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- POPDOOR!
-
- The Remote Access Most Popular DOOR Lister
-
- Written and Designed By Steven R. Hammond
- The ICE BBS! (416)471-1310
- Fido-net 1:250/505
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-
- Introduction:
-
- The program came about one day while I was setting up some
- program that listed a list of best message writers etc, I thought
- it would be neat if there was something for the most popular door.
- Users could then play the one that is the most popular and the
- sysop could see which ones are just wasting space.
-
- All the programs that I write are in protest of something
- called Crippleware. This is something I can not agree with. To
- write simple utilities like this one it only takes a small grasp of
- some compilable langauge and a bit of imagination. I hate when
- people write something that took them 2 hours and then cripple it
- and except us to pay for it. Put it in a store if you want us to
- buy it. I however agree with the Shareware concept. Remote Access
- took hundreds of hours to write and many people are responsible for
- its existence and its only 40 bucks and its not crippled.
-
- People like Alan Davenport the author of Yankee Trader, Trade
- Wars, Story Door, and more should be made a hero. Thousands of
- Hours of work went into Yankee Trader and he asks nothing in return
- but for you to enjoy it. The irony of it all is that Yankee Trader
- is the best and most popular game in the BBS world beating all
- Crippled Doors and Shareware doors. This is someone I model my code
- after. FREEWARE.
-
- If you find a program that you like, and its crippled or
- shareware and it seems to be a simple program let me know and I
- might just write you the program for free. Together we can beat
- greedy shareware programmers.
-
- Whether you agree with me or not, please enjoy my programs,
- Its my gift to a hobby that has given me so much. (what a geek)
-
- Have fun.
-
- Payment:
-
- The only payment I request for this is for you as a sysop to
- send me netmail(Which would cost only pennies for a medium sized
- message from anywhere in the world!). I want no money, no nothing,
- I just want to see where this gets. If you have no means of sending
- me net mail, drop a postcard in the mail and send it to
-
- Steven Hammond
- 25 Princess St
- Markham, Ontario, Canada
- L3P 1K4
- (This would cost very little too!)
-
- Basically what I'm saying is, I want my ego inflated. <grin>
-
-
- Support:
-
- If you have any troubles with POPDOOR, write down in detail
- the problem that is occurring, and netmail my bbs with this
- information, I will assess the problem and correct it if necessary
- and release a updated version and send a copy directly to your bbs.
-
- Suggestions:
-
- If you have any suggestions that you think would add to
- POPDOOR's usability, forward these comments also to my bbs via
- netmail.
-
- Legalities
-
- This software and it's documentation is Copyright 1990 by
- Steven Hammond, All Rights are Reserved. By Executing this program
- you agree with this. If you do not, then don't run it!
- You use this software at your own risk, any damage to files or
- software or hardware are not my fault. If you do not want to agree
- with this also then don't execute the code!
-
- Please, don't modify the code, I'm licensing it to you for
- free anyways!
-
- Any names which are not mine are copyright by their respectful
- owners except for Crippleware which is copyrighted by the "I'm a
- real jerk of a person, Inc."
-
- The ZIP.
-
- The original zip contained:
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- POPDOOR.EXE - the code
- POPDOOR.DOC - the documentation
- POPDOOR.CFG - Sample Configuration
- WHATNEW.??? - Whats new for this version ???.
-
- Any Archive containing anything else didn't come from my bbs.
-
- Ok, now on to the documentation.
- Popdoor Limits
-
- The maximum number of Doors Popdoor handles is 100. If I find
- that a lot or who's kidding who one sysop says it needs more I will
- change it to be defined by POPDOOR.CFG.
-
- The Maximum number of Users popdoor handles is 1000. This
- should be enough.
-
- First off, unzip the archive where ever you want. I place it
- in its own directory, but its up to you.
-
- Then type this in.
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- POPDOOR /I
-
- This initializes the POPDOOR.DAT file, and obviously also
- creates it. It also creates a POPUSER.DAT file.
-
- Popdoor Will read the type of log you are using from RACONFIG
- file. Whether it is OPUS or FrontDoor It does not matter. Make sure
- that no other Logs are defined as the same log file. Sometimes
- Sysops have frontdoor or filedoor using the same log file. It
- shouldn't create a problem but just to be sure.
-
- Then load up your favourite editor and edit the POPDOOR.CFG
- file.
-
- Valid lines in the POPDOOR.CFG file are
-
- ; - when placed at the start of a line means text following it
- is simply a remark made by you or me.
-
- SYSTEMPATH - This is the FULL PATH, (NO FILE NAME) to your
- remote access config file (CONFIG.RA). E.g. C:\RA\ or D:\ICEBBS\.
- Popdoor get the following information from the Raconfig file.
- Gets the Path to the TEXT File Directory, Gets the Sysop Name,
- Gets the BBS name, Gets the flag that Excludes or Includes the
- Sysop in Listings.
-
- LOGFILE - this is the FULL PATH and FULL NAME of the Remote
- Access log file. E.g. C:\RA\RA.LOG or C:\MYBBS\SYSTEM.LOG
-
- USERS - This goes along with the POPUSER, if nothing is
- entered or this is not put in the config file POPDOOR will default
- to the top 15 users. E.g. USERS 10 or USERS 15 or USERS 20
-
- CLEARSCREEN - This is a YES or NO Answer anything else will be
- ignored and a YES will be defaulted. This flag simply tells popdoor
- whether you want a clearscreen code to be placed in the POPDOOR
- files and the POPUSER files.
-
- ENTER - This is a YES or NO Answer anything else will be
- ignored and a YES will be defaulted. This flag tells popdoor
- whether you want a 'Press ENTER to Continue' placed at the bottom
- of the POPDOOR and the POPUSER files.
-
- DOORNAME - This is the name of a door that your bbs is
- running, the way you want it to appear in the popfile. e.g. Yankee
- Trader or Global Warfare.
-
- DOORLOG - * * * * Important * * * *
-
- This MUST FOLLOW the DOORNAME command in the Config
- file. This contains the unique appearance in the log file of the
- DOORNAME previous to it. e.g. Errorlevel 30 or GWF.BAT.
-
- An example of this would be.
-
- DOORNAME Yankee Trader
- DOORLOG Errorlevel 30
-
- DOORNAME Global Warfare
- DOORLOG Gwf.bat
-
- Don't worry about being upper or lower case, POPDOOR is NOT
- case sensitive.
-
- If you are still lost, take a look at the sample configuration
- file I send along with POPDOOR, and you'll figure it out.
-
- If you add a DOOR after you've already started popdoor, IT
- MUST GO AT THE END of POPDOOR.CFG after all the other ones you've
- already put in POPDOOR.CFG.
-
- To delete a door, CHANGE THE NAME OF IT IN THE POPDOOR.CFG
- file to NONE and the LOGFILE to something that will never be found
- in the log file, like 123456789 or NOTHING or ZZZZZZZ etc.
-
- When you ADD a DOOR and you have a NONE somewhere in the
- POPDOOR.cfg file, simply use this space to add the new door instead
- of putting it at the end but either way will add the door to the
- list.
-
- ONCE POPDOOR HAS BEEN STARTED YOU MUST NOT CHANGE THE ORDER OF
- THE DOORS IN THE POPDOOR CONFIG FILE.
-
- If you are running a multi-line bbs, each line has its own log
- file. You can enter the name of the log file from the command line.
- Like this.
-
- POPDOOR C:\RA\LINE1\SYSTEM.LOG
- or
- POPDOOR c:\RA\LINE2\SYSTEM.LOG
-
- Otherwise popdoor will default to the name of the log file in
- the popdoor.cfg file. Also for MULTI LINE bbs, MAKE SURE THAT
- POPDOOR NEVER RUNS on 2 LINES AT THE SAME TIME. Popdoor is not
- multi task aware. Some sysops run popdoor after a user logs off. I
- would not recommend this on multi line bbs system.
-
- I hope you enjoy this utility and look for future
- enhancements.
-
- Steven Hammond
- 1:250/505
- (416)471-1310
- Sysop - Me
-
- I would like to thank the following BBS's for beta testing and
- putting up with all the changes I do.
-
- Buckingham Palace
- 1:123/22
- (901)873-0860
- Sysop - Kerry Buckingham
-
- The Intoxicated BBS
- 1:250/720
- (416)630-7850
- Sysop - Mark Bylok
-
-
- To receive the latest version of POPDOOR request the MAGIC
- WORD - POPDOOR - from anyone of the bbs's listed above.
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