes.
                   Also, take heed of the LOGIN at the end! This may be upper,
                   lower case, or mixed case but must be there. Nothing will be
                   displayed to the user. This is to set the user up for when
                   they logoff the system. If this is not there your bulletin
                   may not reflect what the user actually did while online
                   during their stay on your system.

      That's all there is to it!  Enjoy!

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                           Possible Error Codes

     There are several reasons for error codes.  The main reason is something
went wrong in the program.  Even though all efforts have been made to remove
any and all possible errors there still may be some configuration we haven't
thought of.  As such we've included extensive error checking in all of our
programs to eliminate any and all possible errors.

     Errors will be shown to the caller on the screen explaining what went
wrong and why if the program can determine without a doubt what it was.

     All errors will be logged to the callers log!  This allows you to
correct any problems that your users might not tell you.  A lot of times when
an error occurs the users like "that's nice."  We feel that even as nice as
it would be for the user to explain to the SysOp what they were doing when
such errors occur, we know not to expect it so we've added this to the code
as well.  When it logs this information to the callers log it also logs the
exact saying that it gave to the user.  This gives you the most complete
information we can.

     You may also wish to check out the "Frequently Asked Questions" at the
end of this document for it may cover a question you are currently having
about PCBoard and PPE's.

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                             Contacting the Author

     I can be reached on either my BBS or through my home phone number at any
time.  If I'm not home and you receive the answering machine just leave your
name and number with a short explanation, if you can, of the problem.  I WILL
call you back as soon as I can and if you gave me a description of your
problem will more than likely have an answer for you when I do call you back.

     When you do call us with information about a bug in the program please
give us the following information.  This information will help us determine
what the problem is:

          1.  Program name and version number.

          2.  Type and brand of computer, hard disk, plus any peripherals.

          3.  Version of DOS plus any TSRs or device drivers in use.

          4.  Explanation of your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files.

          5.  Description of what is in memory from the MEM command (DOS 4
              and above users only) or a similar utility.

          6.  The exact problem you are having.  Please be as specific as
              possible.  Having a printout of the screen and/or being at your
              computer will be helpful.

     The Cutting Edge Online BBS operates 24 hours a day, is using a Hayes
Optima 28.8k modem, PCBoard 15.2/10 and the number is [phone].  You
will be able to download if you wish on the first call.  There are no
callback doors.  We do use CALLER-ID for just this purpose.  I personally
don't like callback doors and am sure many others feel the same.  We've
recently upgraded the system bringing the system to 13.2 Gigs online with
5 CD-ROMs.

     I'm available also on the PCBoard Support BBS, Salt Air.  I only call
once a week, normally on Saturday so the replies won't be as quick as you may
like.  I'm also in the FidoNet PCBoard, PCB-Net conferences.  Our FidoNet
address is 1:3817/9.

     If you have a problem, suggestion, comment, download or just wish to
talk please call and we will be more than glad to serve you.  We're not happy
until YOU are happy so let us know if we're doing something wrong.  If we're
doing it right tell your fellow PCBoard SysOps, if not tell US!