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- Discussions+ Documentation - By Scott Szretter
- •••••• BE SURE TO READ THE UPDATE INFO AT THE END OF THIS •••••
- ***** WARNING *****
-
- THIS IS A BETA VERSION!!!!!
-
- THIS VERSION OF DISCUSSIONS + MAY BLOW UP!!!!
-
- THE AUTHOR (Scott Szretter) TAKES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CONSEQUENCES
- OF THE USE OF THIS MODULE.
-
- How to install:
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- 1) First copy the modle into your modules file like any other module.
- (With res-edit).
-
- 2) Copy the 'dis' folder into the same folder as the modules file.
-
- 3) Configure!!
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- How to Configure:
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- Never edit the ' .hdr' , ' .txt', '.usr', or '.ext' files!
- Doing so will result in death!
-
- You may edit the dis.bases, dis.intro, dis.help, and dis.menu files.
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- 'dis.intro.lang0' : This is simply a 'welcome to the discussions text' (TEXT).
- 'dis.intro.lang1' : This is simply a 'welcome to the discussions text' (ANSI).
- 'dis.help.lang0' : This is a help file - describes menu commands (TEXT).
- 'dis.help.lang1' : This is a help file - describes menu commands (ANSI).
- 'dis.menu.lang0' : The menu the users see (TEXT).
- 'dis.menu.lang1' : The menu the users see (ANSI).
- 'dis.bases' : This is how your message areas are set up.
-
- The dis.bases file is set up as follows:
-
- General
- 1
- 0
- 65
- 65
- 65
- 0
- 150
- 0
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- The first line is the area name. (70 Max)
- The second line is the security level to access this area.
- The third line is whether or not to use handles in this area.
- 0=no, 1=yes (from mubbs user file), 2=yes (user types a handle).
- The fourth line is the length of the to field. (72 Max)
- The fifth line is the length of the from field. (72 Max)
- The sixth line is the length of the title field. (72 Max)
- The seventh line is wether to Show the ' Last Message - Add one (Y/N)'
- if in newscan. 0 = Yes, 1 = No.
- The eighth line is the number of messages allowed in this area.
- Once there are (in this example) 150 messages, the 1st message in that
- area will be deleted as new messages are added.
- ••• NOTE: This does not work yet - it has not been implemented!
- The ninth line is wheter to allow control characters or not.
- Setting this to zero will not allow strange control characters to be
- entered into a message. This will prevent weird junk.
- Setting this to a 1 will allow any control characters - this is useful
- for areas such as ANSI art, or the like.
- Note: The exact controls it will allow if this is set to zero are...
- ASCII 32 (space) through ASCII 125 (}).
- Of course backspaces and carrige returns are allowed.
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- Then, this repeats.
- You may have up to 30 message areas.
-
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- There is also an ' .intro.lang1', and '.intro.lang0' file for each area,
- which is sent to the user...
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-
-
- Discussions will create the .ext, .hdr, .txt, and .usr files AUTOMATICALLY!
- You should go into each area, and post one message though...
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- The .ext file contains how many messages are in the current area.
- The .hdr and .txt files contain the actual message information.
- The .usr file contains the info on your users - highest message read, newscan, etc...
- Again, dont try to edit these files... it could have very bad effects!
-
-
- Please note:
- There IS a "D" command to DELETE messages......
- It works only while "READING" messages - not in Newscan mode...
- BE CAREFUL USING THIS! IT NEEDS WORK!!!! YOU MAY SCREW UP THE MESSAGE AREA
- YOU ARE DELETING MESSAGES IN....
- Use it very sparingly.....
- Users can delete messages only if the message is from themselves.
- Users with security over 19 can delete any message.
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- If you wish to put the messages from the old discussions module to the new,
- you will have to do it manually - by reading/copying/pasting....
- (From remote)...
- Sorry...
-
- If you have any comments, Bugs, Suggestions... or want to DONATE!!!!
- Contact Scott Szretter...
-
- AOL : Scott001
- HMM BBS : (508)655-8927 (14400)
- (508)653-9334 (2400)
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-
-
- Update Info
- -----------
- B5 - B6 Added fields to the dis.bases file - read docs
- Now using fseeks to increase speed of finding messages....
- •••••• THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT! ••••••
-
- IF YOU HAVE EVER USED THE DELETE FUNCTION IN A MESSAGE AREA, YOU MUST DELETE THE
- TXT, HDR, EXT and USR files for that area!!!!!!!!!
-
- This is because I have changed the way the messages are read in.
- When A Message is deleted now, it will be shown as DELETED...
- (I will be writing a program that you will be able to run to clean out deleted
- messages)
-
- Sorry......
- B6 - B7 Sped up the Titles fuction so it uses the new fseek stuff.
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- B7 - B8 Fixed up where dis looks for files...
- So... if you wanted more than one discussions module.... You could
- simply duplicate the current dis resource in the moudles file, rename it,
- and simply create a new folder with the same name as the new one.
- So the old folder is called "dis" , and the key files are dis.bases,
- dis.help, etc...
- The new one might be folder: dis2, and dis2.help, dis2.bases, etc...
-
- I also added a Reply feature.... (yes, I know what happens when you reply
- many times... (a reply to a reply to a reply... etc...)
- Ill fix it....
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- B8 - B9 Fixed Word Wrap!!! Hooooray!
- Added ability to Quit while new scanning.... and a few other areas.
- Fix a few small things, and cleaned up a few thingys...
- Oh, and to let everyone know, im working on a small module to
- remove deleted messages from the discussions areas......
- (and it will use that magic number in the dis.bases file ...
- nummessages)
-