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- Backfile Module Instructions: (by Kevin Doyle 12/9/91)
-
- This module was created by Kevin Doyle.
-
- BEFORE YOU CAN USE THIS, YOU HAVE TO READ THIS !!
-
- (You MUST add the file "bulletins.backfile" and "bulletins.intro"
- to the "send" folder for MUBBS.)
-
- This prints a file "backwards". It simply looks for the character
- "~" somewhere in the file that marks the "end" of your data.
-
- The idea is to use it as a "backwards" bulletin printout. You add
- new bulletins to a file at the END. Any previous bulletins need to
- have the "~" character at the end of them.
-
- When the user logs in, he gets the bulletins in backwards order, and
- can press cancel when he gets to what ever he has already read !
-
- This module has other applications as a "NEWS" file send that shows
- your latest system or "world" news in backwards order.
-
- You can DUPLICATE this module and RENAME it to whatever you like. The
- current name is "bulletins" and so it uses the files named
- "bulletins.backfile" and "bulletins.intro" to do its work.
-
- If you named it "joe", it would use the files "joe.backfile" and
- "joe.intro" to do its work.
-
- The file "bulletins.intro" is just simply sent as is EVERY time the
- module is called. You can say things like "bulletins, press C to
- cancel" in this file.
-
- The files it uses MUST be in the "send" folder.
-
- Install this by copying it to your "modules" resource file using
- ResEdit. Rename and renumber it as you wish.
-
- Sample files are included for you...
-
- >>> 4K LIMIT !
-
- Text for EACH "bulletin" must be limited to 4K (the WHOLE file can be
- as LARGE as you want). It needs to see a "~" character each 4K. If
- not the text WILL be cut off ! (actually 4096 characters)
-
- >>> 4K LIMIT !
-
- You don't have to put a "~" at the START or END of the file.
-
- Kevin Doyle
- 16838 Shinedale Drive
- Canyon Country CA 91351
-
- KevD << VIA America On Line
- Kevin Doyle << MUBBS Support BBS (805) 259-6407
-
- -END-
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