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Notes and procedures on upgrading JDR_BBS r.06 to r.07.
As promised, the .07 release consists of mostly internal optimizations. I
moved a lot of routines into overlays, freeing up lots of RAM. I wanted to
keep the number of data structure or data base format changes to a minimum.
The following files have changed or are new (*):
JDRBBS.EXE PROFILE2.ANS MNB00009.TXT
BIMODEM.CFG PROFILE4.ANS MNH00014.TXT
BLOCK.INI (BLOCK.001) REGPKG.ANS MNL00009.TXT
MENUTEXT.DAT BBS-MENU.ANS NOTNAMES.TXT
MENUTEXT.TXT CONFIG.ANS
DIRECTRY.T01 FMENU.ANS
DIRECTRY.T02 SYSOP.ANS
DIRECTRY.T03 USERMENU.ANS
BACKUP.BAT NETMAIL.ANS
SHORT.TXT DOORS.DOC
LINES.001
TESTBED.ZIP
06TO07.BAT will extract the above files from BBS.ZIP for you.
Run the program NEWSHORT.EXE to upgrade your SHORT.TXT file. This program
uses SHORT.06 and SHORT.07.
Run the program NEWLINES.EXE to upgrade your LINES.001 file. This program
uses LINES06.001 and LINES07.001.
The .ANS, "MN" .TXT, and MENUTEXT files probably do no affect you at all.
NOTNAMES.TXT, BACKUP.BAT and the DIRECTRY files have slight modifications that
you should look at.
BIMODEM.CFG added an entry for a password file pathname.
The new kid on the block is TESTBED.ZIP. It is a much more simpler and more
basic BBS (MENUTEXT.DAT and .ANS's). It might make clearer how the menu
system works.
That leaves just BLOCK.001. It's tricky (sorry).
When you first start the software, there is no BLOCK.001. There is a
BLOCK.INI. BLOCK.INI contains lots of C:\ drive specs. When BLOCK.001 is
created, it is just BLOCK.INI with it's C:\ drive specs changed to those of
the BBS (A:\, D:\, S:\, etc.).
To complicate things, I did not do a "NEWBLOCK.EXE". To uncomplicate things,
there's a good chance you did not change much in BLOCK.001 anyways.
There are two procedures to updating your BLOCK.001 file, depending on
whether you use drive C:\ or not as your BBS drive.
If you use drive C:\
1. FC BLOCK06.001 \BBS\TEXT\BLOCK.001 > out1
2. COPY BLOCK.INI \BBS\TEXT\BLOCK.001
3. Review out1, and make changes to your new BLOCK.001 that you had made
to your old BLOCK.001.
If you do not use drive C:\
1. FC BLOCK06.001 \BBS\TEXT\BLOCK.001 > out1
2. COPY BLOCK.INI \BBS\TEXT\BLOCK.001
3. Review out1, ignore the differences for block #46 (the one with all the
pathnames), but do make changes for all the other differences. So you'll
need to upgrade the text/etc. changes you had made to your old BLOCK.001,
and also to make the drive specs correct as well.
Ultimately, what you're doing is comparing the old BLOCK.001, with your
BLOCK.001, and making sure those same changes that you made are getting put
into the new BLOCK.001. NewShort and NewLines do this automatically for
SHORT.TXT and LINES.001, respectively.
(*) New to BBS.ZIP (the BBS). Changes in the source files (JDRSRCxx.ZIP),
the registered files (JDR_BBS.REG), and the files (docs/etc.) outside
BBS.ZIP are not noted here--as they all change every version.