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- PowerBBS v4.02b
- ===============
-
- Please read ALL of this file!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- Files
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- powrbbs.rtp Patch for PowerBBS
- file_id.diz Archive description
- readme.txt This file.
-
-
- Who can use this patch?
- -----------------------
- This patch is for registered users of PowerBBS only. If you have
- the shareware version of PowerBBS, you cannot use this patch. It won't work.
-
- This patch will update PowerBBS 4.02a to PowerBBS 4.02b. Because of conflicts
- with the Early Experience Program beta, versions 4.02a and 4.02b will display
- as version 4.01 on the PowerBBS title bar.
-
- This patch will only work on PowerBBS 4.02a. You must have used BBS402.zip and
- BBS402A.zip to patch your registered PowerBBS 4.01 files up to 4.02b. If the
- size of your powrbbs.exe file is 1,001,984, you have the correct version to
- use this patch. If you don't have this version, use the above mentioned patches
- first. If your copy of PowerBBS was mailed after May 16, 1995, then you don't
- need to use this patch.
-
- How to patch your powrbbs.exe
- -----------------------------
-
- Before running this patch, make sure the size of powrbbs.exe is 1,001,984.
-
- 1. Shut down ALL nodes of PowerBBS.
- 2. Exit to DOS.
- 3. Place POWRBBS.RTP in \powrbbs
- 4. Run PATCH POWRBBS.RTP
- 5. Upon a successful patch the size or powrbbs.exe will become 1,002,496.
- 5. Restart Windows
- NOTE: You *must* restart Windows after patching PowerBBS. Though you can run
- the patch from a DOS window, we recommend you do it from DOS since you have
- to restart Windows anyway.
-
- What does this patch do?
- ----------------
- This update fixes a very elusive bug in the PowerBBS protocol that took
- us months to pin down because it was such an odd error that occured only
- on a minority of systems. If your callers were reporting
- Runtime Error 202 (usually at logon), then they will benefit most by
- this update.
-
- This update forces your callers to be use PowerAccess 1.06. Therefore, you
- must be sure to pick up the patches P101-106.ZIP and P105-106.ZIP as well
- as the full PACC106.zip archive.
-
- Place the patches in your RESTRICT directory, usually \powrbbs\restrict. Place
- the full archive wherever you want so long as you update each node in Config
- under PowerAccess.
-
- When a PA 1.01 or 1.05 caller logs on, he will have the choice of downloading
- either the patch or the full archive to bring him up to 1.06. Callers will NOT
- be able to log on to your BBS without PowerAccess 1.06 (unless, of course,
- they are using ANSI).
-
- Features
- --------
- No new features have been added to PowerAccess 1.06 or PowerBBS 4.02b. These
- are merely maintenance updates that fix a few small bugs. You and your callers
- may discover that some PowerAccess screens seem to have features that are
- not enabled yet such as the Download Count on the File Description screen.
- Those features will be enabled with PowerBBS 4.1. We chose to set up PowerAccess
- to be able to use those features so that sysops running the PowerBBS 4.1 Early
- Experience Program (EEP) will not need to have use different versions of
- PowerAccess. If you are registered owner of the PowerSuite, contact Russell
- Frey on the Support BBS (not Internet) for more information about the EEP).
-
- PACC106.ZIP
- -----------
- Please do NOT try to create your own PowerAccess 1.06 archive using your copy
- of the patched Powracc.exe file. The whole install program has been rewritten
- so that PowerAccess will fit on a single 3.5" HD floppy disk. Please download
- the full archive and use that one on your system.
-
- PowerBBS for Windows (c)1995 by Russell Frey