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- │ ARM OF THE DRAGON, Third Edition │
- │ Volume I of the Wars for Domination in 3045+ │
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- │ By Steven H. Lin │
- │ Original Program Concept by DevPalProj Team #1 │
- │ BattleTech(tm) Concept by FASA Corporation │
- │ Copyright 1990, 1991 by Steven H. Lin. All Rights Reserved │
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- │ Arm of the Dragon(tm) and AotD(tm) are trademarks of Merchant Prince Pro- │
- │ ductions, Inc., registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. │
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- │ BattleTech(tm) is a trademark of FASA Corporation, registered in the U.S. │
- │ Patent and Trademark Office. │
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- INSTALLATION GUIDE for AotD/3 Release 2
-
-
-
- "Hey, what do you mean, 'This isn't what I thought
- it'd be?'"
-
- ___Quick Notes______________________________________________________________
- At this time, these installation docs pertain to AotD/3 Release 2, v5.55a.
- Registered sysops will have received their specially-made "key" files that
- will function with this, and subsequent, AotD/3 releases. This IS the
- Release 2 that everybody has been waiting for: it's still looking better
- and better, and more enhancements are making their way into the new source
- even now.
-
- As you may know by now, registered AotD sysops are able to access new re-
- visions before anyone else. There often are new revisions and bug fixes
- available ONLY to registered AotD sysops, as well as a potpourri of special
- additions, modifications, and supplemental products, such as utilities and
- other DOORs. If you wish to support the shareware concept, or want to have
- access to more than just the basics, register AotD today!
-
- Also: if you have questions, comments, suggestions, contact me ASAP! I'd
- love to hear from you. If you need to, call me voice at 305/899-0957. Uh, no
- collect calls, however. Or, if you want to call my BBS, the number is
- 305/899-1841, 2400 baud and higher, supporting both HST and v.32 banners.
-
-
-
- ___Modemland Surgeon General's Remarks______________________________________
- WARNING: If you choose to run AotD/3 on your computer, you do so at your own
- risk. Steven H. Lin, [The Deviant's Palace], and DevPal MetroNet Communi-
- cations are not responsible for any mishaps which may occur while operating
- this software. This software is presented as-is, although PKware's Authenti-
- cation Verification scheme is used to protect all copies released directly
- from DevPalMiami, the headquarters for AotD development.
-
-
-
- ___Installation Guide_______________________________________________________
- 1. Unarchive the AOTD archive file into the directory UNDER which you wish
- to place the AotD/3 directory. (ie. the directory to be immediately ABOVE
- the AotD/3 directory!)
-
- 2. After completely reading and understanding this document and AOTDSYSP.Doc,
- execute the INSTALL.Bat file. INSTALL.Bat will set up AotD/3 properly in a
- directory called AOTD directly underneath your present directory. It will
- also generate special subdirectories under the AOTD directory.
-
- 2a. AotD/3 is NOT downwardly compatible with AotD/2! The data structures were
- extensively redesigned to combat a severe dynamic memory allocation problem.
- The differences between AotD/2's and AotD/3's data structures are too in-
- credibly massive to allow for even a data conversion program to retool.
-
- 3. Set up your BBS to handle AotD/3. Generate whatever entry menus and
- guides you need on your BBS system.
-
- 4. Here's the difficult part: designing the proper command line to invoke
- AotD/3 on your BBS. However, this step is actually pretty easy to understand
- if you're familiar with the Mycroft standard interface for DOORs. Basically,
- AotD/3 follows the Mycroft interface! =(:->)
-
- Some possible command lines ---
-
- a. AOTD
- Local operation
-
- b. AOTD <node> <path to DOOR info file> RBBS
- RBBS-PC operation (DORINFO<node>.Def)
-
- A sample command line for a 1-node RBBS-PC system:
- AOTD 1 K:\RBBS RBBS
-
- c. AOTD <node> <path to DOOR info file> QBBS
- QuickBBS operation (DORINFO1.Def)
-
- A sample command line for a QuickBBS system:
- AOTD 1 H:\QUICK QBBS
-
- A sample batch file inclusion for a QuickBBS system:
- :AotD
- J:
- CD \DOOR\AOTD
- AOTD 1 H:\QUICK QBBS
- H:
- CD \QUICK
- goto RelogQuick
-
- d. AOTD <node> <path to DOOR info file> PCBOARD
- PCBoard 12.0 operation (PCBOARD.Sys)
-
- A sample command line for a 1-node PCBoard 12.0 system:
- AOTD 1 F:\PCB PCBOARD
-
- A sample batch file (AOTD) for a 1-node PCBoard 12.0 system:
- J:
- CD \DOOR\AOTD
- AOTD 1 F:\PCB PCBOARD
- F:
- CD \PCB
- Board
-
- e. AOTD <node> <path to DOOR info file> PCBOARD14
- PCBoard 14.0+ operation (PCBOARD.Sys)
-
- A sample command line for a 1-node PCBoard 14.5 system:
- AOTD 1 F:\PCB PCBOARD14
-
- A sample batch file (AOTD) for a 1-node PCBoard 14.5 system:
- J:
- CD \DOOR\AOTD
- AOTD 1 F:\PCB PCBOARD14
- F:
- CD \PCB
- Board
-
- e. AOTD <node> <path to DOOR info file> WILDCAT
- Wildcat! <3.0 operation (CALLINFO.Bbs)
-
- A sample command line for a 1-node Wildcat! 3.0 system:
- AOTD 1 L:\WC WILDCAT
-
- f. AOTD <node> <path to DOOR info file> WWIV
- WWIV operation (CHAIN.Txt)
-
- A sample command line for a WWIV system without the multi-
- node modification:
- AOTD 1 J:\IMS4 WWIV
-
- A sample batch file (AOTD.Bat) for a WWIV system without the
- multi-node modification:
- J:
- CD \DOOR\AOTD
- AOTD 1 J:\IMS4 WWIV
- J:
- CD \IMS4
-
- g. AOTD <node> <path to DOOR info file> GAP
- GAP Communications, Wildcat! 3.0+, or DOOR.SYS operation
- (DOOR.Sys)
-
- A sample command line for a 1-node DOOR.SYS system:
- AOTD 1 G:\TORC GAP
-
- 5. Check the NODES.BBS file to make sure things are properly set up. For
- Mycroft DOORs, NODES.BBS is designed to handle a maximum of four nodes in
- a BBS environment. Each of the four lines in NODES.BBS is merely a COM<x>
- statement, where <x> represents a number from 1-4; each of these lines
- is each of the nodes of your BBS. So, if you run a single-node BBS on COM2:,
- then the file should look like:
-
- COM2 <---- this is the important entry
- COM<x>
- COM<x> These other entries are not important!
- COM<x>
-
- 5a. At this time, AotD/3 does not directly support multinode operation, al-
- though many sysops have called in and told us that they have been able to
- run AotD/3 successfully under a multinode setting.
-
-
-
- ___Assistance for Setting Up AotD/3_________________________________________
- If you have problems setting up AotD/3 (and this should be a very RARE
- situation), then all you have to do is link into the DevNet echo called
- "AOTD".
-
- What?!? You AREN'T connected to DevNet echos? None at all? =(:-<)
-
- Well, here's how you can rectify the situation: Send a NetMail message to
- FN 1:135/105, EN 50:5305/505, or WN 3519, containing the following
- information:
-
- 1. Your real name
- 2. A telephone number that you can be reached at
- 3. Your address
- 4. Your BBS name and node number
- 5. An AreaFix password
- 6. A session password
-
- You will be established as a DevNet participant within 24-72 hours and will
- have all DevNet echos toggled on. Then all you have to do is periodically
- poll FN 1:135/105 for your DevNet EchoMail packets (until we can move things
- onto the backbone)!
-
- NOTE: This does NOT mean that you are a registered AotD/3 sysop! See
- AOTDSYSP.Doc for terms on registering AotD/3. If you enjoy AotD/3, please
- register and reap the wonderful benefits of a registered sysop!
-