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- BBSList v1.40
- Copyright (c) 1995 by
- Phillip Powers
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
- Released: 04-19-95
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- Introduction
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Welcome to BBSList! This is a product that took a lot of time and effort
- to produce. It is one of the finest BBS Lister's out there! It has some
- features that none other has, like a Built In Split Screen Chat and Remote
- Sysop Functions! And it takes almost no time to install!
-
- Sure took long enough!
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- I like to apologize for the time it took for me to get this version out to
- you. My modem broke and it took me a while to write and test this without
- one. Special thanks go out to Gil Dupuis and Eric Staufer for helping me test
- this and for putting up with the long waiting time between Beta versions.
-
- Program Disclaimer
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- By using this program, you agree that you will not hold me, Phillip Powers,
- responsible for any damage to your system. Damage includes but is not limited
- to, money lost due to downtime, hardware failure, and system
- incompatibilities.
-
- This program is only guarranteed to take up space. There is no other
- guarantee, warranty, or agreement associated with it.
-
-
- Files in the Archive
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This is a list of the files in the Original Archive:
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- BBSLIST.EXE - Actual BBS Listing Door
- BBSCONF.EXE - Configure's BBSList
- 120TO130.EXE - Conversion program to convert v1.2x files to v1.30 files
- 130TO140.EXE - Conversion program to convert v1.3x files to v1.40 files
- BBSLIST.DOC - This File
- CONTROL.DAT - File that has cuss words in it that can't be used in entries
- (Contains a list of about 10 cuss words now)
- PROTO.EXE - Configure's Protocols
- REGISTER.FRM - Registration Form
- OFFER.TXT - Source Code offer (See Last part of this file for more info)
- HELP.ANS - Online Help File in ANSI Form
- HELP.ASC - Online Help File in ASCII Form
- HISTORY.BBS - BBSList History File
- FILE_ID.DIZ - Archive description
- FORMAT.DAT - File that contains the current Text List format
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- This is a list of files BBSList can make:
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- BBSLIST.CFG - Configuration File
- PROTOCOL.CFG - Protocol File
- BBSBASE.DAT - BBS Database
- SYSOPS.CTL - Text List of People with Sysop Abilities
- OKAY.DAT - Text List of People that can add another BBS
- BBSLIST.TXT - BBS Listing in a text form (For Downloading)
- BBSLIST.REG - Registration key when you Register BBSList
-
- If you don't have the files that should have been in the original archive,
- make sure you have an authentic version of BBSList!
-
-
- What's New!!
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- A lot of really neat new features have been added! Here are the MAJOR
- differenced:
-
- -Color Configurable-
- The color are now configurable!Just run BBSCONF and choose the function for
- changing colors. This will take you to a *User Friendly* Color config area.
- When you are changing colors, press Up/Down arrows to change what you are
- editing, and Left/Right arrows to change the actual colors.
-
- -Cuss Screener-
- There is now an optional cuss editor. If you want to screen your entries,
- set the Check for Cussing option in BBSCONF to Yes. Then make sure you have
- a file called CONTROL.DAT, which contains the words that can not be used.
-
- -Configurable Text List Format-
- You can now change what your BBSLIST.TXT looks like. Choose the Change
- Text List Format in BBSCONF.
-
- Installation
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Installation for BBSList is very simple. First, copy all of your BBSList
- files to its own sub-directory. Then run BBSCONF.EXE to enter the info
- about your BBS and BBSList options. If you want to set-up the Download
- option, run PROTO.EXE (See Below). Once you've gotten that done, BBSList
- is installed!
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- Starting BBSList
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- BBSList Supports these types of drop files:
- DOOR.SYS
- DORINFO1.DEF
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- You can start BBSList in two ways: First, you can start it with one of the
- drop files. Here is a common batch file to do this:
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- @Echo off
- Copy Door.Sys c:\ra\bbslist
- cd\ra\bbslist
- bbslist.exe
- cd\ra
- exit
-
- You can do it this way, or you can do it with a command line:
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- BBSLIST.EXE <First Name> <Last Name> <Security Level> <Time Left>
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- There is no advatage to which method you use.
-
-
- Multi-Node Support
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- BBSList has FULL MULTI-NODE SUPPORT! This means you can load it as many
- times as you want without any problems! And there is no extra work!
- However, you MUST use dropfiles, not the command line! All you have to
- do is copy the new dropfile over the existing dropfile! That's all!
- BBSList has been tested with it loaded 4 times, and there were no
- problems at all!
-
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- Remote Sysop Functions
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- To go to the Remote Sysop Menu of BBSList, type ";" from the Main
- Screen. Your security must be equal to or higher than the Sysop Security
- you supplied in BBSCONF. This will take you to another menu where you
- have more options to choose from. Here is a description for each of these
- options:
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- 1. DELETE <No> - This deleted BBS Number <no>. If you do not supply a
- number, it will prompt you for the bbs you want to delete
- and then delete it.
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- 2. DELALL - This allows you to start with a fresh BBS List. It will
- first make sure you want to delete all the BBS, and if you
- say yes, you WILL NOT be able to get any BBS Info back!
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- 3. EDIT - Allows you to Edit a BBS by <no>. It differs from the Main
- Menu EDIT by letting you edit ANY BBS, not just one you
- entered. If you do not supply <no>, it will prompt you.
-
- 4. VALIDATE <User> - This command puts <User> in the OKAY.DAT file. If a
- user is found in this file, they may enter one more
- BBS to the database. (Someone with Sysop Security can
- enter as many BBS' as they want)
-
- 5. SYSGRANT <User> - Puts <user> in the SYSOPS.CTL. Anyone in this file has
- complete sysop access. This means they can get in the
- Sysop Menu and Enter as many BBS' as they want.
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- 6. QUIT - Takes you back to the Main Screen.
-
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- Sysop Keys
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- Here is a listing of all the Sysop Keys available to you while a user is
- BBSList:
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- Alt-C - If the User has Ansi, it takes you into the BUILT IN SPLIT SCREEN
- CHAT! If the user does not have ansi, it takes you into the line
- chat. While in chat, You can type F1 to toggle between chat modes.
-
- Alt-D - Tells the User they are Out Of Time and dumps them back to the BBS.
-
- Alt-J - Jumps to DOS, Type EXIT to Return to BBSList
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- Alt-S - Toggles Snoop Mode On/Off. If Snoop is on, it clears the screen
- and directs all output to the modem and not to your monitor. If
- Snoop is Off, it directs output to the modem and your monitor.
-
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- Downloading
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- BBSList has a built-in download procedure. To use this, type "D" from the
- Main Menu. If you haven't defined any protocols (See Below) this feature
- will be disabled.
-
- PROTO.EXE
- ~~~~~~~~~
- There is a program in the BBSList archive called PROTO.EXE. This is a
- utility for the download part of BBSList. Since BBSList has no internal
- File Protocol support, you must define an external file protocol. To do
- this:
-
- 1. Go into PROTO.EXE and type the Number of the Protocol you want to edit.
- 2. Enter the Protocol Name.
- 3. Enter the Command Line. This can be a batch file or an EXE File. On the
- Command Line, you can use these Directives:
- *P - Current Com Port
- *B - Current Baud Rate
- *L - Short for BBSLIST.TXT
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- BBSLIST.TXT
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- This is a readable text file BBSList makes whenever a user downloads the
- BBS listing or exits BBSList. If you don't have an external protocol or
- you just don't like the built-in download, you can add a line to your batch
- file to copy this file to a file area on your regular BBS. You can edit
- the format of this file with BBSCONF.
-
- Registration
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- BBSList is Shareware. This means you can try it out for a period of 30
- days. If you like it and would like to keep using it, please send in the
- small registration fee. Registering entitles you to many things. It
- gives you the right to use it for as long as you wish and takes away the
- short pauses in the program. It also entitles you to all future versions
- of BBSList for Free! To Register, all you need to do is send a $10 check
- or money order along with the registration form (Included in the BBSList
- archive). The key will be sent to you through the mail on a 3.5" floppy
- disk along with the current version of BBSList. I GUARANTEE YOU YOUR KEY
- WILL BE MAILED WITHIN A WEEK OF ITS ARRIVAL TO ME! I *DO NOT* GUARANTEE THERE
- WILL BE ANY FUTURE VERSIONS!
-
- Source Code
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- BBSList compiles under Turbo Pascal 7.0.
- I am seriously considering selling the source code for BBSLIST. I have not
- had a whole lot of time to work on this lately and I think it should be kept
- up. I would sell it on the follow conditions:
- * I (Phillip Powers) would get credit for writing the original BBSList.
- * The name (BBSList) will stay the same.
- * The money is right. (Well, it wouldn't be too high, But I'm not going to
- sell it for $20!)
- * Everything else is up to you!
-
- There is a file called OFFER.TXT in the archive. If you would like to make
- an offer, please mail this to me.
-
- Note to those who have registered
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- THANK YOU! Just keep on using your current BBSLIST.KEY file!
-
- Beta Team / Distribution List
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- ┌─────────────┬──────────────────────┬──────────────┬────────────┬───────────┐
- │Name: │BBS Name / Location: │Phone #: │ FidoNet # │ Max Baud │
- ├─────────────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────┼───────────┤
- │Eric Staufer │The Concession Stand │407-569-6568 │1:374/6568 │28800bps │
- │ │Vero Beach, FL USA │ │ │ │
- ├─────────────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────┼───────────┤
- │Gil Dupuis │Gil's PC │819-689-5465 │1:12/60 │28800bps │
- │ │Chapeau, QC CANADA │ │ │ │
- └─────────────┴──────────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────┴───────────┘
-
- If you are interested in becoming a Beta Member for this program and other
- Online programs I make, include it in the Comments part of the Reg. Form.
-
- Support
- ~~~~~~~
- For always the LATEST versions of BBSLIST, you can Freq the magic name
- "BBSLIST" <without the quotes> from the beta sites listed above.
-
- If you have any questions, please contact me in the RA_UTIL echo.
-
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- Thanks for Using BBSLIST!!
-