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- SFDOOR
- Version 1.0
- Copyright (C) by Mike Woltz, 1991
- Buffalo Creek Software
- A Member Of
- The Association Of Shareware Professionals
-
-
- INTRODUCTION
- ------------
- SFDOOR is a utility written by Mike Woltz, author of SPITFIRE
- Bulletin Board System. SFDOOR is written in assembler language
- which contributes to its quick execution and small file size.
- SFDOOR is a utility that allows SPITFIRE Sysops to create, add
- to or delete entries from SPITFIRE's SFDOOR.MNU file. SFDOOR
- also allows the Sysop to review and/or modify SFDOOR.MNU.
-
-
- USAGE
- -----
- SFDOOR should be executed from SPITFIRE's home directory, where
- SFDOOR.MNU is located. If you attempt to execute SFDOOR and no
- SFDOOR.MNU is found, SFDOOR.COM will display the following prompt:
-
- SFDOOR.MNU was not found!
- Do you wish to create one? [Y/n]
-
- If you respond with "n", you are returned to the DOS prompt. Pressing
- Enter or responding with a "y" will display the SFDOOR menu. If
- you execute SFDOOR and a SFDOOR.MNU is found, the SFDOOR menu
- is automatically displayed.
-
- The SFDOOR menu looks like this:
-
- >>>>>>>>>>> SFDOOR MENU <<<<<<<<<<<<
-
- <A>........Add/Change A Door Listing
- <D>............Delete A Door Listing
- <R>................Review SFDOOR.MNU
- <S>..................Save SFDOOR.MNU
- <Q>.............................Quit
-
- Enter Selection:
-
- Each option will be discussed individually below to explain how
- it works.
-
- <A>....Add/Change A Door Listing
-
- Selecting this option, produces this submenu:
-
- >>>>>>>>>>> SFDOOR MENU <<<<<<<<<<<<
-
- <A>.............Add New Door Listing
- <C>..Change An Existing Door Listing
-
- Enter Selection:
-
- If for any reason, you have selected this option by
- mistake, pressing the ESC key will return you to the
- original SFDOOR menu.
-
- <A>.............Add New Door Listing
-
-
- After selecting <A>, you are prompted to:
-
- Enter Door Title:
-
- Simply enter the title. What you enter here will display
- on the menu as the name for this door. You will note
- that SFDOOR will automatically capitalize the first
- character of each word in the title.
-
- After entering the title, a second menu appears:
-
- >>>>> DOOR SECURITY ACCESS MENU <<<<<<
-
- <G>..Greater Than Or Equal To Security
- <L>.....Less Than Or Equal To Security
- <E>..................Equal To Security
-
- Enter Selection:
-
- Selecting <G>..Greater Than Or Equal To Security will require
- that only callers with security equal to or greater than
- the security assigned to this door will have access to the
- door.
-
- Selecting <L>..Less Than Or Equal To Security will require
- that only callers with a security equal to or less than the
- security assigned to this door will be granted access to
- the door.
-
- Selecting <E>..Equal To Security will require that only
- callers with a security equal to the security assigned
- to this door will be granted access to the door.
-
-
- The last step required for adding a door is to assign it
- a security level. SFDOOR will display the prompt:
-
- Enter security level:
-
- and it is here that you can enter any security, ranging
- from 0 up to 9999.
-
- This completes the process required to add a door listing
- to SFDOOR.MNU. SFDOOR will display the new door listing
- it has added to the SFDOOR.MNU. An example might look
- like this:
-
- Guess A Number,SEC>=10
-
- SFDOOR will also provide the following prompt:
-
- Your SF.BAT file will probably
- need to be altered accordingly!
-
- as a reminder that the commands required to execute the
- door must still be set up in your SF.BAT file.
-
-
- It should also be noted that if you attempt to add a door, and
- your SFDOOR.MNU contains the maximum amount of doors allowed
- by SPITFIRE (24), the following prompt will display:
-
- Your maximum amount of door
- listings are already in use!
-
-
- <C>..Change An Existing Door Listing
-
- When you select this option, SFDOOR will display the following
- prompt:
-
- Change which door listing? [A B C D E F]
-
- where [A B C D E F] represents the list of doors and your selection
- should correspond to the door you wish to modify. [A B C D E F]
- is variable according to the number of doors you have available
- on your system. If you have the maximum number of doors this
- would range from A to Z, with the exception of G and Q.
-
- After you have selected the door listing you wish to modify,
- that line of your SFDOOR.MNU will be displayed to the screen.
-
- You are then prompted with:
-
- Do you wish to continue? [y/N]
-
- N will return you to the menu, Y will allow you to make
- changes to the listing selected.
-
- From this point, changing a door listing is very similar
- to adding a new door listing. You are prompted to enter
- the door title, the security access of G, L or E (as
- described above) and the security that will be assigned
- to the door. Again, when you have completed your modifications
- SFDOOR will display a reminder that your SF.BAT may need to
- be modified.
-
- <D>.............Delete A Door Listing
-
- When you select this option, SFDOOR will display the following
- prompt:
-
- Delete which door listing? [A B C D E F]
-
- where [A B C D E F] represents the list of doors and your selection
- should correspond to the door you wish to delete. [A B C D E F]
- is variable according to the number of doors you have available
- on your system. If you have the maximum number of doors this
- would range from A to Z, with the exception of G and Q.
-
- After you have selected the door listing you wish to delete, that
- line of your SFDOOR.MNU will be displayed to the screen.
-
- You are then prompted with:
-
- Do you wish to continue? [y/N]
-
- N will return you to the menu, Y will remove that line from the
- door listing of SFDOOR.MNU, thus, deleting the door.
-
- SFDOOR will also provide the following prompt:
-
- Your SF.BAT file will probably
- need to be altered accordingly!
-
- This is extremely important when deleting a door! When a line
- is deleted from SFDOOR.MNU, the lines that follow are now each
- associated with a new letter. Therefore, the letter associated
- with each door no longer corresponds to the letter previously
- associated with that particular door.
-
- As an example, let's assume a board has 3 doors; A, B and C.
- If door B is deleted when the changes are saved, the listing is
- removed from SFDOOR.MNU and what was door C now becomes door B.
-
- Therefore, it becomes extremely important to ensure your SF.BAT
- commands correspond to the appropriate door.
-
-
- <R>...............Review SFDOOR.MNU
-
- Selecting this option, will display the contents of the SFDOOR.MNU
- file. If you have made any changes since beginning SFDOOR, those
- changes will also be displayed, even though the changes have not
- been saved. When reviewing the SFDOOR.MNU, if you have a large
- number of doors, the screen will fill and you are prompted to
- Press your favorite key to continue..., to continue reviewing the
- remainder of the list. After the entire door listing has displayed
- you are again be prompted with, Press your favorite key to
- continue..., which will return you to the SFDOOR menu.
-
- <S>.................Save SFDOOR.MNU
-
- Selecting this option, will save the SFDOOR.MNU file. However,
- if you attempt to quit without saving your changes, SFDOOR
- will prompt you to save the modifications you have made.
-
-
- <Q>..............................Quit
-
- Selecting this option, returns you to the DOS prompt. If you
- have selected Quit, after making changes to your SFDOOR.MNU
- file and not saved the changes, SFDOOR will prompt you with:
-
- Save changes? [Y/n]
-
- Selecting "y" will allow the modifications made to the SFDOOR.MNU
- file to be saved prior to returning to DOS. Selecting "n" ignores
- any changes made and simply returns you to the DOS prompt.
-
- Pressing the ESC key will produce the same results as selecting
- <Q> to Quit. If you have made changes, you will be prompted
- as to whether the changes should be saved and if no changes have
- been made, you are simply returned to the DOS prompt.
-
-
- DISTRIBUTION
- ------------
-
- SFDOOR is distributed under the shareware concept. You are
- free to distribute the SFDOOR program as long as it remains
- unmodified and no fee is charged. If you continue to use this
- program after an adequate evaluation period a fee is required.
- A $1.00 fee is required of register SFDOOR.
-
-
- DISCLAIMER
- ----------
-
- Mike Woltz and/or Buffalo Creek Software shall in no way be
- held responsible for any damage incurred while operating SFDOOR.
- All responsibility lies with the user of the software.
-
- The documentation for SFDOOR is contributed by Jacque
- Shipley and The Mother Board BBS. The shareware version of
- SPITFIRE and other SPITFIRE utilities are available for download
- from:
-
- Buffalo Creek's BBS The Mother Board BBS
- Mike Woltz, Sysop Jacque Shipley, Sysop
- (515) 225-8496 (515) 986-3464
- 38400/19200/9600/2400/1200 Baud 19200/9600/2400/1200 Baud
-