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SLNAME
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SLNAME is an external program designed to be a more personalized
logoff screen. It takes the user's name, and turns it into an
ANSI style version, with the letters being larger, and in random
colors. If the user doesn't have color, then it merely says
goodbye in the normal text fashion.
SLNAME was written by me during the days I thought I was going to
be some major BBS programmer. To date, I have only written one
other BBS external program. I guess the idea of having a door which
was written in QuickBASIC ver. 2.0 didn't appeal to most SYSOPs.
At any rate, I made it to run under Searchlight BBS software. This
was the BBS software I was using at the time. I would also like to
take this opportunity to disclaim myself from any adverse effects
this program might have on your system. I mean sheesh, I wrote it
on an old Tandy TL/2 (80286), so I'm not sure of how it may act
on other systems. So if you experience lock-ups, or something
else which you are not happy with, simply don't run SLNAME.
SETUP
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First, unzip all files into a directory of your choice. For
the sake of this .DOC we'll say C:\SLBBS\SLNAME will be the
directory to use.
Run SLBBS's CONFIG.EXE file, and go into AutoDoors Setup. From
there choose the LogOff AutoDoor Setup. Here's how it should
look:
1. Command ..................... NAME.BAT %U %G
2. Directory Path .............. C:\SLBBS\SLNAME
3. Communications Support ...... Force-Color
4. Abort Method ................ Terminate
You should include the .BAT extension so SL won't go looking for
NAME.EXE. The %U is the username with any spaces replaced with
the underscore bar ( _ ). Don't worry, the _ will then be turned
back to a space in SLNAME, but you MUST use this parameter. The
%G is the graphics mode of the user. If the mode is anything other
than C (color) SLNAME will merely print
GOODBYE:
USER NAME
The Directory Path should be pretty understandable. This is
the drive and path where the SLNAME program files reside.
Communications Support MUST be set to Force-Color, otherwise
the user will not see the display even though the SYSOP of
the host computer sees everything just fine. I think this is
because of the way that QuickBASIC 2.0 does it's screen writes.
Abort Methos is the action that Searchlight takes if carrier
is dropped while running this door. Terminate will stop SLNAME
and return to SLBBS. Some PCs may experience lockups if carrier
is dropped, in which case you may want to set the Abort Method
to Re-Boot. This will Re-Boot your PC. Obviously, for this to
work properly for you, you must include a statement in your
AUTOEXEC.BAT file which loads SLBBS on bootup.
I've taken out a couple bugs since my first attempt at SLNAME.
The first one would not display the dark gray color to the
user, so I eliminated that. Also, I had to include a statement
which took different action if the user's name was too large
(longer than 19 characters).
I thought about making this program shareware, and having you
send me $10 if you like it, but what the hell. I've used
enough shareware programs without registering them, that I
decided to just make this thing FreeWare! Besides, who's really
going to send money for it?
If, however, you have some comments you'd like to let me
know of, I can be reached on the Cleveland Freenet. Send
Email to aj423.
Dewey Thompson