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- Date: 09-25-92 (08:55)
- From: DAVID LEBLANC
- To: ALL
- Subj: ON-LINE TAGLINE MANAGEMENT
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- Can't resist the urge to have taglines but really want to respond
- to a message immediately while on-line? If you have tried Tagline
- Express and prefer it as a tagline manager over say JH3 then you
- can now utilize it's database, search or compose tagline
- functions while on-line! I used a PD script to use on-line
- taglines with JH3 while I was evaluating it as a tagline manager.
- Along came Tagline Express and after a while I figured out how to
- adapt the Qmodem script to use it with TLX while on-line. Here it is with
- my suggestion you configure a separate copy of TLX in say your
- script directory, so as not to mess up anything already in place
- for OFF-LINE tagline management.
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- ; RipOff, version 2.000
- ;
- ; Qmodem 5.01 script for adding taglines to messages written on-line,
- ; using Qmodem and the Tagline Express (TLX) program.
- ; Based on a similar script written by:
- ; Written by Maurice Crouse, 29 March 1990.
- ; Revision 0.02 written 2 April 1990.
- ; Revision 0.03 written 12 April 1990.
- ; Qmodem adaptation written 24 April 1990.
- ;
- ; See TLX documentation on how to use the off-line taglines features.
- ; Setup TLX in QM\SCRIPT dir and run config using GENERIC mail reader option
- ; leave TLX.TAG as tagline file and create it as ascii with at least 1
- ; tagline in it. You can also use just this file and not create
- ; the TLX database file if you choose.
-
- string logo tear enter space tlxdir qmdir tagline ;define variables
- assign logo " *RipOff_2.000* " ;logo whatever you like here!!
- assign tear "---" ;"tear" line
- assign enter "^M" ;equate for Return
- assign space " " ;equate for space character
- assign tlxdir "c:\QM\script" ;put your TLX directory here
- assign qmdir "c:\qm" ;put your Qmodem directory here
- chdir $tlxdir ;change to TLX directory
- exist TLX.exe foundtlx ;see if TLX is there,
- displayln "Can't run TLX." ;if not, admit error.
- goto goterror
- foundtlx:
- dos "TLX -g c:\qm\script c:\qm\script\tlx.tag" ;run TLX NOTE ascii TLX.TAG
- ;needed for .REP file
- exist TLX.TAG foundrep ;verify .REP file is there,
- displayln "Can't find the tagline file." ;if not, admit error.
- goto goterror
- foundrep:
- openfile tlx.tag read ;open .REP file for reading
- readfile tagline ;copy tagline to variable
- ;at this point TLX will allow you to go to database, select
- ; or edit the tagline enter a new one or exit.
- closefile ;close .REP file
- chdir $qmdir ;change back to Qmodem directory
- send "$space" ;create a blank line
- send "$enter"
- send "$tear" ;send the "tear" line
- send "$enter"
- send "$logo" ;send the logo
- send "$tagline" ;send the tagline
- send "$enter"
- exit
- goterror: ;if we end up here, an error was made
- closefile ;close .REP file
- displayln "Sorry, can't add the tagline." ;admit failure
- chdir $qmdir ;change back to Qmodem directory
- exit
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-
- Note the "logo" Is ANY name you want to come up with. I urge you
- not to make it any bigger so as to conform to standard practice
- and use the two *'s to conform to the FIDO readable logo. Since
- this is an ON-LINE script I have set up a hot key to run it in
- Qmodem. I type my reply or message on-line and before saving the
- message to the BBS I hot key into the script, choose a tagline with TLX
- and THEN save to the BBS. Finally, some characters CANNOT be
- transmitted INTO a message while on-line as the BBS software will
- interpret them as commands. What works fine in a zipped .QWK
- file that is READ on-line WILL NOT necessarily work transmitted as
- characters through the modem. I suggest you restrict your ON-LINE
- taglines to the normal keyboard characters, not the high or low
- ASCII.
-
- ÆDavid LeBlancØ
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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