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 ARJBAN V1.01           (C) 1991 Andreas Geißler, Merlin's Cathedral (2:245/62)
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       »»» SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THIS LITTLE TOOL FOR SYSOP OF RA-BBS «««
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 WARRANTY : I only guarantee this program wasting space on your holy harddisk.
            I do not take care of any errors this program causes on your com-
            puter hardware and everything involved to it.
            If you loose data on your harddisk, you're on aour own.


 COPYRIGHT: Andreas Geissler 1991.
            This program is public domain, which means, that everyone is allowed
            to use it as long as he likes to.
            Please share this program with your friends, as long as no charge is
            taken for the copy exceedig the costs of the floppy disk.



 ARJBAN - WHY AND WHAT FOR :

 ARJBAN is made to append the individual BBS-Logo to all new FILES.
 Well, that does not seem to be very special since the ARJ program is able to
 append BANNER-texts to any .ARJ archive itself.
 The problem was, that the selection of new files was not so easy, thus I had
 to append the BANNER-text to all files of any area to get the new ones labeled
 and that costs a lot of time and causes disk-fragmentation because all files
 are rebuild new.

 ARJBAN is more - it is a very comfortable way to add a BANNER-text to files
 which are junger than a certain number of days.
 For example you can tell ARJBAN to add the bannertext to all files, which are
 not older than one day, so all new files get their bannertext and the old
 ones are not touched.

 Further you can declare a banner for every single file-area, if you like to.
 That gives an individual touch for files of certain areas.

 ARJBAN - THE INSTALLATION OF THE PROGRAM :

 The installation is very easy. Just call ARJBAN.EXE with the parameter
 INSTALL. Example : ARJBAN INSTALL
 Then you get the following Installation Window :

    ╒════════════════════════ INSTALLATION MENUE ════════════════════════╕
    │                                                                    │
    │ <F1> : PATH AND FILENAME OF FILES.RA     : C:\RA\FILES.RA          │
    │                                                                    │
    │ <F2> : FILENAME OF AN ASCII-EDITOR       : Q                       │
    │                                                                    │
    │ <F3> : FILENAME OF AN ASCII-LISTER       : LIST                    │
    │                                                                    │
    │ +/-  : AGE (IN DAYS) OF FILES TO WORK ON : 001                     │
    │                                                                    │
    │ <F4> : CHANGE BANNER DEFINITION FOR SPECIFIC FILE AREAS            │
    │                                                                    │
    ╘════════════════════════ PRESS <ESC> TO END ════════════════════════╛

 <F1> : Enter the PATH and FILENAME of your FILES.RA file (see example)
 <F2> : Enter a name of your favorite ASCII-Editor (see example)
 <F3> : Enter a name of your favorite ASCII-LISTER (see example)
 +/-  : increase or decrease the number of days a program may reach to be
        modified.
 <F4> : Open the window, in which you can enter the different BANNER-definitions

 I think, these little hints should be enought to let you know, how to manage
 this.

 After pressing <F4> you get a Window like this :

 ┌───────────────────────── ARJBAN - BANNER DEFINITION ───────────────────────┐
 │   NAME OF RA-FILEAREA            │ PATH AND NAME OF HEADER TEXTFILE        │
 ├──────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────┤
 │ ### DEFAULT TEXTFILE ###········   F:\RA\RASYS\TEXTE\WERBUNG.TXT           │
 │ Neue Uploads····················                                           │
 │ AKTUELLE DOWNLOADS DES SYSOPS···   F:\TXT\DL-SYS.TXT                       │
 │ Mailer-requests·················                                           │
 │ TOOLS - PACKER··················                                           │
 │ TOOLS - VIRUS···················                                           │
 │ TOOLS - DISK····················                                           │
 │ TOOLS - PRINTER·················                                           │
 │ TOOLS - NETWORK·················                                           │
 │ TOOLS - SYSTEST·················                                           │
 │ TOOLS - MISC····················                                           │
 │ DATA - NORTON GUIDES············                                           │
 │ DATA - FILELISTS················                                           │
 │ DATA - MISC. - TEXT·············                                           │
 └─────────────────────────────── END WITH <ESC> ─────────────────────────────┘

 The DEFAULT TEXTFILE is made for entering a BANER-file which is taken, if no
 other filename is entered in order not to force you to enter a filename for
 EVERY area. If you like to use another BANNER-text, just enter the name in
 the row of the area you like.

 PRESSING <RETURN> lets you change the PATH AND NAME of the BANNER-File

 <ALT-V> lets you VIEW the declared FILE (just to prove the correct filename)
         This refers to the ASCII-LISTER program.

 <ALT-E> allowes to modify the declared BANNER-textfile
         This refers to the declared ASCII-EDITOR


 I think, that's all for this little program. If you like this little tool
 and use it, please be so kind to send me a netmail:

 My Adress (FidoNet) : Andreas Geissler, 2:245/62