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- NEWS.PPS OVERVIEW
-
- This PCBoard BBS PPL program will display the news file and allow editing if
- the user is the conference Sysop and the conference NEWS file is not the same
- file as the NEWS file in the main conference. "WizOp's", sysops w/security
- of 110+, may change any NEWS file, main or conference.
-
- (C) Copyright 1993, Stan Spotts, Philadelphia Area Computer Society IBM SIG
-
- IBM SIG BBS: (215) 657-0619
-
- PACS meetings are the third saturday of each month, from 8am to 3:50pm.
- Various special interest groups (SIG's) meet during this day at Drexel
- University. The main IBM SIG meeting is held in the Matheson Building,
- Room M-109, at 32nd & Market Streets.
-
- More information about PACS can be obtained from:
-
- Philadelphia Area Computer Society, Inc.
- c/o PACS
- Box 312
- La Salle University
- Philadelphia, PA 19141
- Voice: (215) 951-1255
-
- This program may be modified and used by anyone as long as credit is given
- to me as the author and the PACS IBM SIG in the source code and documentation.
- No fee is required, but it would be appreciated by the author if major
- improvements be forwarded to me at the PACS IBM SIG BBS.
-
- I've asked Clark Development Corp. to add a PPL command to give the PPL
- programmer access to the PCBoard editor (line and full screen), and I've been
- told it's on the "wishlist." If/When this is implemented, I'll add code to
- call it to this routine. As it stands now I've only coded enough basic editing
- functions to make things workable.
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- Copy the NEWS.PPE file into the directory where you keep your executable PPL
- programs. We'll use P:\PCB\PPL during these instructions.
-
- Run PCBSetup and select:
-
- B - File Locations
-
- then
-
- B - Configuration Files
-
- Now move your cursor to highlight:
-
- Name/Loc of Default CMD.LST File
-
- If you haven't yet specified a file here, do so now. We'll use the filename
- P:\PCB\GEN\CMD.LST for now.
-
- Press [F2] to edit the file. You'll see the following:
-
- Command Security PPE/MNU File -or- Keystroke Replacement
- 1) XXXXXXXXXXXXX XX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
-
- Enter "NEWS" for Command and "0" (or whatever security you require to read
- news) for Security. For the PPE file use the full to the PPL program, in our
- case it's P:\PCB\PPL\NEWS.PPE.
-
- Now simply [Esc] back (be sure to save!) to the main PCBSetup menu and exit.
- Also be sure to save your mods if you had to specify a new CMD.LIST file.
-
- That's it! When you run BOARD.BAT again you'll have the NEWS editing feature
- available for your sysops.
-
- DISCLAIMER
-
- I take no responsibility for the action of this program - especially if it's
- been modified by someone else. I wrote it because the IBM special interest
- group of our user group has moderators for some conferences that are not
- given sysop level security, but had to be able to change the news files in
- their respective conferences - and I certainly didn't want to have to do it
- for them!
-
- TRADEMARKS/COPYRIGHTS
- "PCBoard", "PPL" are trademarks of Clark Development Corp.
-