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--- WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.60 ---
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────░░────────────────┐
│ 15 Nov 96 Version 3.60 - SNEWS360.ZIP 48,267 bytes │
└────────────░░────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
This is the 10th release of Sicknews, but only the second in over a year.
(The first public release came out 24th November 1994 and was a 9k zip!).
The code has been completely rewritten since the last version. Hopefully
this doesn't mean the bugs fixed over the past 9 versions will resurface!
-- Additions (+), Changes/Fixes (*), and Removals (-) --
+ Ansi routines were completely rewritten. Many output file specific
procedures made generic. The external header files are now read into
memory before processing, minimising file access and speeding up
processing.
+ Sicknews no longer supports PCB display files. Do not despair!
PCBoard displays ANSI display files just as easily as PCB files.
+ The codes in the external header files have a new format. All or none of
these codes may be entered into your header file.
Code Format: ~ + <Insert String>
Possible Insert Strings
-----------------------
D : Date
T : Title
! : Current Bulletin Number
# : Total Amount of Bulletins.
N : Current "News Text" Line
Examples
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Code : ~D
Becomes : 01/10/96
Code : ~T
Becomes : New online door game installed!
Code : Bulletin ~! of ~#.
Becomes : Bulletin 169 of 2000.
Code : ~N
Becomes : To join in, go to the Games menu and hit (S)!
+ You can enter justification after your code.
Possible Justification Codes
----------------------------
\ : Left Justification
/ : Right Justification
| : Centered
Examples
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Code : ~T\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ ~D\\\\\\
Becomes : New online door game installed! 01/10/96
Code : ~T/////////////////////////////////////////////
Becomes : New online door game installed!
Code : ~T||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||.
Becomes : New online door game installed! .
+ The ~N code for your bulletin header adds a new dimension to Sicknews.
You can now specify a place in your S-BUL for the bulletin text to go.
If the ~N code is not present in the S-BUL file, the news text is just
placed after the bulletin header, by repeating the S-LINE file until the
entire bulletin is displayed.
+ You can now include Sicknews |xx style color codes in the date and title
of your bulletin as well as the bulletin text.
* The External Headers are now placed in a HEADERS\ subdirectory.
* Sicknews now uses TWO configuration files;
· The first, SICKNEWS.CFG, contains the following personal information:
Name of Sysop
Name of BBS
Registration Code
Maximum Amount of bulletins to process
Pathname to Ansi output
Pathname to Ascii output
Create Ansi output file? ( y | n )
Create Ascii output file?
· The second, EXTERNAL.CFG, located in your HEADERS\ subdirectory,
contains the following information about your External Header set:
# of "empty lines" between bulletins
Add First S-BUL? ( y | n )
Add Last S-BULFTR?
Clear the screen at the top of the output file?
Clear the screen before each bulletin?
Use "Kewl Color"?
Color of News Text
Color of Upper Case
Color of Lower Case
Color of Punctuation
Color of Hi-bit Ascii
Color of Numbers
The purpose of this is so that you can distribute your header set and
include the EXTERNAL.CFG file so that people can simply move the files
into their HEADERS\ subdirectory to configure their copy of Sicknews
to work with your header set.
* There are now limitations on the size of the bulletin headers.
See SICKNEWS.DOC for details.
* Processing screen completely changed, removed the % complete graph.
* The Clear2 option did not work properly (fixed).
* When you hit [F] while selecting a "kewl" color, the type of character
you are modifying will now flash.
* Documentation improved, bad language removed.
- There are no internal headers anymore, so if the external headers do
not exist in the HEADERS\ directory, Sicknews will not process.
- There is no more -Unregistered- line in the output files!