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- TCB [Today's Callers Bulletin] v2.01 Robert Bingleman
- Second (and final, God willing!) release version. February 21st, 1993
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- Revision history, versions 1.00α ─ 2.01 ─ Catastrophe of '93.
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- Version 1.00α [09/29/92] ≡≡≡ TCB debuts to worldwide acclaim on Sep. 29th,
- ≡≡≡ 1992. I had been working on it for just over
- ≡≡≡ a week, and it was tested for almost 2 days.
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- Bugs:
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- φ Parser choked on Ctrl-Z in CNF file, causing an unintelligible error for
- anyone who used an editor that put a Ctrl-Z at the end of the file. Ugh!
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- φ Header colours were screwed up badly if colours were changed in the
- SYSOPNAME or BBSNAME strings.
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- φ Spaces could not be used in border strings because the INSIDE and OUTSIDE
- lines were not quote-enclosed type strings.
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- φ A couple of peculiar circumstances caused the parser to read log entries
- that should have been skipped (invalid log-ins and so on), creating
- especially uninformative entries in the bulletins.
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- Version 2.01 [02/21/93] ≡≡≡ Quite a version leap. I see that there's
- ≡≡≡ a similar utility out there (LASTON, is it?)
- ≡≡≡ that's up to version 5-point-something. Sad!
- ≡≡≡ I hope he's getting paid for it! hahaha
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- Fixes:
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- φ All of the above bugs were fixed (or so I'd like to think).
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- Improvements (?):
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- φ Added ANSICR and ASCIICR flags, so that a bulletin can be made a full 80
- characters wide if your users don't have a problem with "wrapping".
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- φ Added TOTALC, HEADERC, and LABELC colour variables to set the colours of,
- respectively, the "totals" line, header lines, and labels.
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- φ Added _BUFFER variable so that the sysop might play around with the size
- of the file buffers that TCB allocates. The default is a (safe?) 5120
- bytes/file, but can be reduced to accomodate low-memory or increased to
- speed up file access.
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- φ Added $IGNORE block, where the sysop can define which users should be
- excluded from the bulletin(s).
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- φ Modified ZEROC. Now, if the colour is 8x, the background of any zero-
- value columns will remain as defined in the CONFIG line, while the
- foreground will change to the 'x' colour.
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- φ Changed INSIDEC and OUTSIDEC to quote-enclosed strings (so that spaces
- and colour codes could be used), added a bunch of other characters (to
- accomodate wilder configuration options), and mixed the order around
- (just for the hell of it).
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- φ Support for multiple logfiles (up to 16) and, thus, multi-node systems.
- It doesn't work as fast as it might, for various reasons, but I think it
- does work well enough.
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- φ Added MULTINODE flag to indicate whether multiple logfiles may be used.
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- φ Added CONFIG Field Type W to display the node that the call came in on.
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- φ Improved documentation, including a 132-column reference card.
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- Black Monday 2 [03/21/93] ≡≡≡ No, no new version, but this is certainly
- ≡≡≡ a noteworthy day in the History of TCB; due
- ≡≡≡ to a ridiculously stupid mistake on my part,
- ≡≡≡ I just backed up a blank 3.5" disk onto my
- ≡≡≡ development drive. The most recent source I
- ≡≡≡ have is for a slightly mod'd v1.00!
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