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- P I C K - O N E
- v2.01
- Written by JL Enterprizing Software (c) 1994
- This program is public domain
- no fee or payment for use.
-
- This program is presented AS IS!! No guarantee or
- warranty of any kind except to take up disk space.
-
- This program will take a list of screens and select
- a screen at random for the list. Then copy and
- rename the selected file to any other directory
- and file name.
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- Use this to generate randomly selected screens
- for your welcome screens or to randomly select
- a screen for your bluewave reader :)
-
- You can use this program with different configuration files
- for different applications.
-
- Limits are: no more than 500 screens in the random selections
-
- Pick-One will also check for the existance of ASC and AVT
- screens that may exist in the same directory as the selected
- screen with the same name. If one or both are present then
- they too will be copied and named <outputfile>.ASC and/or
- <outputfile>.AVT. Confused? All this means is that the AVT
- and ASC screens will also be copied and moved IF they are
- there.
-
- You must have a configuration file to run Pick-One. The
- configuration file structure is as follows:
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- First Line: Path and name of the output file
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- Next Lines up to 500:Path and names of files that you want
- to use for selections. Pick-One will
- use this list of file names to randomly
- select one to be copyied and renamed to
- the output file.
-
- A sample configuration file is included with this pack that
- you can edit and use.
-
- Thats it!! Just call Pick-One from your BBS batch file when
- ever you want a new screen selected.
-
- Address your comments to: John Lewis
- Back Woods BBS
- Fido 1:170/702
- 1:170/1
- (918) 757-4162
-
- v1.04 First release, tried to make it simple and quick.
-
- v1.05 Added larger buffers to speed up copy and move routines.
- Fixed bug that in error routine that would wait for a
- key press before continueing, real annoying when running
- from a batch file, kinda hangs up the board all day. :)
-
- v1.06 Fixed bug in *.AVT screens. For some reason avitar
- screens will not copy correctly when using sequential
- access files. Rewrote file copying and renaming routines
- to binary file access, also added routine to change output
- file date and time stamp to that of the orginal.
-
- v2.01 Added routines to clean out the old screens before
- copying. Seems that if there were mixed sceens to choose
- from (some with Avatar and Ascii and some with only Ansi)
- the old Avatar and Ascii screens were remaining if the
- newly selected screen was only Ansi. Also fixed problem
- if target file didnot exist, like at startup.
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- ** Pick-1 was written using PDS v7.1 **
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