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- Hints,Tips and Wrinkles on using FXBULL the Flexible Bulletin Generator.
-
- 1) After each caller leaves the system generate the last callers bulletin
- and copy it into welcome.asc and welcome.ans. This gives users logging on
- an immediate impression of just what a busy system you run!
-
- 2) If generating the last caller bulletin above only generate that bulletin
- (ie. comment out all those other nice bulletins. They take TIME to produce).
-
- 3) Use different configuration files and copy them onto FXBULL.CFG. This
- way you can control what bulletins are created when (I make most of mine
- in the midnight event). You can also use this for changing the colours on
- a daily basis. or WHY.
-
- 4) Generate a system status report for yourself. My new users get a security
- level of 18 when they complete the questionairre. I generate Bulletin 2 (with
- SECLEVEL 18) and copy it into SEC1000.* (my ra security level is 1000). This
- way I can see who I should be thinking about upgrading every time I log on.
- If you use the BULLTERM with the ^A you could copy many bulletins together
- to give a full report available each time you log on. eg copy bull2.ans +
- bull15.ans + bull13.ans sec1000.ans
-
- 5) Surprise bulletins! Make a bulletin of TOP TROFFERS and have it on
- the files menu. If the users security level has been adjusted to a low
- level you can make the "Download" key display the troffers bulletin instead.
- Just how unsubtle do you want to be ?
- eg.
-
- SEC Type Key Data
- 21 32 D (Download file)
- 20 45 D BULL5 (Display asc/ans file with pause)
-
- There's a hundred and one ways to use this bulletin generator. If you think
- of some pretty neat ones contact me and i'll include them in this document.
-
- And now for another beer...
-
- That's an idea... A bulletin of top beer drinkers... Hmmmmm.
-
- Mark Alexander.
- London, 1991.