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- WhizPad, version 1.01
- by Patrick Lam ("Whiz Kid")
- A notepad utility primarily for FOSSIL-based BBS systems
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- WhizPad is a little TSR utility that allows users to combine all
- their replies into one post. In other words, it'll help get rid of
- those annoying one-line posts which clog up all your message bases, I'm
- sure. It helps organize replies so that it's not necessary to go back
- and delete a reply to something the person has cleared up already.
- Notepads are a very popular feature around the 514 area, at least on
- WWIV BBSes, and the inspiration for this NotePad came from an Apple II
- BBS program, AppleNET, written by Derek Fong. I chose the commands
- because they will not appear to favor one system over another. It can
- also be used by remote callers, but I suggest that if you can run
- WhizPad, use it on the host BBS instead, it works better that way.
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- WhizPad takes up 22.7 k of RAM with the abort function
- installed,. and 16.7k without the abort installed. The executable file
- is only about 8k long because it's written in C and assembler. It did
- take over a thousand lines of code to write though, and the small size
- does NOT mean it was an easy project, by any means!
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- To run WhizPad, you must use a FOSSIL driver. RemoteAccess and
- Telegard 2.7 both require FOSSIL drivers, so that's not a problem. I've
- only tested WhizPad with X00 by Ray Gwinn, but it should also work with
- BNU. It only captures the FOSSIL interrupt, though, so it should not
- conflict with any other TSRs.
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- The command-line options are as follows:
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- PAD x[aediul]
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- x: the comport that you've configured the BBS to
- use in the initialization program. (FOSSIL comport)
- a: disables the abort feature, and frees up 8k of memory
- e: re-enable the WhizPad (default)
- d: disable the WhizPad temporarily (use for file-transfers!)
- i: install WhizPad (default)
- u: uninstall WhizPad, if possible
- l: local mode only, no modem routines
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- To pop up the WhizPad, use the Ctrl-] key, then type in your
- reply. Then, Ctrl-O will upload the contents to the BBS. The * command
- in the WhizPad activates commands.
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- *A aborts the WhizPad and reverts to the contents
- BEFORE you entered the WhizPad
- *D deletes a line or lines from the WhizPad
- *E edits a line of the WhizPad, allowing you to
- enter a new line
- *I inserts a line into the WhizPad
- *K kills (erases) the contents of the WhizPad
- *R replaces a phrase in the WhizPad
- *S saves the WHizPad
-
- Future versions of WhizPad will include a whole bunch of
- improvements, probably including full-screen ANSI/AVATAR editing, in
- color, and many other things I will think of. Even though WhizPad is
- not crippleware and will work completely unregistered, it's not free.
- You're supposed to register it if you use it on your BBS. If you don't
- want to, there's nothing I can do about it, but I would greatly
- appreciate honesty. [nudge, nudge] See the file REGISTER.FRM for
- details on registering.
-
- The suggested donation is $10, though more is OK. I will not
- release the full-screen portion of the code in the next Unregistered
- versions, but it will be in the Registered versions. That is, I will
- probably release a new version with new features, but the full-screen
- editor will be disabled. $20 will get a personalised version, saying:
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- WhizPad. Registered to Bleah BBS, (000)000-0000
- * 1st char on line for editing functions, Ctrl-Z for save and quit.
- (Ctrl-O uploads pad to BBS)
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- with your BBS's name instead of Bleah BBS, (000)000-0000.
-
- Feedback is encouraged, at the following addresses. You'll
- probably get the fastest replies on the Grilled Cheese, WWIVnet and
- local BBSes.
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- FidoNet:
- Patrick Lam @ 1:167/179 (Le Labo)
- 1:167/155 (Grilled Cheese BBS)
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- WWIVnet:
- Whiz Kid @5485, @5475
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- Local BBSes:
- Utopia Planitia
- 514-923-3812
- Sysops: The Apple Man, Eagle-Eyes
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- Empire Headquarters BBS
- 514-444-9266
- Sysops: Cyprus, Crackman, and Iceman
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- Snail-mail:
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- 2780 Honore Beaugrand
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- H1L 5Y3
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- - Patrick Lam
- "Whiz Kid"
-