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- 10/20/91
-
- The <T> command on the main menu has been changed. <T> will now
- display the top 45 download report. The time information stuff has
- been moved to the ? command.
-
- Some command line parameters have changed for aviewcom. The node # is now %9.
- %8 is now for the connect baudrate. I removed the -r%8 from the aviewcom
- command line and replaced it with just %8. CdCom will add the -r to the
- connect baudrate. This is done so it can also lock downloads (-d) if the
- users security is insufficient to download in the program (specified by
- cdcom.def). So if they are allowed to download from cdcom, it will pass
- -rbaudrate to %8, if not it passes -d to %8 so they cannot download. If
- you just don't want to allow downloads from aviewcom, then remove the %8
- parameter and replace it with -d.
-
- Sept 30, 1991
-
- With this release of CdCom for shareware disks other than pc-sig I have
- attempted to modify the door so that it can work with practically any
- cdrom disk that has file category type description files. By this I mean
- files.bbs, DIR#, etc listings that have file descriptions broken down into
- categories (like games, utils, communications, etc). Most of the newer disks
- do have these kind of listings so this should pose no problems. These listings
- are then merged into a alphabetically sorted master file listing for easier
- searching for the door. Some disks like rbbs-in-a-box already come with this
- listing, and are ready to run. See the makexrf.doc for more details. However
- some of the older disks do not follow this format, and you will need to do some
- work in order to get whatever listings you have into the proper format. For
- some of these disks like this that I have come into contact with I wrote
- separate conversion utilities whose basic source code is included in the
- configuration zip file. These are the shareware carousel disks and the
- programmers rom disk. If you are having difficulties converting your
- descriptions then feel free to contact me and we can work it out hopefully.
- Any convert.bas files I release for these disks will work in the qbasic.exe
- basic interpreter that comes with dos 5.0 (at least I hope to keep it that
- way) to keep file sizes down. This is under the assumption that most of
- you have dos 5.0 also. You can contact me if you need a compiled (EXE)
- version and I will provide it for you.
-
- For those who have run the door before, this release marks the end of
- separate releases of the door for each disk. All hardcoded items (which
- was mostly just the information on the description files) are now located
- in cdcom.def. The description files are the most difficult part, the actual
- locating of the file and downloading was common between all disks anyways.
- Be sure to look at the cdcom.doc file at the new cdcom.def lines. I have
- also added the following features from the last release:
-
- 1: internal colors
- 2: ability to customize menus with information from callinfo.bbs (see cdcom.doc)
- 3: ratio checking (dl/ul only)
- 4: information bar on bottom of screen, scrolled in window.
- 5: plus fixed a few bugs that were brought to my attention
- 6: maintaining of a user file (cdcom.usr) will users dl's and dlkb. (see doc's)
-
- All future releases of the door (bug fixes also) will always go by the name
- CDCOM.ZIP, although I may need to start using version numbers now. We'll
- see how this goes. I will also post new configuration files for disks as
- I come across them, and I encourage you to upload any new ones that you may
- come up with for your disk. You can see what files I included in the sample
- configuration files to get an idea of what is needed for each disk. If you
- find problems with the configuration files I provided please let me know.
- I do not have most of the disks that are listed there so I was not able to
- test all of them. I only tested the ones I had. But they should work fine
- as the configuration files are quite simple I think. At any rate let
- me know what you think, and I'm always open to new ideas for the door, and
- I'll code them in when I have the time.
-
- Eric
-
-
-
- This new release will greatly simplify things for me as now I only have to
- release one program instead of updating 15 zip files each time I fix some
- bugs. I hope it works well for you.