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- PBMMAN V0.9 09-02-91
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- Play By Mail Game File Manager
- For use with RBBS 17.x
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- Introduction:
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- PBMMAN is a simple program designed to maintain game files that were
- being uploaded to my BBS. Before I wrote this program it was fairly simple to
- maintain the directories, at the end of the week I just erase all the files and
- edit the Master directory. That was ok until I had to leave town for a month
- and there were hundreds of the game files everywhere. So to make the job easier
- and more automatic I wrote PBMMAN. Now as part of my nightly maintenance
- routines I have PBMMAN check and remove the old PBM files.
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- How To Use PBMMAN:
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- PBMMAN setup requires only the modification of the PBMMAN.CFG file.
- In this file you place the download directory that you store the PBM files and
- the file that you use as the download directory. (See Comments in the
- PBMMAN.CFG file) PBMMAN also logs its activities to a file (PBMMAN.LOG) to let
- the System Operator know what activities it had performed. PBMMAN can be placed
- in the RBBSTIME.BAT file or it can be run from the dos prompt.
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- Uploaded Game File Naming:
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- When your callers upload a game file, They should use this unique naming
- convention. PBMMAN uses the date placed in the filename to identify the game
- date. This was done so that those callers who don't use there computer clocks
- (or don't have one) be able to date stamp the file. This also allows for post-
- dating of the file. The file structure is as follows.
-
- xxmodayr.gam
- ^^^^^^^^ ^^^
- |||||||| |||
- |||||||| +++----- extension (Rename .Zip to .GAM)
- ||||||++--------- Year (Year Created)
- ||||++----------- Date (Day Created)
- ||++------------- Month (Month Created)
- ++--------------- 2 letter/number game id (Determined By Players)
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- All PBM Game files should be uploaded in a zip/arc format and given the
- extension .GAM
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- Example: PKZIP AA010180.GAM PBMFILE.EXT
-
- The example creates the game upload file with the player id of AA
- created on the date of January 1, 1980 with an archive extension of .GAM and
- places PBMFILE.EXT in the archive AA010180.GAM
-
- RBBS will place the game in a download directory. PBMMAN will scan these
- files and check to see how long the file has been on the system. PBMMAN will
- allow the file to be available for 3 days. After 3 days the file will be
- deleted by PBMMAN and make room for other players turns.
-
- The First 2 characters of the game file must be present for PBMMAN to
- work. These characters can be any character allowed by DOS and is used by the
- caller to identify the game.
- ( legal DOS file characters A-Z, 0-9, _, ^, $, ~, !, #, %, &, -,
- {, }, (, ), @, ', ` )
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- Program Registration:
-
- This program is made available completely operational and is not crippled
- or time limited. Future revisions of PBMMAN and other BBS and Game products
- will depend on the response from you the user. Feel Free to do one of the
- following -
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- 1. Send Cash - Send as much as you want, but I think $5 should
- be plenty.
- 2. Write Letter - Any Message of encouragement will accepted. I you have
- a problem with the program, a letter will also work.
- 3. Nothing - Send nothing. But I would like to know your thoughts.
- So if a letter is too much call my BBS. I will be
- happy to hear from you.
-
- Send All Mail to :
-
- Mike Bohler
- 332 N. Brookshore Dr.
- Shorewood, Il 60435
-
- c/o RFIsoft
-
- Or call my BBS :
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- Radio Free Illinois
- BBS # (815)729-9793
- 24hrs. 3-12-2400 baud NONE,8,1
-
-
- Thank you for your support.
-
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- PBMMAN has ben tested on the following equipment using the following Software
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- IBM-XT V20 40 meg HD
- Packard Bell PB8810 (XT)
- MS-DOS ver 5.0 ,3.3
- RBBS ver. 17.3b
- HJKFMS 1.2 File Management system
- LANtastic 2.0mbs NOS
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- PBMMAN was written using QuickBasic 4.5
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