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- SLNAME
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- SLNAME is an external program designed to be a more personalized
- logoff screen. It takes the user's name, and turns it into an
- ANSI style version, with the letters being larger, and in random
- colors. If the user doesn't have color, then it merely says
- goodbye in the normal text fashion.
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- SLNAME was written by me during the days I thought I was going to
- be some major BBS programmer. To date, I have only written one
- other BBS external program. I guess the idea of having a door which
- was written in QuickBASIC ver. 2.0 didn't appeal to most SYSOPs.
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- At any rate, I made it to run under Searchlight BBS software. This
- was the BBS software I was using at the time. I would also like to
- take this opportunity to disclaim myself from any adverse effects
- this program might have on your system. I mean sheesh, I wrote it
- on an old Tandy TL/2 (80286), so I'm not sure of how it may act
- on other systems. So if you experience lock-ups, or something
- else which you are not happy with, simply don't run SLNAME.
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- SETUP
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- First, unzip all files into a directory of your choice. For
- the sake of this .DOC we'll say C:\SLBBS\SLNAME will be the
- directory to use.
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- Run SLBBS's CONFIG.EXE file, and go into AutoDoors Setup. From
- there choose the LogOff AutoDoor Setup. Here's how it should
- look:
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- 1. Command ..................... NAME.BAT %U %G
- 2. Directory Path .............. C:\SLBBS\SLNAME
- 3. Communications Support ...... Force-Color
- 4. Abort Method ................ Terminate
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- You should include the .BAT extension so SL won't go looking for
- NAME.EXE. The %U is the username with any spaces replaced with
- the underscore bar ( _ ). Don't worry, the _ will then be turned
- back to a space in SLNAME, but you MUST use this parameter. The
- %G is the graphics mode of the user. If the mode is anything other
- than C (color) SLNAME will merely print
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- GOODBYE:
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- USER NAME
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- The Directory Path should be pretty understandable. This is
- the drive and path where the SLNAME program files reside.
- Communications Support MUST be set to Force-Color, otherwise
- the user will not see the display even though the SYSOP of
- the host computer sees everything just fine. I think this is
- because of the way that QuickBASIC 2.0 does it's screen writes.
- Abort Methos is the action that Searchlight takes if carrier
- is dropped while running this door. Terminate will stop SLNAME
- and return to SLBBS. Some PCs may experience lockups if carrier
- is dropped, in which case you may want to set the Abort Method
- to Re-Boot. This will Re-Boot your PC. Obviously, for this to
- work properly for you, you must include a statement in your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file which loads SLBBS on bootup.
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- I've taken out a couple bugs since my first attempt at SLNAME.
- The first one would not display the dark gray color to the
- user, so I eliminated that. Also, I had to include a statement
- which took different action if the user's name was too large
- (longer than 19 characters).
-
- I thought about making this program shareware, and having you
- send me $10 if you like it, but what the hell. I've used
- enough shareware programs without registering them, that I
- decided to just make this thing FreeWare! Besides, who's really
- going to send money for it?
-
- If, however, you have some comments you'd like to let me
- know of, I can be reached on the Cleveland Freenet. Send
- Email to aj423.
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- Dewey Thompson
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