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Resume Flagged v1.4
Copyright (C) 1994, by Cutting Edge Online
All rights reserved.
Programming and Documentation by John Marx
Cutting Edge Online (318) 537-7089 Voice
6372-B Kucinski Street (318) 537-7746 BBS
Fort Polk, LA 71459 Hayes Optima 28.8k
U.S.A. FidoNet: 1:3817/9
Resume Flagged v1.4
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System Requirements
The requirements for using this PPE are as follows:
a. PCBoard 15.21+ (This program was created with PPLC v3.0 and will
not work with any version less than 15.21.)
b. Enough space on your hard drive for installation of the
program.
c. It's not needed but placing this PPE and all your PPE's into
different subdirectories is helpful. This allows you to more easily update
or remove a PPE with it's accompanying files. Plus if you place more than
one PPE in a directory you may run into the program trying to use a file it
shouldn't.
This is all that is needed to run this program.
Resume Flagged v1.4
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Program Overview
Have you ever had a user accidently, always, you hang them up and they
had files flagged for download? If not I sure would like to meet you! We all
have had this happen to us and know that if we have files flagged and then
call back we have to start all over again recreating the wheel. No longer!
With the advent of "Resume Flag" you will no longer have your users griping
that they lost carrier as they will be able to reflag their download list
if they so desire or if they don't.
Some of the highlights of this program are:
■ Ease of user for both SysOp and User
■ Preview the list of files that the user had flagged
■ 100% multilingual and we MEAN it! All external files are mutligual
with you customation allowed on all of them.
■ All commands, colors, etc are 100% SysOp definable.
■ No NAG-me-to-death screens. This is a risk we're taking on our part
to make the program available to you and we hope that if you use it
you will support the shareware concept.
Just follow the step by step instructions below and you will be running
in no time.
Resume Flagged v1.4
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Program Installation
1. The first thing you will want to do is unZIP this file into it's
own subdirectory. The reason for this is simple. Some filenames
might contain the same name as another PPE and the two files most
likely aren't exactly the same so problems will probally occur if
you install all of your PPE's in the same directory.
2. You will probally want to make the following files suite your
systems color specification so we suggest you use PCBEDIT and
edit the following files to your taste. (NOTE: You don't need
to do this step if you want to just start out and keep the
default color scheme.) The files which you may wish to edit
are:
a. USERLOST -- This file is displayed to the user upon logon if
the program detects that they have a flagged
file list available. This asks whether they want
to flag the new list (yes or no) or view it.
3. You will now need to edit a LOGIN file. This could be a file
called LOGIN which for 99% of the population is. To edit this
LOGIN file you will need to do the following:
a. Load PCBSETUP.EXE
b. Type B for File Locations
c. Type D for New User/Logon/off Questionnaires
d. Press the down arrow TWO times
e. You should now be ontop of a file called D:\PCB\GEN\LOGIN
or something similar. This is on the line that says:
Name/Location of Login File
f. Press F2 edit
g. Add the following line
!d:\pcb\ppe\resume\logon.ppe
NOTE: The paths will most likely be different from my system
to yours so your will need to make the appropriate changes.
Also, take heed of the LOGIN at the end! This may be upper,
lower case, or mixed case but must be there. Nothing will be
displayed to the user. This is to set the user up for when
they logoff the system. If this is not there your bulletin
may not reflect what the user actually did while online
during their stay on your system.
4. You will need to edit your logoff file in the same manner. This is
in the same area as the login file. You would just add this for
line (g) above.
!d:\pcb\ppe\resume\logoff.ppe
4a. We've found that many systems don't have the same setup as ours.
As such their systems don't call the logoff script file when they
drop carrier as mine currently does. I don't know exactly why
mine does and others don't, so I've come up with a fix to make
certain others systems can use this program. If you want you may
edit your PCBTEXT files so that line 215 contains the following:
!d:\pcb\ppe\resume\logoff.ppe
5. This is an optional procedure, but if you would like it then
please go ahead and install it. This will allow you to remove the
files flagged for download for the user. This has become a very
popular add-on. Instead of having to press d and answering no to
the download the flagged files the user could type something like
clear and enter and be done. To add this command you will need to
do the following:
a. Load PCBSETUP.EXE
b. Type B for File Locations
c. Type B for Configuration Files
d. Press the down arrow until you're ontop of CMD.LST.
e. Press F2 edit
f. Add the following line
Command Security What it Does
------- -------- --------------------------------
CLEAR 10 d:\pcb\ppe\resume\clear.ppe
NOTE: The paths will most likely be different from my system
to yours so your will need to make the appropriate changes.
Also, take heed of the LOGIN at the end! This may be upper,
lower case, or mixed case but must be there. Nothing will be
displayed to the user. This is to set the user up for when
they logoff the system. If this is not there your bulletin
may not reflect what the user actually did while online
during their stay on your system.
That's all there is to it! Enjoy!
Resume Flagged v1.4
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Possible Error Codes
There are several reasons for error codes. The main reason is something
went wrong in the program. Even though all efforts have been made to remove
any and all possible errors there still may be some configuration we haven't
thought of. As such we've included extensive error checking in all of our
programs to eliminate any and all possible errors.
Errors will be shown to the caller on the screen explaining what went
wrong and why if the program can determine without a doubt what it was.
All errors will be logged to the callers log! This allows you to
correct any problems that your users might not tell you. A lot of times when
an error occurs the users like "that's nice." We feel that even as nice as
it would be for the user to explain to the SysOp what they were doing when
such errors occur, we know not to expect it so we've added this to the code
as well. When it logs this information to the callers log it also logs the
exact saying that it gave to the user. This gives you the most complete
information we can.
You may also wish to check out the "Frequently Asked Questions" at the
end of this document for it may cover a question you are currently having
about PCBoard and PPE's.
Resume Flagged v1.4
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Contacting the Author
I can be reached on either my BBS or through my home phone number at any
time. If I'm not home and you receive the answering machine just leave your
name and number with a short explanation, if you can, of the problem. I WILL
call you back as soon as I can and if you gave me a description of your
problem will more than likely have an answer for you when I do call you back.
When you do call us with information about a bug in the program please
give us the following information. This information will help us determine
what the problem is:
1. Program name and version number.
2. Type and brand of computer, hard disk, plus any peripherals.
3. Version of DOS plus any TSRs or device drivers in use.
4. Explanation of your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files.
5. Description of what is in memory from the MEM command (DOS 4
and above users only) or a similar utility.
6. The exact problem you are having. Please be as specific as
possible. Having a printout of the screen and/or being at your
computer will be helpful.
The Cutting Edge Online BBS operates 24 hours a day, is using a Hayes
Optima 28.8k modem, PCBoard 15.2/10 and the number is (318) 537-7746. You
will be able to download if you wish on the first call. There are no
callback doors. We do use CALLER-ID for just this purpose. I personally
don't like callback doors and am sure many others feel the same. We've
recently upgraded the system bringing the system to 13.2 Gigs online with
5 CD-ROMs.
I'm available also on the PCBoard Support BBS, Salt Air. I only call
once a week, normally on Saturday so the replies won't be as quick as you may
like. I'm also in the FidoNet PCBoard, PCB-Net conferences. Our FidoNet
address is 1:3817/9.
If you have a problem, suggestion, comment, download or just wish to
talk please call and we will be more than glad to serve you. We're not happy
until YOU are happy so let us know if we're doing something wrong. If we're
doing it right tell your fellow PCBoard SysOps, if not tell US!