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- It seems quite a few people are confused about how to update to a new
- version of WWIV. It is relatively simple. You do not need to erase all
- your files or messages or anything like that. How to update:
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- 1. Copy >ALL< of the new files into your main BBS directory. By this I
- mean all the .PAS and .MSG files. SECLEV.DAT will probably not be changed,
- and the documentation is for your information only.
-
- 2. Copy the .MSG files into the GFILES directory, such as "COPY *.MSG
- GFILES".
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- 3. Delete the .MSG files out of the main BBS directory, so you don't have
- them sitting there for no reason, by saying (from the MAIN BBS directory,
- not gfiles) "DEL *.MSG".
-
- 4. Compile the BBS, forgetting about "INIT.PAS". Look in the
- documentation, and it will tell you which files need to be compiled, and
- whether those are .CHN or .COM files.
-
- 5. You >DO NOT< need to run the initialization program. Any new files
- which were not present on your older version will be created by the BBS
- program when it is run for the first time.