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- | TGBDAY v1.00 Documentation
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- | Telegard Monthly Birthday Bulletin Generator
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- | Copyright 1991,1992 by Tim Strike and
- | Forbidden Knights [BBS] Software Systems and Programming.
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- INTRODUCTION
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- For use with Telegard 2.7. If used with any other versions of
- TG, TGBDAY could cause unpredictable and unrepairable results.
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- How many times have you wanted to know the birthday's of users
- for a certain month, but found the current utilities only made daily
- listings, and you didn't feel like searching your userlist? Well,
- TGBDAY was designed to make a bulletin of birthdays for a whole
- MONTH rather then just day - this allows you and other users to
- quickly "glance" at the list, and see whom they should wish a happy
- birthday!
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- COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS
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- TGBDAY requires at least two command line parameters, and
- depending on which function of TGBDAY you are attempting to
- run.
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- syn: TGBDAY [GFILES_PATH] [OUTPUT_FILE]
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- The Gfiles_Path is the path to where you store your USER.LST
- and other files. This is needed to load the "USER.LST" and default
- colours.
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- The OutPut_File is the .MSG that will be created. It will be
- created in whatever directory TGBDAY is in unless you specify a
- location (suggested location is AFILES).
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- syn: TGBDAY [GFILES_PATH] /SETUP
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- By making the second parameter /SETUP, TGBDAY will jump into
- setup mode and allow you to configure the colours for the bulletin
- generated. (It's all self explanitory - you are given the list of
- standard colours (from TG) and then prompted for values for certain
- colours. Hitting [ENTER] will accept the default).
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- VERSIONS
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- This will contain UPDATE info for future releases, as well as
- some bugs fixes and a general summary of all the new features added.
- Please read this section of the documentation on every update if you
- don't plan on reading any of the other inform
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- +:New Feature *:Updated (Fixed) Feature $:Wide Beta Feature
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- v1.00
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- + Written in Turbo Pascal v6.0.
- + First release to the general public.
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- LEGALITIES
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- WARRANTY
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- TGBDAY is provided as-is, without a warranty of any kind,
- either expressed or implied. It is only guaranteed to occupy
- disk space, nothing more. Under no circumstances shall the
- author be liable to you or anyone else for any damages,
- including (but not limited to) any lost profits, lost savings
- or other incidental or consequential damages arising out of the
- use or misuse of this program.
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- In other words; RUN THIS PROGRAM AT YOUR OWN RISK. You
- yourself, and nobody else is responsible for the outcome of
- choosing to run this program.
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- But NEVER the less, all care should be taken whenever
- you run new programs on your system. Files opened by TGBDAY
- include USER.LST, only file written by TGBDAY is the output
- file (which is rewritten everytime).
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- Make backups of these files, and continue to make backups of
- all your files used with BBSs. Trust me; I've had way to many
- crashes, and it's always good to have a backup.
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- Again, run this program at your own risk.
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- COPYRIGHT
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- The program, and all documents and files included in the
- TGBDAY release package are copyrighted to Tim Strike and
- Forbidden Knights [BBS] Software Systems. They are not to be
- modified in any way, shape or form; However the distribution
- archive may be changed from ARJ so long as no files are added
- nor removed.
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- TGBDAY can not be included on any distribution diskette,
- nor can it be included in any distribution archive without the
- prior written consent of Tim Strike.
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- CREDITS
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- All brand and product names referenced in this document are
- trademarks, registered trademarks, or copyrighted works of their
- respective holders.
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- REGISTRATION?
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- [ Begin Critic Mode ]
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- I require absolutely NO registration for this program. I see
- no reason why ANY author should charge registration for something so
- small. Yes, you run it everyday, whooppie who da day. Registration
- spoils the fun, and also makes many people who can't program go
- broke from paying registrations to simple programs. ANY author who
- charges for software similar to mine should go jump off a cliff. If
- I can program equivalent programs, I will. Payment is for those who
- are greedy. See, I started off programming this for my use only,
- and it eventually made it's way to be released. So, if I've already
- gotten the return I originally expected, why should I charge?
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- This is not to say I don't agree with registering software. I
- do; if the author has put a lot of time and effort into the program
- and the registration is reasonable. I've made a sincere promise to
- myself that no program of mine that is simple will require
- registration. I've also made a promise to myself that if I do plan
- to charge registration, it will always be cheap and affordable,
- paying less for quality is my concept.
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- I'm not meaning to direct this at any specific person. I have
- however looked at many programs in the past and just recently, that
- are good programs, but ruined by greedy programmers. Leave the
- cheating of people to the corrupt politicians (not saying that all
- politicians are ;) and let normal computer users enjoy a hobby that
- is already expensive enough!
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- So, to any author who charges for simple software, including
- simple editors etc, my suggestion is STOP asking for registration.
- I do this as a hobby, it's fun, but it's better to know that people
- like my program and use it, rather then having people going 'MY GOD
- $15 DOLLARS FOR A MASTER FILE LIST GENERATOR?' .. Lame, honest to
- goodness, lame. Greed goes beyond that of just asking for money, I
- wouldn't mind so much if it was something that a lot of work was put
- into, or even if the support was absolutly great .. But I see people
- just charging for something really simple, going 'Send me $10 for
- the userlist generator' .. gimme a break people, do you absolutely
- feel you deserve recognition for your work? If you do, then the
- gratitude of others should be enough to overpower your greed.
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- So, again, this program is FREE of charge. Absolutely no money
- down, no payment .. ever. If you really want to send me something,
- umm, a nice little message saying 'I like your program, and I use it
- all the time' is all I really need to make my day.
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- [ End Critic Mode ]
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- (If you are an author and wish to adapt this message to include with
- one of your programs, please contact myself and give me full
- credit, but you are all free to spread this message against greed.)
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- CONTACTING THE AUTHOR
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- I may be reached by sending netmail to TeleNet Canada Node
- 20:22/0 or FidoNet Node 1:259/423. You may also choose to post a
- message to me through either the TeleNet Canada Telegard
- Conference, or through the Telegard Support Conference distributed
- via Telegard Beta Sites.
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- I may also be reached via my own board, Forbidden Knights at
- [416]820-7273. 2400-14,400 HST. Before 4:00am, after 6:00am.
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- Any changes or updates that need to be made to TGBDAY v1.00
- will be made a new version will be released. Further
- suggestions, comments and/or bug reports can be directed through one
- of the above methods.
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- Anyways, I hope you will enjoy the use of TGBDAY v1.00. It
- didn't take to long to produce, but hopefully you'll be pleasantly
- surprised with this program.
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- Enjoy fully.
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- Sincerely,
- Tim Strike, Forbidden Knights [BBS] Software Systems and Programming.
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