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- If your updating from v3.09 to 3.10
-
- See the section on NEWQUOTE.
-
- Read the sections about FastLink & EDorPurg.
-
- See the new parameter MAXLINELENGTH.
-
- We have support for more BBS systems, check to see if yours is not
- included.
-
- Very Important! --- v3.08 ==> v3.09 or 3.10
-
- (v3.09) I suggest that because of the changes you perform the upgrade as
- follows:
-
- 1. Create a new separate directory to hold your current EchoDor setup.
- 2. Copy the entire current setup into this holding directory.
- 3. Erase all files from your old EchoDor current directory.
- 4. Unarchive EchoDor v3.09 into the current setup directory (should be
- empty now).
- 5. Copy back from the holding directory the following files:
-
- EchoDor.Ctl (and any other versions - EchoDor1.Ctl ...)
- DoorDriv.Ctl (and any other versions - DoorDri0.Ctl ...)
- EchoUser.BBS (or what ever name your using for the user file)
- The UserArea & SysopArea display files if you have used these.
- Any menu files that you have changed. If you have changed the
- main menu file, you will have to add the [U]ser Option and
- remove F, G, Y, X options as they have been moved to the
- new USER menu.
- Run the EchoUCnv program (see below).
- Test out the new version.
- Don't forget to copy EchoUtil to where ever it has to be! If you
- run the old EchoUtil with the new user file format, all you'll
- have left is a mess!
-
- (v3.09) When upgrading from v3.08 or v3.07 to v3.09 you must run the
- EchoUCnv.Exe program to convert the user file from the older format to
- the new v3.09 format. If you fail to do this you will have more
- problems that I care to think about.
-
- When you run EchoUCnv.exe it will first rename your existing EchoUser.BBS
- file to EchoUser.Bak file. It will then create a new EchoUser.BBS file.
-
- EchoUCnv.Exe will ask one question, it will ask if you want user hotkeys
- to be set on. Answer Y or N. Users may turn this option on or off
- using the User Preferences menu selection.
-
- If your user file is not called EchoUser.BBS run EchoUCnv.Exe as:
-
- EchoUCnv <oldfile> <newfile>
-
- (v3.09) You MUST replace your EchoUtil.Exe with the new v3.09 (!!!!)
- EchoUtil.Exe contained in the archive. This has to do with the new user
- file. If you followed the above recomended procedure the new
- EchoUtil.Exe will be in the default EchoDor directory. If you need to
- move EchoUtil.Exe to another spot, do it now!
-
- (v3.08) When upgrading from v3.07 the EchoDor.Ctl file must be altered.
- The first and most important thing that must be done is you must remove the
- quotes from the file (" & '). This was origionally done for lines like the
- MAIN MENU command and such. Just remove the quotes. Also, if you used '' in
- the origin line, replace the double '' with a single '.
-
- (v3.08) Some of the color control commands have been moved from the EchoDor.Ctl
- file to the DoorDriv.Ctl file. The following commands are no longer used in
- the EchoDor.Ctl file:
-
- DefaultFore (ForeGround in DoorDriv.Ctl)
- PromptColor
- HighLightColor
-
- The colors which have been specified in the DoorDriv.Ctl file included in this
- archive will give the same colors as the origional EchoDor gave. I suggest you
- remove the above commands from your EchoDor.Ctl file and modify DoorDriv.Ctl
- file included in the archive.
-
- (v3.08) The name of the batch file written by EchoDor for performing downloads
- has been changed from EchoDlD#.Bat to EchoEX#.Bat where '#' is the node number.
-
- (v3.08) There are new features in the mail packing system. Check these out in
- the docs.
-
- (v3.08) Be sure to read the section in the documentation that lists what has
- been changed or corrected.
-
- (v3.08) We have made changes to the existing help files.
-
- (v3.08) Registered users - we now have a special nodelist compiler which
- will allow users of EchoDor to run without the very LARGE version 6 node-
- list files. This compiler uses the "raw" nodelist file (just like your
- other nodelist compiler); however, the only files built are the index files
- required to locate entries in the "raw" nodelist file. A compile of the
- NODELIST.025 file required an additional 180k of disk space plus the size
- of the "raw" file. Support for version 6 nodelists still exist.
-
- (v3.07) If you didn't catch it in the prior version, the maintenance option
- of EchoDor has been removed. Maintenance is now performed by EchoUtil.
- The command is exactly the same -- EchoUtil /M.
-
- (v3.07) The MINTIME & MAXUSERTIME in the EchoDor.Ctl file have been replaced
- with the commands MINTIME & MAXTIME in the DoorDriv.Ctl file. If you used
- either of these commands you should rename and relocate them into the
- doordriv.ctl file.
-
- RMc
-