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- =====( TrionRM V1.00 )=============================================
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- Trion BBS Resource Manager.
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- (c) Copyright Paul Spijkerman, '94-'97. All rights reserved.
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- Written for use with the Trion BBS package.
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- The Trion BBS system uses a resource manager called 'TrionRM'.
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- The 'TrionRM' programm must be started before any other
- Tron utility is used otherwise they probably won't do a thing.
- This programm regulates all access to the data files,
- thanks to this more than 1 programm can acces the same file
- at the same time.
- This is needed so you can read mail at the same time as the
- mail processor is running, or 2 users can browse through the
- same file area. Also a user can't log on to two nodes at ones
- because the resource manager won't allow it.
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- Also this programm has a 'monitor' window which shows all kinds
- of important information, like what a node is doing, a list
- of last callers and statistical data.
- This window can be Iconized if you don't need it at the moment.
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- This monitor can be opened on the Workbench screen or on it's
- one public screen. Also the other Trion Utilities who open
- windows are able to open their windows on the TrionRM
- public screen.
- In the TrionRM configuration file you can config the type
- and size of screen, depth, fonts, and colors you want to use.
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- The Resource manager can handle up to 10 nodes at a time
- and a lot of other programms like the mail processor.
- All programms that handle users, files, messages and
- nodelists have to ask access from TrionRM.
- Also TrionRM had buildin Filebuffers and cache for fast
- access to file and message sections.
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- The Resource manager is started by typing:
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- run TrionRM
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- It has a few options when running.
- When you use -I on the command line, the monitor is iconized
- on startup.
- When you use -M trionrm uses it's own memory debug code which
- checks if all allocated memory in freed and checks the memory
- boundaries when the memory is freed.
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- When TrionRM is started it will try to read it's configuration
- file where all the paths for the BBS system are stored.
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- When you want to use another path to the configuration directory
- and file then the default "trion:cfg/TrionRM.cfg" then you
- have to start TrionRM with the new name and path of it's
- configuration file on the command line or the BBS don't know
- where the TrionRM.cfg is and which paths to use.
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