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Brainex Door System
General Help
MOVING AROUND
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Use your mouse or arrow keys to move to the desired selection.
If you have selected DONE, hit ENTER to exit and save setup data.
Hit ESC for a quick exit from The Door Manager - no data saved!
MAIN MENU
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Configure Your BBS Node Settings
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Total Nodes:
Enter the total number of nodes for BBS. Single node
systems enter 1. You can use PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN keys
to view settings for other nodes.
System Serial Number:
Enter your Brainex Door Manager Registration number. Brainex doors
will work in DEMO mode if you have not registered the door manager.
BBS Name:
Enter the name of your BBS as you would like it to appear to callers.
Upper/Lower case sensitive.
BBS Type:
Use the spacebar or mouse buttons to toggle supported BBS types.
If your BBS is not listed, but uses DOOR.SYS as its door data file,
select GENERIC.
Sysop:
Enter the sysop's name.
BBS Version:
Enter the version number of your BBS.
Data File:
Enter the name of your BBS door data file if different from the one
automatically selected.
Path to Data:
The is the complete DRIVE\DIRECTORY\FILENAME for the door data file
for the node listed.
Comport:
Toggle the comport for this node using mouse buttons or spacebar.
Baud:
Toggle the baud rate for this node using mouse buttons or spacebar.
If you do not use a locked com port, select AUTO.
Locked Port:
Toggle the locked or unlocked baud for this node using mouse buttons or
spacebar. If you selected AUTO baud, then this setting should be NO LOCK.
Base Address:
If you wish to use a non-standard com port, type the com port base
address for this node.
IRQ:
Toggle the IRQ for this node using mouse buttons or spacebar.
Node Number:
Use spacebar or mouse buttons to toggle the node number. You may then
view or edit the information for the node.
Install or Modify a Brainex Door
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Use the arrow keys or mouse to the desired door. Hit enter, then
answer the setup questions for the door. Move to the DONE box when
you are finished.
Add or Edit External File Transfer Protocols
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Certain Brainex doors require the program DSZ.EXE, DSZ.COM, GSZ.EXE,
HSLINK.EXE, or other external file transfer programs. Enter the
DRIVE\DIRECTORY where the batch files for your external file
transfer program are located. Usually this is your BRAINEX default
directory. Enter a letter for each protocol. This letter will
be part of the options menu shown to the callers. Enter the protocol
name, and the batch file name. When finished, move to the DONE box,
then hit enter.
Add or Edit CDROM information
-----------------------------
For use with ROMBRAIN and REQUEST programs.
If you want to use more than one CDROM disk, you will need to enter
information for each disk. Place the first disk into your CDROM
drive.
CDROM Drive:
Enter the drive letter. Enter 0 only if this CDROM disk
will not be available to callers. The disk volume label will appear
in the Volume/Label box.
Disk Title:
Enter the name of the CDROM, this is what callers will see on the
Rombrain Main Menu.
Path to RomBrain Filebase:
Enter the DRIVE\DIRECTORY for the filebase base for this disk. This is
the location of the CDTYPE files. You can download them from the Brainex
BBS, or create them with the COMPILE program. Before you use COMPILE,
enter the information for each CDROM disk.
Disk Volume/Label:
Enter a volume label only if the disk is OFFLINE.
Access Level to View Directory:
Enter the user level that may view the directory of the disk.
Access Level to Download Files:
Enter the user level that may download files from this disk.
CD Type Letter:
Use mouse buttons or plus/minus (+ -) keys to toggle CDROM types.
To add another CD, use mouse or arrow keys to move to the DISK NUMBER
box, then use mouse buttons or plus/minus (+ -) keys to select a disk.
If any information is left blank, the CD information will NOT be saved.
You may delete a CDROM disk record entry by selecting DELETE.
Move to the DONE box, then hit ENTER when you are finished.
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Brainset Startup Command line options:
SOUND OFF
SOUND ON
TITLE OFF
TITLE ON
COLOR OFF (Monochrome Mode)
COLOR ON
Example:
BRAINEX COLOR OFF SOUND OFF
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Files created and/or used by Brainex:
BRAINEX.INI
Setup information is saved to the BRAINEX.INI file. This is a
plain text file. All Brainex doors share this file. You may edit this
file with any ascii text editor if you wish.
BRAINEX.HLP
This file
BRAINEX.DAT
Script file for door setup information.
MONEY.DAT
Callers money data for Brainex doors that use a money system.
BRAINEX.KEY
If this file is present, the musical title sequence will not be shown.
Overide with TITLE ON command.
REQUEST.DAT
Offline file request information for RomBrain/Request doors.
COMMENT
Text file used to replace comments in ZIP files.
Used by File Brain, RomBrain, Request doors.
LIST.COM
Used to read this help file.
Other files may be created by Brainex doors, and will be written to
the Brainex default directory.
USING DSZ AND HS-LINK WITH NON-STANDARD COM PORTS
=================================================
All Brainex doors share the same DSZ batch files. Comport settings
are passed to the batch files by the doors when they shell to DSZ.
If you have a comport that uses a non-standard IRQ or ADDRESS, you
should edit the included batch files.
DSZ:
Sample EXTSZ.BAT that uses IRQ 5 and HEX BASE ADDRESS 3E8 on NODE 3:
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REM Zmodem Send
IF %4 == 3 GOTO NODE3
DSZ port %1 ha both estimate 0 %2 sz -r-m %3
goto end
:NODE3
DSZ portx 3E8,5 ha both estimate 0 %2 sz -r-m %3
:END
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%4 will hold the node number as passed to it by the door, so if %4 is equal
to 3, the batch will goto to the :NODE3 label and run DSZ using the
portx option for non-standard IRQ and ADDRESS.
HSLINK:
Sample EXTSG.BAT that uses IRQ 5 and HEX BASE ADDRESS 3E8 on NODE 3:
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REM HS-Link Send
IF %4 == 3 GOTO NODE3
HSLINK -P%1 -E%2 -NU %3
goto end
:NODE3
HSLINK -PI5 -PB$3E8 -E%2 -NU %3
:END
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%4 will hold the node number as passed to it by the door, so if %4 is equal
to 3, the batch will goto to the :NODE3 label and run HS-LINK using the
-PI and -PB options for non-standard IRQ and ADDRESS.
All the external protocol batch files should be edited as needed.
DESQVIEW TIPS
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If you get errors using Desqview, try these settings:
Set OPTMIZE COMMUNICATIONS to YES
Set USE MATH COPROCESSOR to YES
[end of help]