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- L A S T 1 . 0
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- A RemoteAccess 2.x / Frontend Mailer Utility
- Copyright (c) 1995 by Steve Miller
- All Rights Reserved.
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- STORY:
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- This program is very easy to understand and to use. Every Sysop with
- mailer software knows that a BANNER file is displayed to the user before
- the BBS software loads from the mailer. I thought that it would be
- very handy for some bit of information to be held in this file, so I
- wrote this program.
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-
- INSTRUCTIONS:
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- Included in this archive are two files, LAST.ANS and LAST.SET.
- LAST.SET holds the unformatted version of what you want the text
- file to display. Very easy to understand.
-
- LAST.ANS is an example of how you can make Last generate ANSI colored
- last caller screens. There's a trick to this ...
-
- ANSI TRICK: Most people when they use TheDraw to generate and ANSI file will
- save the file by entering Animation mode, and hitting spacebar
- on the last line (this keeps the drawing on the screen).
- For Last you DON'T DO THAT! Create the ANSI file with TheDraw
- that you want to display the stats, do NOT enter Animation
- mode! Save it as an ANSI file, and then load up DOS Edit and
- CTRL-Y (delete) the extra spaces at the end of the file!
- Then rename the file to LAST.SET .. that SHOULD work .. if
- it doesn't work, that means there are still too many characters
- on one particular line.
-
- It looks MUCH nicer when the screen does NOT clear before this
- file is displayed, to prevent this.. delete the first FEW
- ANSI codes from the LAST.SET file YOU make! The one distributed
- in the archive is a good example how to have it set!
-
- When this program is run, it will scan through the LAST.SET file and replace
- the following characters codes with the following values:
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- CODE: VALUE:
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- %n Name
- %h Handle
- %c City
- %b Baud
- %t # of Calls
- %o Log On Time
- %f Log Off Time
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- NOTE: YOU DO _NOT_ HAVE TO INCLUDE _ALL_ OF THE VARIABLES, AND
- YOU _CAN_ HAVE AS MANY OF EACH VARIABLE IN THE TEXTFILE AS SO DESIRED!
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- Finally the output file LAST.TXT will be generated. From there you are
- on your own. You can do anything you want with that file. For example
- you might want to have something included in a batch file that will copy
- the LAST.TXT to the FrontDoor directory as BANNER.TXT.
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- REQUIREMENTS:
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- o RemoteAccess 2.x
- o The RemoteAccess environmental variable (ie SET RA=C:\RA)
- o You MUST be in the same directory as the LAST.SET file to run Last.
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- CONTACTING THE AUTHOR:
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- Xanadu BBS ■ 805∙545∙0177 ■ San Luis Obispo, CA ■ ƒidonet 1:212/1008
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