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Remote Access Users Editor from Renegade Software RAUSERS... The Other Editor... UPGRADE / WHATS-NEW DOCUMENT as of: 4 Mar 1996 NOTE FOR ALL USERS OF RAUSERS: ------------------------------ RAUSERS keeps the files it needs to operate and use for messages, notes, config, etc in the directory pointed to by your RA envirnment variable. If there is a particular part of RAUsers not operating correctly and that option requires an external file then most likely the file needed is not in your RA directory. RAUsers V 2.20 upgrade information ---------------------------------- - If running in Proboard mode insure the no RA environment variable exist, OR if it exist that it points to the same directory as the Proboard environment variable. You must still run the Convert Simul2 prior to running RAUsers with Proboard. - Version number jump because of RA 2.50 support - Copy the RAUsers.Exe and RAUsers.Ovr over the previous versions - Now with better multitasker detection and time slicing - notifies you of the multitasker detected - GoTo SETUP -->GENERAL SETUP --> BBS TYPE and select your BBS type. Supports RA 2.50 NOW. - Removed Miscellaneous Computer Info, Files.RA & Messages.Ra editors. I might release the 2 *.RA editors as seperate packages, but RAConfig does just about all that needs to be done now !! - Double checked the pack since called code, it should work correctly now. See note in Hints.Doc. - FIXED a major math problem in the auto upgrades you setup in GENERAL SETUP for Upload divided by downloads ratio upgrading. Boy, I really had this one messed up. Should work now. - Fixed minor BUG in user location from within the user editor, a RTE of 103 appeared because the file Users.BBS was not open to get the needed data. - Added PROBOARD support for Limits.Pro. Now when running in a ProBoard environment it edits the Limits.Pro. - Added a call to Procfg.exe to edit the Protocols when slected from the menu. - IF Proboard then the Sysinfo & Lastcall are disabled - Added a ProBoard New Users Info editor. Now when in a ProBoard environment it edits the ProBoard New User defaults. - Fixed bug of Lastcalls not working from the menu ßeta 3 - Fixed bug in Dupe Checking. If no dupes were found then hitting ESC or ENTER caused a RTE of 100. - Fixed guest name of screwed up length if just creating a new rausers.cfg file - Disabled mouse abilities that are built into TTT (Tool Kit) I use. They tend to mess up some screens in OS/2. - Changed the DOS file manager to a better style. Let me know if this is better or worse than the last one. I have thought about completely removing this function. Thoughts ?? - Added use of HANDLES in bulletins creation. To do this go to GENERAL SETUP and toggle Use Handles in Bulletins to your liking This only affects the bulletins, not the last call list RAUsers V 2.10 upgrade information ---------------------------------- - Copy the RAUsers.Exe and RAUsers.Ovr over the previous versions - Added new command line paramter: /KILL # - flags one time callers to the BBS for deletion # = days since lastcall to the BBS EXAMPLE: RAUsers /Kill 120 - This will flag for deletion all one time callers to the BBS who have not called in 120 days - Removed the RAMgr style view list - Fixed problem in Templates editor of editing flags - Added new command line paramter: /LRep [filename] - Creates a bulletin of statistics generated from your current RA log designated in the Setup --> Paths/Filenames filename = path & filename WITHOUT extension of the report RAUsers V 2.09 upgrade information ---------------------------------- - Copy the RAUsers.Exe and RAUsers.Ovr over the previous versions OPTION - Copy the sample Validate.Dat and Notes_?.Txt to your RA directory ------->> (SEE BELOW FOR MORE INFO ON THESE FILES) (I RECOMMEND COPYING) - Fancied up some of the miscellaneous editors - If usersbase is over around 1100 users then the RA View listing will not operate correctly. It will be trying to allocate too much memory for the list and it will not crash but the some of the data in the list will be garbled. - Added a Questionsire answer file viewer - Added ability to post a message directly to the user you are currently editing (JAM or HMB). You can either use a premade ASCII text file or create the message directly from the Edit screen. You must have an ASCII editor defined in the SETUP for the create a message to operate. Use "P" from within the EDITOR to post the message. - Added a validation template system. You can edit the templates and then from the user edit screen you can push "V" and a list of the available templates will pop-up for your selection. A sample validation data file is included: Validate.Dat. This file must be placed in your RA directory for it to work. If not placed there the program will create one for you. Unregistered version is limited to 7 templates. - Added a NAG screen that appears in unregistered versions after 30 key strokes at the menu. SORRY... had to do this to help encourage those using the program to register and use shareware the right way... :-( :^( Encourage sysops to register - Added popup window reminders on certain fields in editor that are used in the validation system. You can turn the use of these on and off in the SETUP --> GENERAL SETUP --> USE_POPUP - Added a notes system for the validation templates for the flags. As always, to edit the notes you must have an ASCII editor assigned in the SETUP --> GENERAL SETUP --> EDITOR. Copy the supplied example NOTES_?.Txt files to your RA directory or create your own. Filenames must be: Notes_A.Txt - for the A flags Notes_B.Txt - for the B flags Notes_C.Txt - for the C flags Notes_D.Txt - for the D flags ALL FILES MUST BE IN YOUR RA DIRECTORY POINTED TO BY YOUR RA ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE. IF NOT FOUND WHEN YOU TRY TO EDIT THEM, THEN THEY WILL BE CREATED FOR YOU. LIMITAIONS ON THE NOTES TEXT FILES: ----------------------------------- - Line length is limited to 35 characters - Only the first 12 lines in the file will be displayed in the viewer window. See example files for more info. - Added New User Defaults editor. Edits the same data and fields as the new user defaults editor in RAConfig. Now you don't have to leave RAUsers to view or change these settings. :-) RAUsers V 2.08 upgrade information ---------------------------------- - Copy the RAUsers.Exe and RAUsers.Ovr over the previous versions - Changed password changing for Guest accounts. RA does not want Guest accounts to have a password, so if you attempt to add or change the password of a Guest account, the account's password is cleared and a password is not needed for that account. - Added Global Changing to Messages.RA & Files.RA editors to include the groups editors for Messages and Files - Fixed the packing routine in Messages.RA. NOW will actually delete the area not just clear it's name. - Fixed and improved the Files.RA packing routine. Previously, If you attempted to delete the last area it would hang the program. - Fixed Last callers bulletin so it will not post twice or more a user who drops out and then is shown logging back on-line with a command line of RA -R or for those using a logon utility and the utility uses a RA -R command line to log the user on but puts a logging on-line entry into the RA.Log for the initial log on. RAUsers V 2.07 upgrade information ---------------------------------- - Copy the RAUsers.Exe and RAUsers.Ovr over the previous versions - Removed the Quick Use file viewer because it used an unacceptable amount of memory and remained in memory even after swapping out to EMS or XMS or Disk. - Added an automatic .Ctl file data info writing to the User editor. - While in the editor but not editing a user hit <A> and a list will pop up asking which control file to add the apporpriate user data of the displayed user to. - IE: VIP = RAUsers adds the Users Name to the VIP .ctl file located in the RA home directory - Added detection of WIN,OS/2,DesqView,DblDOS and gives up time slices if one of these is loaded. - Added sorting of usersbase just like RAUser from RA package does it. - Use commandline switch of /SORT - Will auto create the fast index after sorting - Performed some code optimization to improve speed - Changed appearance of the help screen when /? is used as a command line switch - Fixed problem with the new baud rates limits editor not changing the correct limts in 21600, 24000, 26200, 28800, 57600, 64000. RAUsers V 2.06 upgrade information ---------------------------------- - Copy the RAUsers.Exe and RAusers.Ovr over the previous versions - Added DBASE EXPORT function. Not all fields are exported but the important ones are ;-) - Added message to sysop notifying him/her of new user on BBS - Set this to YES in SETUP-->General Setup-->Write Sysop New to get a message when a newuser logs on - REG ONLY FEATURE <+> - Added quick viewing of report list generators for flags after sending the report to a file. NOTE: You must have a valid ASCII file editor defined in SETUP-->Paths/Filenames-->File View/Edit - As of this version the flag list report generators are REG ONLY <+> - Added a quick file viewer to the Utilities Menu (TurboVision style) - FIXED a BUG in global changes. If you attempted to globally change any of the attribute flags in the second window (attribute2) the incorrect flag was changed or none at all were changed. - Added the other 6 baud rates to the limits editor RAUsers V 2.05 upgrade information ---------------------------------- - Copy the RAUsers.Exe and RAusers.Ovr over the previous versions - This version now checks both the voice and data phone numbers during a phone number dupe check - Added a flagged for deletion list/report generator in Users -> Flagged for Delete - Added to dupe check the ability to use the current in use Users.bbs or you specify the Users.bbs file to use. RAUsers V 2.04 upgrade information ---------------------------------- - Copy the RAUsers.Exe and RAusers.Ovr over the previous versions - Global date format changer now also changes the date data to the new format. IE: Birthdate, Firstdate, Lastdate, Subdate So if you change your BBS date format the data of these fields is also changed to the new format ( A very important function ) - You can now create all bulletins with one command line parameter - /B /A will create all bulletins at one time - IE: Callers, Downloaders, Uploaders, Msg Posters - Example: RAUsers /B /A RAUsers V 2.03 upgrade information ---------------------------------- - Copy the RAUsers.Exe and RAusers.Ovr over the previous versions - Sysop not appearing in the Bulletins is now a Reg only feature {+} RAUsers V 2.02 upgrade information ---------------------------------- - Copy the RAUsers.Exe and RAusers.Ovr over the previous versions !!! IMPORTANT !!! - The Board number to write messages to was to small in V 2.01. It only allowed for 0 - 200. It has been changed to allow for 0 - 65000. (Should now be big enough for all)When you first start the program go to Setup>General>Msg_Board_Num and reconfigure the Board Number to write messages to. - Enhanced to subscription checking some more - At Five(5) days from expiration a message is sent to the sysop to notify him that this user is within five days of expiration - use the default built in msg or a file named sysopsub.txt which of course has to be in the same directory as the other RAUsers text files for messages which is the directory pointed to by your RA environment variable. - Added security level downgrading to subscription checking. If the date equals the users subdate then he/she is downgraded to the security level you have set in setup. Placing a value of 0 in the setup disables this downgrading ability. - Moved setup portion of filenames and paths to a seperate screen. Use SETUP>Paths/Filenames. Setup all other options in the same section. - Added menu item SWITCHES to FILE menu. - SWITCHES shows all the available command line switches, same as if you had typed: RAUsers /? - Added 2 command line switches: /VGA and /COL - /VGA = Set screen to 43/50 lines of display - /COL = Set screen to 25 lines ( Default ) - Added flag setting or resetting to subscription downgrading... - Setup in Setup > General Setup - Added Proboard log support for the last callers bulletin. You must tell RAUsers in the Setup > General Setup > BBS Type that it is a Proboard BBS and it will read the PB log file. You must also insure that the Proboard environment variable is set. IE: proboard=c:\pb - Deleted 116to117.exe & 117to118.exe from the archive. If you are upgrading from a version that old, just start from scratch. RAUsers V 2.01 upgrade information ---------------------------------- - Copy the RAUsers.Exe and RAusers.Ovr over the previous versions - Start the program with the /Default command line to set the colors to the default settings. After this initial time you are not required to use this switch any more but you may if you wish. - You may also use the colors setup from the setup menu after setting the program to defaults witht the above switch - The /S command line parameter has been changed to /Q - Added /SET as a command line parameter The added paramters for this are - Male or Female ( Who ) - B6 ( Flag to set ) Example: RAUsers /SET Male B7 - This will set flag B7 on all users who are male. [NOTE- This will probably be added as a global chg later] - Added text fading as option to setup. Set as you desire... :-) - Added the path to the RAUsers.cfg being used to the main menu screen This will end any confusion as to the one being used. - Compiled with the new RA 2.02 record structures - Added subscription date checking - If user is at 30 days and again at 15 days before expiration and you have turned on sub-checking in the setup then a message will be sent to the user. You can use the default message or a file named Subscrip.Txt in your RA directory - Added the macro @Subdate to macros list for messages text files - Changed RA Environment variable to allow for trailing backslash in RA environment IE: if you had c:\ra\ then it would fail because the program only allowed for c:\ra ^ No Backslash - Added direct write to Video or thru BIOS to setup. You will need to change this when you start RAUsers. I suggest Yes, but if you have a system that has a problem with the writes that RAUsers does then set it to No. Direct is much faster. - Need some help. A beta tester using Novell Dos 7.0 has reported that the program does not work with it. If you are using Novell Dos 7.0 and it is working then please let me know. If you are using it and it is not then also let me know. I need to figure out the difference, or if you are a programmer and know the prob then please let me know. RAUsers V 2.00 upgrade information ---------------------------------- - Copy the RAUsers.Exe and RAusers.Ovr over the previous versions - If you want, you can now have commas as the end to your macros in your text files. ( See Macros in RAUsers.Doc for more info ) RAUsers V 1.25F upgrade information ----------------------------------- - Copy the .exe and .ovr over the previous versions RAUsers V 1.24 upgrade information ---------------------------------- - Copy the RAUsers.Exe and RAusers.Ovr over the previous versions - You must now have 5 text files for messages or use the default msgs - So either edit your upgrades.txt file and rename to below or make new files... L H - - Upgrade1.Txt for Upgrade ratio1 upgrading O E --- - Upgrade2.Txt for Upgrade ratio2 upgrading O R --- - UpCalls.Txt for Calls Upgrading K E - - Newusers.Txt for Newusers message - Birthday.Txt for Birthday message - See file Macros.txt for a list of Macros you can use in text message files RAUsers V 1.23 upgrade information ---------------------------------- - Copy the RAUsers.Exe and RAusers.Ovr over the previous versions - This is a bug fix for the reg procedure only RAUsers V 1.22 upgrade information ---------------------------------- - Copy the RAusers.Exe and .OVR over the previous versions - You may set the message board to JAM or HMB - RAUsers will auto detect the message type and write the appropriate style message - Added several editors/viewers,... they are self explanatory - The DBase format export does not operate yet RAUsers V 1.21 upgrade information ---------------------------------- - Copy the RAusers.exe over the previous RAUsers.exe - Copy the RAusers.Ovr into the same directory as the RAUsers.Exe - Go to setup and set number of names for last call bulletin - Edit Birthday.Txt to your liking - If you didn't get v 1.20 ( Beta only ) rename rausers.txt to Upgrades.Txt RAUsers V 1.20 upgrade information ---------------------------------- - Just copy the RAUsers.exe over the previous RAUsers.exe - Edit Birthday.Txt to your liking - Rename RAUsers.txt, if used, to Upgrades.txt - Now also checks for NewUsers and sends the default msg or a message in file named NewUser.Txt. RAUsers V 1.19 upgrade information ---------------------------------- - Upgrade from v1.18 ------------------ Run rausers.exe and go to Setup and set Write Msg and Board num to the appropriate settings for your BBS -Upgrade from v1.16 ------------------ Follow directions for upgrading to v1.18 and then follow instructions for v1.18 to v1.19 upgrade. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RAUsers V 1.18 upgrade information ---------------------------------- If you have a version prior to V1.16 then just copy the RAUsers.exe over the previous version and setup will run upon first time execution Beta testers only: Run 117to118 to convert your config record Users of v 1.16 --------------- To convert from 116 to 118 run 116to117.exe and then 117to118.exe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RAUsers V 1.17 upgrade information ---------------------------------- Users of v 1.16 --------------- If upgrading from RAUsers v 1.16 then run 116to117.Exe Users of earlier than 1.16 -------------------------- Same as v 1.16 upgarde ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RAUsers v 1.16 upgrade information ---------------------------------- *** This upgrade info will work for all previous versions of RAUsers... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Upgrading is painless... Just copy RAUsers.exe over the previous file and when you start the program it will force you to create the new setup file used to enter default filenames for the bulletins. Registered users: ----------------- Do the same as above but after starting the program enter the setup utility from the main menu and add your registered info to the setup.