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- ReadMe File for I'd Love 2 But ... (Version 2.0)
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- 0. Intro
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-
- Congratulations on choosing I'd Love 2 But ..., the random excuse generator,
- and now also fortune cookie generator, this program will still give you that
- all important excuse for just about anything, but it now also contains nuggets
- of useless information and pithy sayings that you can amaze your friends with,
- and it still has the facility to allow you to add your own excuses and fortunes
- to the already provided versions. Also available at no extra cost (since I'd Love
- 2 But ... is free) is a program that will convert UNIX style fortune cookie files
- into I'd Love 2 But ... fortune cookie files, see the Fortune update section for
- details.
-
- There are now two flavours of I'd Love 2 But ..., the full and the lite version,
- the lite version is for those with little diskspace, and simply contains fewer
- fortunes (though with over 600 in the lite version that is still a lot) to conserve
- your precious memory.
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- 1. Installation
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- Installing I'd Love 2 But ... couldn't be easier (well it could, if I could afford
- the Development Kit and could create .SIS files) simply create a folder in your
- \System\Apps folder called IdLove2 and copy all the files from the archive (you
- don't actually need this one if your short on space). When you next check your
- extra's bar, you'll find a nice shiny IdLove2 Icon sitting ready for use.
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- 2. Using I'd Love 2 But ...
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- The operation has changed slightly, the program is designed to stay resident (but
- only the OPL part, not the fortunes), when you click on the Icon if it is running
- already it is brought to the foreground and displays either an excuse or a fortune
- in a standard dialog.
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- If you want to change it's behaviour for future call ups simply click on the
- Config button and you'll be allowed to select the behaviour of your choice, there
- are two options:
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- On Startup - When the machine is turned on you can choose I'd Love 2 But ...
- to do one of three things, either Nothing, or display either an
- excuse or a fortune.
- On Open - When you open I'd Love 2 But ... (click on it's extra's bar icon,
- or select if from the task list) the program can display either
- an excuse or a fortune.
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- The default options are to display a Fortune Cookie on Startup and an Excuse on Open,
- but you may prefer it the other way around, or even nothing to happen when you startup
- the choice is, as they say, yours.
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- Clicking on the Quit button removes I'd Love 2 But ... from the task list, it will
- no longer bring up a fortune or excuse on startup, however since the program uses very
- little in the way of memory (and processing time) you may prefer to leave it running in
- the background, to pop up whenever you need inspiration or an excuse.
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- 3. Uninstalling I'd Love 2 But ...
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- If you really want to simply delete the folder IdLove2 from your System\Apps folder,
- but makesure you've shut down I'd Love 2 But ... first, since the .APP file wont delete
- unless it's closed, and it's easy to leave it running and not realise.
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- 4. Makeing extra excuses and fortunes
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- 4.1 Extra excuses
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- To add excuses to the database simply open the \System\Apps\IdLove2 folder and open the
- database file Excuses, make new entries in the database, delete ones you don't like and
- exit, the database will automatically be updated.
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- 4.2 Extra fortunes
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- You could simply open the Fortunes file (also in \System\Apps\IdLove2 folder) in data and
- enter new excuses here, there are three lines of data line1,line2 and line3 (imaginative
- titles I know) but there is an easier and faster method, simply find a UNIX style fortune
- file (these are text files, using a % sign as a seperator) and run the DOS program ConvFort
- on them (ConvFort is downloadable from my Website at http://www.dudleysoft.com/psion.html)
- using the following command:
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- ConvFort <inputfile> <outputfile> [<skip>]
-
- where skip is the number of fortunes to skip, if you leave this off every fortune will be
- concidered, the default value for this 0. For example if your fortune file is called
- SCENE.DAT and you wanted to create a new file called SCENE.TSV (Tab seperated value)
- concidering every other fortune simply type:
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- ConvFort SCENE.DAT SCENE.TSV 1
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- for every fourth fortune type
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- ConvFort SCENE.DAT SCENE.TSV 3
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- you will now create a fortune file that contains fortunes of 3 lines or less from the
- original file, now to get those into I'd Love 2 But ..., firstly open the original
- fortune file into Data (click on it in the System\Apps\IdLove2 folder) then create a
- new Data file, this will use the same format as the Fortune file, now select More>Import
- from the File menu. Select the file you've created using ConvFort, select options and
- select None for Text Qualifier, and Tab for Label Seperator, leave Entry Seperator as
- End Of Line. Now import this into your new database. Once you've done this simply copy
- your new fortunes file over the existing fortunes file (\System\Apps\IdLove2\Fortunes)
- and your new fortunes will be ready to use.
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- 5. Contacting DudleySoft
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- The easiest way to contact me is via e-mail, my e-mail address is:
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- dudley@dudleysoft.com
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- As you can see, it's really easy to remember (infact at the moment <anything>@dudleysoft.com)
- will make it's way to me, but I don't recommend this action since this may change in the
- future), you can also visit my website at http://www.dudleysoft.com.
-
- If you have any good excuses, or wonderful fortune files then don't hesitate to send
- them to me (MIME encoded, or UUencoded attachments only) and they may well end
- up included in a future release, with suitable credits given to whoever sent them in.
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