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- NOTIME v1.0: Run in the $$LOGOFF.BAT file this program will check to see if a
- caller has a specific security level. If so it will change the minutes used in
- the user record to zero allowing the next caller using the same user-id to
- receive a full session's time limit. Optionally resets Last Message Read
- pointers. Useful for DEMO ACCOUNTS on PCBoard v14.5a systems.
-
- Installation:
-
- 1) Copy the NOTIME.EXE file into the PCBoard directory or in any directory
- listed in your PATH= environment setting.
-
- 2) Create a $$LOGOFF.BAT file in the directory where PCBoard is run.
-
- 3) In the $$LOGOFF.BAT file have a line that looks like this:
-
- NOTIME pcboard.sys \pcb\main\users 15 reset
-
- The first parameter to NOTIME tells it where it should find the pcboard.sys
- file. If $$LOGOFF.BAT does not change directories just typing pcboard.sys will
- be fine. If you change directories then use the complete path to the file such
- as "\pcb\pcboard.sys".
-
- The second parameter tells NOTIME where to find the users file. A complete
- path is shown in the above example.
-
- The third parameter tells NOTIME what security level to watch for and modify.
- Any caller having a security level less than or greater than the level given
- as the third parameter will be ignored. Callers having the exact security
- level given will have their minutes used field in the user record changed to 0
- as if the caller had not used any time on during his call.
-
- The fourth parameter is OPTIONAL and tells NOTIME to reset the Last Message
- Read pointers of all conferences 0 thru 39 back to zero so that the next caller
- will be able to read all of the same mail. Conferences beyond 39 are not
- supported in this release.
-
- The amount of time given to such callers is still controlled by the PWRD file
- in PCBoard. If the PWRD file gives a session limit of 30 minutes for a level
- 15 caller and you use the NOTIME program on level 15 callers then each caller
- who logs in with a user-id that has a level 15 will get 30 minutes.
-
- The benefit here is that any number of callers can call in using the same
- user-id and receive a full session time.
-
- An obvious "abuse" of this would be where the same caller uses 30 minutes,
- hangs up, dials back in and uses another 30 minutes. Of course, he at least
- had to "hang up" and give someone else a chance to get on the system and
- sometimes that is all that matters.