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- PBBSList Version 1.41 (C) 1993 by Bing Wu
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │▓▓▓▓▓ Introduction ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓│
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- This is PBBSList Version 1.41. This program basically has the same function
- as Most of other BBS Listing doors. :-) But this one is easy to setup. It's
- DesqView and Multiline aware. This program also supports most of the Major
- BBS types. [RA1.11, RA2.00, WC, Proboard etc.]
-
- Inorder to use this program's built in Download feature, you must be
- registered user of PBBSLIST. Also, you need to have DSZ placed in the
- same directory as the PBBSLIST does or anywhere in you path where
- PBBSList can locate it.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │▓▓▓▓▓ Features ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓│
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
- - Search through BBS list database via key-string
- - Briefly List the entries (summarized)
- - View the detail information of the BBS
- - Delete an entry (*)
- - Download a list of BBSs (+)
- - System Operator Paging
- - Configuration file supported BUT not required
- - Most BBS system compatiable
- - Data carrier monitor
- - Local status bar (can be disabled)
- - External Maintenance program
- - Record Modification (#)
- - Custom Logon Screen
-
- (*) Sysop only function
- (+) Registered version only function
- (#) Sysop and the person who entered that record only
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │▓▓▓▓▓ Licensing Information ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓│
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
- This program is distributed as shareware. You are grant 14 days (two weeks)
- trail period, after that you must either send in $15.00 registration fee or
- discontinue use it. Otherwise legal action may be brought against you since
- this program is CopyRighted. However, SISNet (Staying In Scouting Network)
- System operators can freely use this program without registration while with
- SISNet (a registration key will be sent to all SISNet operators freely upon
- request).
-
- The Products are provided as is, and neither author nor any BBS operator
- distributing this software is responsible for any damage incurred during
- the operation of the program.
-
- Comments, suggestions and bug reports are welcome. The author can be reach
- via fidonet Netmail @ 1:282/1016 or Internet E-MAIL @ bing@tdkt.kksys.com
- and by calling Panda BBS! @ 612-378-7783, Of course the author can also be
- reached via SISNet echomail (SIS_PANDA or SIS_COMPUTER) or SISNet Netmail.
- Also, they Author can be reached via RA_UTIL on Fidonet Backbone as well.
-
- The $15 registration fee grant you to use to all future versions of this
- program without additional registration fee. Your registration will be
- either send to you via crash netmail or conventional mail at no extra charge
- within CANADA and USA. $5 charge applies for order outside USA and CANADA.
- See REGISTRA.REG for more registration information.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │▓▓▓▓▓ Files In The Package ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓│
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
- PBBSList.EXE The main program
- PBBSLRen.EXE PBBSLIST maintenance program
- - renumber the BBS's listing number in the PBBSLIST.BBS, it
- should be ran whenever an entry has been deleted.
- PBBSList.BBS DataBase file
- PBBSList.CFG Configuration file for this program (NOT REQUIRED)
- PBBSList.A?? Screen to be displayed to your user when then enter the door
- PBBSList.DAT ASCII file to be added to the download file
- PBBSList.DOC This file
- Registra.REG Program registration form for all Panda Software programs
- Betatest.APP Application for Beta testing for PBBSLIST
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │▓▓▓▓▓ Setup ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓│
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
- The setup is easy and simple, it takes about 5 minutes in average time to
- setup. The program can be run under ANY BBS software, such as RemoteAccess,
- WildCat, QuickBBS, etc., This program does support the new format of RA2.00g1.
-
- This program doesn't require a configuration file, but it will certainly take
- adventage of a configuration file. (SAMPLE INCLUDED) The configuration file is
- self explanatory. Use a text editor open up the configuraton file and modify
- it as the way you wanted it to be.
-
- You can run this program with or without a bacth file, it all depends on how
- you wish to do it. But it's recommended that you run from a batch file.
-
- You can modify files "PBBSLIST.DAT" and "PBBSLIST.A??" to suit your need. Just
- use a file editor to modify those files, or just delete them and start your own.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │▓▓▓▓▓ Setup Examples ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓│
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- <-- Without Batch File / PBBSLIST.CFG used and resides in same directory --
- D:\RA\DOORS\TROOP\PBBSLIST.EXE *M *N
-
- <-- Without Batch File / PBBSLIST.CFG not used --
-
- This case, the program PBBSLIST and it's associated files must reside
- in the same directory as the information files (i.e. Dorinfo1.def &
- EXITINFO.BBS). In most cases is the same directory of your BBS system
- files.
- -= Not Recommended Setup =-
-
- D:\RA\DOORS\TROOP\PBBSLIST.EXE *M *N
-
- <-- With Batch File / PBBSLIST.CFG used and resides in same directory --
- C:\command.com /c\RA\BATS\LIST.BAT *M *N
-
- >------ Batch File -----
- d:
- cd \ra\doors\list
- pbbslist
- cd \ra\line1
- exit
-
- <-- With Batch File / PBBSLIST.CFG not used --
- C:\command.com /c\RA\BATS\LIST.BAT *M *N
-
- >------ Batch File -----
- C:\RA\DOOR\BBSLIST\PBBSLIST C:\RA 3 \RA\DOOR\BBSLIST
- --┬-- ┬ ------─┬--------
- │ │ └── directory name to the PBBSLIST
- │ │ files, NO DRIVE LETTER
- │ └─ Number Identify the drive to the PBBSLIST
- │ Directory (read below for more info)
- └─ Directory to the system info files
- (i.e. DORINFO?.DEF & EXITINFO.BBS)
- ** OR **
- cd C:\RA\DOOR\BBSLIST
- PBBSLIST C:\RA
- --┬--
- └─ Dir. to the system info files (i.e. DORINFO?.DEF & EXITINFO.BBS)
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │▓▓▓▓▓ Drive Number corrsponding to Letter ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓│
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
- Number ------------> Letter _ Number -------------> Letter
- 0 Current | | 1 A
- 2 B | | 3 C
- 4 D | | 5 E
- 6 F | | 7 G
- 8 H | | 9 I
- 10 J | | 11 K
- 12 L | | 13 M
- 14 N | | 15 O
- 16 P | | 17 Q
- 18 R | | 19 S
- 20 T | | 21 U
- 22 V | | 23 W
- 24 X | | 25 Y
- 26 Z |_|
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │▓▓▓▓▓ Run PBBSLREN ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓│
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
- PBBSLRen is utility program used by PBBSLIST. It has the ability to delete
- invalid entries from the database as well as renumbering them after deletion or
- perform alone. This program should be run every night for maintenace reasons.
-
- Usage:
- PBBSLREN [command]
-
- Option:
- [Command] Description
- D Delete invalid entry and renumbering them
- R Renumber the valid entries
-
- This program should be place in the some directory as PBBSLIST.BBS and should be
- run from that directory as well, if not, it may cause problem with the data
- files.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │▓▓▓▓▓ ErrorLevels ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓│
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
- PBBSList will exit with one of the following errorlevels:
- 0 - Critical Door error (no fossil, etc.)
- 1 - Carrier lost, user off-line
- 2 - Sysop terminated call, user off-line
- 3 - User time used up, user STILL ON-LINE
- 4 - Keyboard inactivity timeout, user off-line
- 5 - Sysop dropped user back to BBS, user ON-LINE
- 10 - User chose to return to BBS
- 11 - User chose to logoff, user off-line
- 12 - Critical PBBSList error
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │▓▓▓▓▓ Contact Author ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓│
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
- Bing Wu (author) can be reached via:
- Snail Mail:
- Bing Wu
- 604 Ontario Street SE
- Minneapolis, MN 55414-3118
-
- Telephone:
- (612)378-0885
-
- BBS:
- Panda BBS! @ (612)378-7783
-
- NetMail:
- bing@tdkt.kksys.com of InterNet
- bing wu@1:282/1016 of FidoNet
- bing wu@74:74/0 of SISNet
-
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │▓▓▓▓▓ Other Programs ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓│
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
- Online Programs
- ----------------
- BBSTROOP --Ver 1.30-- Online Scouting Troop Listing ($15 reg.)
- BBSMBCON --Ver 1.20-- Online Scouting MB Counselor list ($15 reg.)
- PBBSVOTE --Ver 1.10-- Online BBS Voting Door ($15 reg.)
- PBBSLIST --Ver 1.41-- Online BBS Listing Door ($15 reg.)
-
- Utilities
- ---------
- CONVERT ----N/A---- Converts MCV.LOC ver 1.10 to MCV.LOC ver1.11 (Free)
- CFDATE --Ver 1.00-- Compare two files' date, find which one is newer (DONATE)
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │▓▓▓▓▓ Beta Tester Needed ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓│
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
- The author is currently seeking beta testers to test his programs, including
- all Door programs listed above and all upcoming programs. If you are intereted
- in become a beta tester, fill out the application BETATEST.APP and specify
- the name of the program you wish to test or indicated you wish to test all
- programs.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │▓▓▓▓▓ Credits ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓│
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
- * Thanks Mike McGrane and all other beta tester for testing this program and
- give valuable feedbacks.
- * Thanks to my parents for keeping up with me. :-)
- * Thanks to Jeff Mesch for helping me with SISNet and Scouting Online Info Base
- so I can find time to write those programs
- * Thanks to all SISNet system operators for keeping up with SISNet and never
- quit to make it better.
- * Thanks to my baby sister (3 months old) for bring joy to my dailly life.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │▓▓▓▓▓ History ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓│
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
- Version 1.00
- * Initial release
-
- Version 1.10
- * registration key modified
- * added registered only feature
-
- Version 1.11
- * added maintanence feature (external Program)
- * Fixed BBS listing numbering problem
-
- Version 1.21
- * Added Record Modification feature
-
- Version 1.22 += May 15, 1993 =+
- * Fixed the display problem with the List
- * Add more color feature
-
- Version 1.30 += June 15, 1993 =+
- * Better support for ASCII
- * Changed some display details
-
- Version 1.40 += June 25, 1993 =+
- * Added support for RA2.00g1
- * Add custom logo screen
- * Add support to have BBS ads put to the end of PBBSLIST.LST, the file to
- be download by users for Registered version (+)
- * Changed the loading structure
-
- Version 1.41 += July 11, 1993 =+
- * Fixed: [1] The problem when adding Network to the new entry
- [2] Problem writing data to file if record contains
- field(s) that reached the limit
- * Changed: [1] The method used to add and delete record
- [2] Displaying BBS Phone # instead of Sysop's Name in the
- Short view of BBS information
- [3] Disabled the Chat Option if logon locally
- [4] Disabled the Continue Option if the database reached
- the end
- [5] Disabled the view option if no record was found or empty
- database
- * Modified: the PBBSLREN has been totally rewritten
-
- ---
- EOF PBBSLIST.DOC
- 07/11/93
- (c) 1993 Bing Wu - Compiled with BC++ @ 01:23:00 on Sunday, July 11, 1993
-