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- King of the Board
- Monthly Champion Update
- Written by Chuck Valecek
-
- Here is a quick utility that will create a monthly champion bulletin and
- if running the points version of the door, reset the King of the Board users
- file.
-
- Since King of the Board is not crippled I created this program for those
- sysops who registered the Door. It will not run if your King of the Board is
- not registered. Sorry, but I had to do something for those registered sysops.
-
- In both versions of the door a bulletin showing the user in the top
- position will be created. If the points version is being run then the King
- users file will be reset and the sysop's name will be the only name in the file.
- This allows the other users a chance to get to the top and to acknowledge the
- top position in each version of the game.
-
- The program was designed to run in your event and based on the day of the
- month will create a bulletin showing who was the monthly champ. If you are
- running both versions then the program should be run twice, each with a
- different configuration file.
-
- There is a little CFG file that is required for the program to run. This
- file will be created the first time the program is run.
-
- Example command line: KOBMTD KOBMTD.CFG
-
- If no file is specified then the program will abort notifying you that a
- config file must be specified. If the file is not on disk then you will be
- asked a series of questions. If the config file is not in the current
- directory you can specify the entire path/file name of the config file.
-
- NOTE: When prompted for file names specify the FULL Path/name of the files.
-
- When run, the program will read the config file. If the day equals the day
- you specified it will create a backup of the points version of the KING.USR file
- and rename it KING.MM, where MM is the month, and place the sysop as the only
- person in the file. When starting a new game the first person in the door is on
- top and not allowed to play, so by placing the sysop in the file the first
- player has a chance to challenge the sysop.
-
- The bulletin will be created the first time and then every month afterwards
- it will append the first person in the users file as the current champion.
- If points are in effect then the bulletin will contain the points the champion
- earned. If the day is not equal to the day you specified then the program
- will just exit and nothing will be done.
-
- NOTE! The actual name of the bulletin can only be 7 characters in length, not
- couting the path. The program will append a G to the file name so that a
- Color bulletin and a Non-Color bulletin can be created.
-
-
- This program does not have to be run from the event, but it looked like the
- most likely place to run it without worrying about it.
-
- Enjoy! If you see a problem you know where I can be reached at.
- Suburban Software
- PO Box 368
- Oak Lawn, IL 60454
- 708-636-6694 Forval 19.2 or 708-636-6697 USR DS
-
- As of 8/6/91 there is a beta version of King 7.14 running. If it gets a clean
- bill of health it will be released soon.