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- RAP-EDIT is a sysop utility that allows you to edit the userfiles
- associated with the RemoteAccess Pub. You can edit *ALL* of this data:
- this is a somewhat powerful program in that respect so care should be
- taken that you don't fry your files. The only dummy-proofing that
- exists is as follows:
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- Handles are saved back in Capitalized format.
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- User names are saved back in ALLCAPS format.
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- You are prompted to confirm a record DELete.
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- That's about it. Otherwise, it's a pretty straightforward user
- interface. The following keys will work:
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- PGUP, PGDN, HOME, and END allow you to move through the file from record
- #1 to record #300. The CURSOR keys allow you to move from field to
- field within each record (there are 20 fields). Once you've selected
- the piece of information you wish to edit, press ENTER. You are now in
- EDIT MODE and can edit the information in that field. Standard editing
- keys and rules apply, but pressing ESCape will abort the changes.
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- Once you hit ENTER, your work is saved immediately to disk.
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- Pressing DEL on any record (outside of EDIT MODE) will activate user
- DELETION. You will be asked to confirm whether or not you really,
- really wanna do that. Selecting "y" will delete the user, any other key
- will abort the deletion.
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- Pressing ESC will quit RAP-EDIT.
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- Multi-line operation: I've not done EXTENSIVE testing but RAP-EDIT
- should work just fine even if users are online and accessing the RAP
- files. Be aware, though, that editing the user record of any user that
- is CURRENTLY ONLINE is rather pointless: when that user logs off, RAP
- will re-save their record based on what RAP has in memory, which will
- overwrite any changes you make.
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- Oh, and by the way... you have to run RAPEDIT.EXE while in the RAP
- subdirectory. It assumes all the workfiles are in the current
- directory...
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- Revisions:
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- V1.01 - 50-line support always worked but now 43-line support has been
- added for you EGA users.
- - Sped up disk access. I never noticed how slow it was because my
- development machine is a '486/33 but it REALLY chugged along on
- the '286 I use here as a server (no kidding). Changed some
- logic around and made things loads more efficient.
- - Buglet: you could not ADD a user from RAPEDIT. Now you can.
- You can also delete one by blanking every field... but no point
- in doing that when you can just press the DEL key, right?
- - Changed the color scheme to something a little less blinding.
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- V1.00 - Initial release.
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