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- NewsRoom
- News Creation and Maintenance Utility for BBS SysOps
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- NewsRoom version 3.04
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- Chapter 1Chapter 1
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- IntroductionIntroduction
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- NewsRoom is a utility intended for use by BBS SysOps to
- create news files for their bulletin boards. Although originally
- designed to be used with PCBoard systems by using the PCB
- specific color codes, NewsRoom also produces files with ANSI
- color codes or plain ASCII text and also Wildcat! specific color
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- Each news entry created in NewsRoom is kept separate from
- the others and may be re-edited at a later date if necessary.
- Items are included in the end news product based on SysOp
- selection. Old news items may be deleted if they no longer
- apply, either manually as the news is created, or based on date
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- Chapter 2Chapter 2
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- The Files menu selection allows for maintenance of the
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- 2.1 Conference 2.1 Conference
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- On selecting the conference function, a dialog box will be
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- select Next and Prev(ious) conferences to browse through your
- conferences. A conference may be deleted using the Delete
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- When you are finished updating your conference database, you
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- ConfigureConfigure
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- This menu selection allows configuration of the BBS
- displaying the news, the news colors, and the screen colors,
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- 3.1 BBS Common 3.1 BBS Common
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- This menu selection allows you to set up many common fields.
- Most of the fields are self-explanatory, allowing you to select
- the format for dates, times, and other fields. A new addition to
- this dialog box with version 3.04 is the ability to define an
- external editor to create and edit news items. In the provided
- field, you should enter the complete path and filename of the
- editor you wish to use. If this field is left blank, the
- internal editor supplied with NewsRoom will be used.
- Just a short word on using an external editor: It is the
- responsibility of the user to limit the margins on this editor to
- sixty columns (the same width as the internal editor uses). If
- the editor margins are not correctly set, lines may be
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- Chapter 4Chapter 4
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- NewsNews
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- This single selection now offers complete news management
- services. The first window presented will be a list of
- conferences. By using the buttons on the side of the window,
- news for the highlighted conference may be created, edited, or
- exported. When finished with the news, the selection window(s)
- may be closed by using the Escape key or the close button in the
- upper left corner of the box.
- By selecting the Edit function, a list of news items will be
- presented in a new window for the highlighted conference.
- If you activate the Add button, you will be allowed to add a
- news item in the highlighted conference.
- Selecting Edit in the Edit window will place the highlighted
- news item into the editor, allowing updates.
- Selecting Delete will cause the highlighted news item to be
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- 4.1 News Dialog 4.1 News Dialog
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- The dialog presented when the Edit or New functions are
- selected will allow entry/editing of a news item. Also, you will
- see different dialogs depending on what options you set up in the
- BBS Common dialog. If you have defined an external editor, the
- dialog shown will include only the Subject and Retain fields.
- After filling in these two fields, the program will shell to an
- external editor you have defined.
- The subject field will accept a fifty character subject, but
- will only display about 20 characters. If the subject is longer
- than the displayed length, it may be scrolled in either direction
- to view the non-displayed portions.
- The Retain field should only be used if special handling for
- this news item is desired. By leaving this field to zero, the
- default retention (defined in the options) will be used to
- determine when it will be purged by the automatic purge function.
- An entry of -1 is a special indicator to NewsRoom that the item
- should never be purged.
- If you have not defined an external editor, then the dialog
- box you are using will include a rudimentary editor. The editor
- portion of the dialog is used to enter the news text. At this
- point, there is no word wrap available in the editor, so it is
- the user's responsibility to insure that the lines are not wider
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- NewsRoom allows processing of news in an unattended manner.
- You may use NewsRoom in a daily BBS Event to purge old news items
- and create news files. These activities are controlled by
- command line switches.
- Using the /p (or -p) switch will cause news items that have
- expired to be deleted from the file. This processing will affect
- all news items in the database.
- The /e (or -e) switch will create a new news file for each
- conference with active news items. Before creating new news
- files, the files for all conferences will be deleted to insure
- that there will be no news file if there are no active news
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- If both switches are used (and this is permissible), the
- purge will occur before the news export to insure that expired
- items do not appear in the new news file. The order of the
- switches on the command line make no difference as to which
- process comes first.
- If you perchance happen to watch this process, you will see
- nothing spectacular. The NewsRoom main screen will appear, and a
- message box showing whether the program is purging or exporting
- files will be shown. To keep track of what happens in NewsRoom,
- there is a log created by the event process. Look in the file
- NREVENT.PRC for a listing of news items deleted or problems that
- occurred during the export process, or a list of news items
- exported.
- The deletion log entries will show the date the item was
- created, the conference it was created in, the title, whether it
- was purged or not, and if not, the date of scheduled purge. In
- the case of a news item with a -1 in the retention field, the
- item will never be purged, and will show NEVER for the date of
- scheduled purge. The export entries show date of creation,
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- SupportSupport
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- You can obtain support for newsroom from several areas. The
- best is LMD Group's support conference (Nr. 18) on the Brass
- Cannon BBS. Phone numbers are:
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- o (801) 226-8310 2400 baud MNP-5 (public access)
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- If you have not yet registered on The Brass Cannon, you must
- do so on one of the 2400 baud lines. You will be upgraded
- within 24 hours and be given access to the private line. Your
- registration includes a a user account on this board. If you
- need support prior to registering, just call and log on. Join
- conference 18 and address questions to LMD GROUP SUPPORT.
- Although not an official support area, the RIME network
- Shareware conference (network conference #156) is monitored. Mail
- may be sent to LMD GROUP SUPPORT and routed to ->BRASS.
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- Program InformationProgram Information
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- NewsRoom was written specifically for BBS SysOps.
- Since SysOps are, in our experience, more scrupulous
- about registering their shareware, we take a markedly
- different stance with programs aimed at the SysOp
- market than with other markets. NewsRoom is in no
- way crippled. Registering will take the "UNREGISTERED
- DEMO" line out of your news and replace it with a line
- indicating that it's registered, and do the same thing
- with the main menu screen. We don't ask you to trust
- us that the program will work after registration, and
- we don't put an expiration date on the program.
- Please propagate our trust in you by registering
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- A.1 The Copyright A.1 The Copyright
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- This software is the property of the LMD Group. As such,
- users are granted a limited license for the use of this software.
- Basically, you are allowed to use the software the same as a
- book. You are allowed to make archive copies of the software to
- protect your investment. By saying "as a book", this means that
- any number of people may use the software, it my be moved from
- CPU to CPU, but it may not be used at more than one location or
- on more than a single computer at the same time unless a site
- license is negotiated.
- Along with that, goes a few other restrictions: You may not
- decompile or reverse engineer the software. You may not modify
- the program's operation in any way. The key file used by the
- software is non-transferrable. You may not sell or give away or
- in any other way transfer a key file to another person without
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- This software is not warranted to do anything but take up
- valuable space on your disk, and possibly make you regret you
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- We'd like to take a moment here and point out that PCBoard
- is a product of Clark Development Company and is a registered
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- Chapter 1 Introduction 3
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- Chapter 2 Files 5
- 2.1 Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
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- Chapter 3 Configure 7
- 3.1 BBS Common . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- 3.2 Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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- Chapter 4 News 9
- 4.1 News Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
- 4.2 Event Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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- A.1 The Copyright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- A.2 The Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- A.3 The Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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