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- Dirty Wall v2.4 Documentation
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- Welcome to Dirty Wall v2.4
-
- What is Dirty Wall?: Totally FREE Wall door! It's the only one that looks
- like a real wall!
-
- Why is it free?: Why should i charge for a program i wrote in a cpl of hours
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- What's new from v2.3?: read whatsnew.doc
-
- I wrote the first part of this door (the poster routine) in power basic about
- one and a half year ago. It used RA questionares as interface. I took that
- part and changed it sligtly. then I remade the interface in C and dirty wall
- v2.0 came out ... i never released the first version ...
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- FEATURES!
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- Looks like real wall
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- User chooses a color
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- left right and center aligment
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- you can start the door and not let the users tag .... for exemple you can
- let unverified users use the door but they can only see the wall
-
- you can have the door use handles or real names
-
- up to 100(sysop defined) lines of wall space, up to 3 lines per post, posts
- are 1 line apart plus one line per name so that makes it about 10 3-lined
- posts on the wall before it takes the first one out, on the default 50 line
- wall.
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- You can now define the maximum length of teh wall to be from 20 up to a 100
- lines
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- no nightly maintanance, posts are deleted if wall is larger then the maximum
- lines, set by the sysop, during each posting procedure!
-
- multinode aware ... it locks files so two, or more, nodes can run at the
- same time without anything bad happening.
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- Multitasker aware, it releases time slices.
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- FREEWARE!
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- This program is freeeware which means ya should not charge for it, unless the
- cost covers your distribution charges. I accept donations but Ya don't need
- to send no money .. the software is FREE!!!! Ya got too much to pay just
- running a board!
-
- This software is the copyright (c)1995 of George Lebl.
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- DISCLAIMER!
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- I think it would be really lame to blame anything on me since this is
- freeware. So this means I'm not responsible for anything that happens to you
- by the use of any of the files in this package. This means if Freevote erases
- your hd and the monitor blows up and your house burns down and the russians
- drop an A-bomb on yer city ... I ain't responsible, You as a user are!
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- Other legal stuff
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- This package should not be altered, unless you ask my permission and i say
- yes ... it should contain these files:
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- SYSOP.DOC
- DWALL.EXE (run this one)
- WALL.EXE (don't run this one!)
- DWALL.CFG
- RESET.BAT
- FILE_ID.DIZ
- DWALL.BAT
- DIRTY.A??
- WHATSNEW.DOC (What's new!)
- NOACC.FLG (not needed, will be created if necessary, just a flag file)
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- Getting newer versions!
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- Ok If you got WWW go to
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- http://www.azstarnet.com/~franz/
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- If ya only got ftp the files should be usually on
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- ftp.uniserve.com /pub/bbs_doors
- or
- ftp.wustl.edu /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/bbs/doors
-
- if ya only got internet e-mail use the e-mail freq site (it should work)
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- TO: getfile@peacebbs.org
- SUBJECT: <the file name goes here>
- put anything in the body
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- FIDO FREQing should be available at 1:300/705. by filename only.
-
- or you can call my bbs and ask for verification! [520] 297-0889
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- The File naming covention since v2.0 is
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- DWALL_??.ZIP
- ^^
- ||
- +--- the version number ... (e.g. "24" for 2.4)
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- Installation!
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- Well to get you up and running fast, let's get to the instalation. Copy all
- files into a directory (e.g. C:\DWALL) and edit the DWALL.CFG file to your
- systems specifications. You can also use the example dwall.bat and edit it
- to your system specifications and then run the program from that! The .CFG
- file contains the sysop settings like the wall length, max posts etc ... as
- well as modem and bbs information.
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- Notice that DWALL.EXE is the file you want to run .... leave WALL.EXE alone
- it is the poster routine. And make sure you run dwall exe in the same
- directory as wall.exe is in, just change to the directory where you have
- all the Dirty Wall files before running the exe file!!!!
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- If your bbs software cannot pass the comport information through the door
- file, then edit the comport options in the .CFG file. If you run a multiple
- nodes on such a system create more .CFG files (e.g. DW1.CFG, DW2.CFG) edit
- these ... (You have to put all the settins in both af them!) and start the
- DWALL.EXE with the -C option (e.g. DWALL.EXE -Cdw1.cfg)
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- If you have a bbs software that passes the comport information leave the
- comport settings in the .CFG file commented out. Even on a multinode system.
-
- You can edit the DIRTY.ANS, DIRTY.ASC, DIRTY.AVT and DIRTY.RIP files if
- you want to change the main menu. If you only create ansi and ascii files
- and you want avatar people to get the ansi menu, just delete the DIRTY.AVT
- file. Same with RIP.
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- Sample batch files:
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- Let's say your bbs system is in c:\bbs your dropfiles for node 1 are in
- c:\bbs\node1, and in c:\bbs\node2 for node2 .. etc... Dirty Wall is installed
- in c:\doors\dwall. This is example batch file which would be called with
- one command line argument which would be the node number (e.g.
- "DWALL.BAT 2" for node 2)
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- DWALL.BAT
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- @echo off
- c:
- cd \doors\dwall
- REM change to the dirty wall dir
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- dwall -n%1 -pc:\bbs\node%1
- REM call dirty wall with -n<node number> and -p<dropfile path> arguments
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- cd \bbs\node%1
- REM get back to you bbs\node<node number> directory
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- This setup should work for most systems. Just change the path to your
- specifications.
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- Upgrading
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- From v2.x:
- ==========
- just unzip this archive in the dirty wall directory and yer done ....
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- From v1:
- ========
- I didn't release v1 so no upgrades ...
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- COMMAND LINE
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- Options:
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- -C = Run the door with config file different from DWALL.CFG
- (e.g. -Cdwalt.cfg = run Dirty Wall with the DWALT.CFG file)
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- -L = Force local operation. Does not read the drop file and ask for
- your name.
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- -P = Use drop file in dir specified after this option. You can also
- specify a drop file to use. (e.g. -Pc:\ra\doorinfo1.def)
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- -NT = Do not let the user tag the wall .... this is useful if you have
- the wall set up on an unverified menu .. then the unverified
- people can go to the wall view it but not tag it.
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- -H = Use handles instead of real names. This overides the option in
- the .cfg file.
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- -N = Set node #. This does NOT override the Node statement in .cfg
- file so if you use this make sure that node is commented out in
- the .cfg file! Make sure there will never be two nodes using
- the same node number.
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- -NAD = Do NOT autodetect the terminal type!
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- -SN = If you have a single node bbs only and want faster processing
- use this option. It eliminates falgs and multinode stuff which
- slows down parts of the program. USE THIS ONLY IF YOU HAVE ONE
- NODE BBS ONLY!!!
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- -RDBPS = Forces the game to read the locked port rate. This was default in
- the past and had caused problems!. This argument is only used for
- solving problems with locked bps fossil driver setups!
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- Problems, Special Setups!
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- If you have problems with reading the dropfile. You might try editting the
- BBSDir parameter in the .cfg file. then you would call freevote without
- any parameters.
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- If you have this problem on a multinode system, create a .cfg file for every
- node (e.g. DW1.CFG, DW2.CFG ...) then call dirty wall with just the -C
- parameter.
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- for example for node 2:
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- dwall -Cdw2.cfg
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- That's IT!!!
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- You've done it ....
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- run DWALL -L to test it local, and enjoy the wall
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- REGISTRATION:
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- What ... Ya wanna register a freeware ... oh well if u really needta send me
- some beer money ...
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- If you have some money that you really have to send me, ok sure, please do!
- Or you just wanna bitch about something regarding the software!
-
- Franz
- 12460 n granville cyn way
- tucson,az 85737
- USA
-
- Donations should be cash or money order only!!!! I don't wanna deal with
- returned checks or stuff like that. But remember it's not a shareware and you
- don't have to pay .. but it will prolly make me make the door better than it
- is.
-
- anywayz ... just enjoy .. ya don't heftta pay ... oh yeah if ya want to send
- me comments about it send it to
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- franz@azstarnet.com
-
- and look at my page (will have the newest ver of dirty wall!)
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- http://www.azstarnet.com/~franz/
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- new files are usually on
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- ftp.uniserve.com /pub/bbs_doors
- or
- ftp.wustl.edu /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/bbs/doors
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- if ya wanna call my bbs call (you can d/l all my stuff on fisrt call!):
-
- Franz's BBS [520] 297-0889
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- SUGGESTIONS:
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- I enjoy suggestions and bug reports for my doors so if you have anything to
- tell me, please do so ...
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- Other software I wrote:
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-
- New York 2008: RPG Door Game .. LORD alike but a bit more complicated and
- certainly different setting! (shareware $15)
- (newest version as of this v0.05a)
-
- Dirty Wall: This little program (freeware)
- (newest version as of this v2.4)
-
- FrEevOtE: One of the best voting doors out there and it's freeware (freeware)
- (newest version as of this v3.1)
-
- KeWlcHaT: Sysop chatting/paging door, pretty kewl but simple. (freeware)
- (newest version as of this v1.2)
-
- BULLS: ANSI, ASCII bulletin maker, very simple but I use it all the time!
- (freeware) (newest version as of this v1.2)
-
- Jackpot: New York 2008 IGM. (freeware, source released for v1.0)
- (lost the source to the latest version in an HD crash)
- (newest version as of this v1.2 development stopped!)
-
- Franz's Bar: New York 2008 IGM. ($1-donation-ware) (lost the sourcein a crash)
- (newest version as of this v1.3 development stopped!)
-
- Shoot Em: New York 2008 IGM. ($1-donation-ware) (lost the sourcein a crash)
- (newest version as of this v1.1 development stopped!)
-
- HIDET: Encryption program (almost shareware, I require a $10 payment, but
- there is no crippling and i released the source) Unbeatable but slow
- Latest version is v2.2 which is stable and probably the last version
- anybody interested i will e-mail the source or encryption algorithm.
- It has a few neat things to it! I might rewrite the algorithm in C
- and make a cross platform encryption program. I'd consider it freeware!
-
- Battle: MARS Type programming game. For Windows 3.1. (wanted $10) but it again
- ain't crippled and ain't really good, and does not follow standards
- and i haven't received a single reg nor feedback in 3 years:)
- (newest version as of this v1)
-
- Things: REALLY STUPID program for Win3.1 If you find it DON't D/l it ... hehehe
- You migth laugh yourself to death by it's stupidity. but it's 300k
- long! (newest version as of this v1)
-