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- Presents
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- RA-Lister
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- Version 1.0
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- (C) 1996 by Jason Raphael
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- ─═─ Welcome to RA-Lister v1.0! ─═─
-
- RA-Lister v1.0 was programmed and designed by Jason Raphael, April 1996.
- Completed at 10:46am, 04-13-96.
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- Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents........1
- Information..............2
- Legal Information........3
- Archive Contents.........4
- Installation.............5
- Program Usage............6
- Editing BBS List.........7
- RA-Lister Log............8
- Registration.............9
- Credits..................10
- Support..................11
- Other Fine RA Utils......12
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- ──═════════════════════──
- Information
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-
- RA-Lister is a RemoteAccess questionnaire (q-a) script. This means that
- it will load extremely fast from RA, and you can still see the RA status
- bar and use all RA SysOp keys while in the program. RA-Lister has many
- features, including:
-
- - Ability for users to add their own entries..
- - Full logging of all activity in RA-Lister to a separate log..
- - Creates a very nice, professional looking listing..
- - Will not allow a user to enter a listing without all necessary
- information - If a field is left blank, the user is prompted to
- abort the entry..
- - Easy to edit listing..
- - ...And much more!
-
- - Notice on modifications of questionnaire:
-
- Although I don't see any reason to, you may modify the text in this
- questionnaire (such as the menus, etc). I only have one small
- requirement about this: You must leave the blue status bar at the top
- of every screen (as it is now) with the program name on it, the exact
- way it is by default.
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- - 3 -
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- ──═════════════════════──
- Legal Information
- ──═════════════════════──
-
- Neither myself (Jason Raphael) nor Dream Scape BBS can be held
- responsible for any damage this program may cause on your system. It
- HAS been thoroughly tested on my system as well as other systems, and to
- the best of my knowledge works fine. After all, it is only an RA
- questionnaire. <grin> :) If you DO for some reason encounter any
- problems with it, however, neither of the above mentioned parties take
- any responsibility for it.
-
- You are encouraged to distribute RA-Lister, as long as it is in its
- original archive with all files included and NOT modified in any way.
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- Archive Contents
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-
- The RA-Lister archive (LISTV10.ZIP) should contain the following files:
- DONATE.FRM Donation form
- FILE_ID.DIZ Program identification
- INSTALL.BAT Installation program
- LISTER.20X Main Q-A file for RA v2.0x
- LISTER.25X Main Q-A file for RA v2.5x
- LISTER.BAT Batch file used by RA-Lister
- RALISTER.DOC RA-Lister documentation (you're reading it!)
- README.1ST Important installation information
-
- The following files will be created after RA-Lister is executed:
- LISTER.ANS BBS listing ANSI screen (in your textfiles dir)
- LISTER.LOG RA-Lister logfile (only with RA 2.5x) (in your RA dir)
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- Installation
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-
- For quick and simple installation, please run INSTALL.BAT (included with
- RA-Lister). This program will detect what version of RemoteAccess you
- are running, and copy all necessary files to their proper locations.
- All that you will need to do after running INSTALL is add the option
- to run RA-Lister in the menu(s) you'd like.
-
- INSTALL.BAT will do the following items for you:
-
- - Select the appropriate questionnaire for your system (based upon what
- version of RemoteAccess you are using) and copy it to your
- RemoteAccess questionnaire directory. (Due to certain options RA
- 2.5x's questionnaire script has that RA 2.0x's does not, there are two
- Q-A files included with this program. If you're running RemoteAccess
- v2.0x, LISTER.20X will be renamed to LISTER.Q-A. If you're running
- RemoteAccess v2.5x, LISTER.25X will be renamed to LISTER.Q-A. The
- main difference between the 2.0x enhanced version and the 2.5x
- enhanced version of RA-Lister is logging: Logging of activity within
- the program is only available within the 2.5x version.)
-
- - Copy LISTER.BAT to your RemoteAccess system directory for RA-Lister to
- access. If for some reason your RA system directory is not in your
- PATH statement, you will need to move it to a directory that is (such
- as C:\DOS).
-
- INSTALL needs only three pieces of information to properly run:
-
- - The TXTFILES environment variable must point to your RA textfiles
- directory (ex: SET TXTFILES=D:\TXTFILES). RA-Lister requires that
- this variable be set for the program to operate.
-
- - The RA environment variable must point to your RemoteAccess system
- directory (ex: SET RA=D:\RA).
-
- - The full path (including drive letter) to your RA questionnaire
- directory must be specified on the commandline WITHOUT A TRAILING
- BACKSLASH (ex: INSTALL D:\RA\Q-A).
-
- Now, all that is left is to add the option in your menus:
-
- ∙ Setting up RA-Lister v1.0 in a RemoteAccess menu
-
- a) Enter RACONFIG -> Menu editor
- b) Go to the menu(s) that you wish to have an option to run RA-Lister on.
- c) Make a new menu entry as follows:
-
- Action Execute a questionnaire (Type 12)
- Display ; <-- Your display may vary
- OptData LISTER
- HotKey L <-- Your hotkey may vary
- AutoExec No
- Colour Colour example
-
- MinSec 0 TimeUsed 0 FlatCost 0
- MaxSec 0 TimeLeft 0 TimeCost 0
- A flags -------- Age 0 Terminal ANSI RIP
- B flags -------- MinSpeed 0 Nodes
- C flags -------- MaxSpeed 0 Groups
- D flags -------- Credit 0 DayTimes
-
- You must have an ANSI driver loaded (such as ANSI.SYS) to use RA-Lister.
-
- At this point in time, RA-Lister does not support ASCII. Make sure that
- you set the terminal type to ANSI and RIP, since ASCII is not supported.
-
- If there is enough demand, RA-Lister could support ASCII in a future
- release.
-
- NOTE: If you're currently running RA v2.0x, and you upgrade to v2.5x
- at a later time, repeat these steps again to upgrade to the
- 2.5x enhanced version of RA-Lister.
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- Program Usage
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- RA-Lister is very simple and easy to use. Upon entering the program,
- you are presented with the following menu:
-
- V) View BBS listing
- A) Add BBS to listing
- Q) Quit RA-Lister
-
- Selecting 'V' to view the BBS listing will, of course, display the BBS
- listing database. Option 'A' takes the user through a question process
- to add a new BBS to the list, and obviously 'Q' exits the program and
- returns to the BBS.
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- Editing BBS List
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-
- Editing the BBS list that RA-Lister creates and uses is also quite simple
- to do. The BBS list is located in your RA textfiles directory with a
- filename of LISTER.ANS. Just load your favorite ANSI screen editor (such
- as TheDraw), load LISTER.ANS, and make any changes/deletions you want to.
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- RA-Lister Log
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-
- RA-Lister will create a logfile of all activity. The time a user entered
- the program will be logged, as well as any additions they make to the
- BBS list. Here is an example of how the logfile will look after someone
- adds an entry:
-
- RA-Lister executed by Jason Raphael [Jammer] on node 2 (03-20-96, 20:11)
- - Added BBS entry: Dream Scape BBS
- - Exited RA-Lister (20:11)
-
- The RA-Lister logfile will be created in your RA system directory with
- the filename LISTER.LOG.
-
- NOTE: Due to to certain options RA 2.5x's questionnaire script has that
- RA 2.0x's does not, logging is only available in the 2.5x version
- of RA-Lister (see Installation section of documentation for more
- information).
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- Registration
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-
- You are not required to pay any kind of fee to use this program. I've
- put a lot of my time into making RA-Lister look just right, fixing every
- little detail, etc. There are no special features or extras you get for
- sending a donation, but I'm definitely more likely to release future
- versions and other q-a programs if I were to receive some donations. I
- suggest a small donation of $5. Please see DONATE.FRM for donation
- information.
-
- Even if you choose not to donate, if you enjoy the program, I'd really
- appreciate receiving some kind of postcard or letter from you. My
- mailing address is at the end of this document.
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- Credits
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-
- Although RA-Lister is a somewhat new project, a lot of work has been put
- into it. There are some people that I'd like to thank for their help,
- without which RA-Lister wouldn't be where it is today (in no particular
- order):
- - Brad Meyer, Imagine Productions beta tester and internet
- distributor for his support, ideas, and testing of RA-Lister, as
- well as his distribution of Imagine Productions programs via the
- internet..
- - Andrew Milner - If it weren't for him, RemoteAccess wouldn't be
- here, and this program would be useless.
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- Support
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-
- You can always obtain the latest version of RA-Lister by:
- ∙ FREQing magicname RA-LISTER from Dream Scape BBS, 1:284/22, any time
- but ZMH up to 28.8 bps..
- ∙ Logging on to the Imagine Productions Support Site:
- Dream Scape BBS - 417-883-4035..
- ∙ From the official Imagine Productions World Wide Web site:
- http://www.cland.net/~dsbbs/imagine.html
-
- If you're having any problems with RA-Lister v1.0, if you have a
- suggestion for a future version, or need to contact me for some other
- reason, there are several ways you can do so:
-
- - Send FidoNet netmail: 1:284/22
- - Logon to Dream Scape BBS: (417) 883-4035
- - Send internet e-mail: jason.raphael@c-matrix.springfield.mo.us
- -or- jammer@cmaster.com
- - Post a message to me in the RA_UTIL FidoNet echo
- - Send me mail via U.S. Postal service:
- Dream Scape BBS
- 1730 East Republic Road A-123
- Springfield, MO 65804-7502
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- Other Fine RA Utils
- ──═════════════════════──
-
- Be sure to check out these other fine RemoteAccess utilities by Imagine
- Productions:
-
- RA-Pager v1.55 - SysOp pager for
- RemoteAccess v2.0x and v2.5x.
- ----------------------------------------
- Many improvements over RA's internal
- pager. Allows you to continue using
- RA's SysOp chatter with a much
- improved interface and many more
- features such as:
- - Full logging of all activity/page
- reasons to a separate log
- - Full lightbar support of all prompts
- - Moving bars during paging
- - Page reason and leave message prompt,
- just like in registered RA
- ..And much more!
- * Another fine RA Q-A program *
-
- [FREQable from 1:284/22 as magicname: RA-PAGER]
-
-
- - RAPSA v1.0 -
-
- RAPSA is a simple batch file utility
- to adjust the status of RemoteAccess
- paging (on or off) from your DOS prompt.
-
- [Distributed with RA-Pager archive]
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