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'Quick Chat' Version 1.0
Written by: Joe Hochstuhl
Associated Professional's Connection
Forward:
For months, I looked in vain for a decent, down to earth
little chat program. My requirements were simply,
something easy and quick to set-up, useful in drop to DOS
applications, and reasonably decent looking.
Instead I found only complicated routines requiring much
set-up. Dependant upon running in certain environments,
basically nothing in which I would have been interested
in.
So, tossing in the towel on my search, I got carried away
and wrote the code for Quick Chat. Quick Chat is
everything I needed. Simple, looks good, requires little
to no set-up, and very flexible in a "Drop to DOS"
situation. As most SysOp's use Doorway for their drop to
DOS, I made Quick Chat so that it runs under DoorWay,
Marshall Dudley's little miracle of a program that no
SysOp should be without.
Shareware Notice:
Quick Chat is shareware. I do not cripple my programs,
never have, never will. Instead, I added an annoying
little beginning screen that exists in the unregistered
version. This 10 second registration screen goes away
with registration of Quick Chat. I do not ask much. A
small contribution of $10.00 will get you a registration
key for 'Quick Chat'. Other than that, the program is
100% operational.
PLEASE!! Support the shareware concept. Over the years,
the shareware marketing strategy has enabled end users to
buy programs at reasonable rates as opposed to the
commercial market. In fact, the impact of Shareware has
forced prices on commercial software lower than they would
have been without shareware competition.
APC Software's is almost a religious believer in the
shareware concept. Our entire operation is driven by
shareware, with not one piece of commercial software to
be found.
Legal Stuff:
I do not warranty anything about this program save for
the fact that it WILL take up space on your Hard Drive.
APC Softwares, or the author Joe Hochstuhl, will in no
way assume any responsibility for non-operation or loss
of Data.
System Requirements:
1) A computer, any computer.
2) A registered copy of Marshall Dudley's Doorway. (if
you need a copy of Doorway, you probably haven't been
a sysop that long. I have the shareware version here
at APC (513) 288-2420 V.32bis...
Installation:
Piece of cake. Copy the file QC.EXE into a Pathed directory.
Any Pathed directory will do. And that's about it.
To start Quick Chat, you Several modes. The basic formats
are outlined below.
For chat mode: (filename CHAT.BAT)
@ECHO OFF
CLS
DOORWAY SYS /O:T /B:XZ /V:D /P:(path)QC.EXE -mchat (options)
And for Page Mode: (filename PAGE.BAT)
@ECHO OFF
CLS
DOORWAY SYS /O:T /B:XZ /V:D /P:(path)QC.EXE -mpage (options)
For most BBSes that allow external chat programs, you are
permitted the two batch files. One for chat and the other
for page. Some BBS software will only allow one file, and
then to distinquish between chat and page they pass a
parameter to the batch file. If this is you case try:
@echo off
cls
IF %1 == PAGE GOTO PAGE
IF %1 == CHAT GOTO CHAT
GOTO END
:PAGE
DOORWAY SYS /O:T /B:XZ /V:D /P:(path)QC.EXE -mpage (options)
GOTO END
:CHAT
DOORWAY SYS /O:T /B:XZ /V:D /P:(path)QC.EXE -mchat (options)
GOTO END
:END
NOTE: If you in a drop to DOS useing DOORWAY. keep in
mind DOORWAY is already active so to call these batch
files from a drop to DOS simply omit the beginning
doorway commands.
Support files (Operation)
As stated before Quick Chat is a very flexible program.
And it all programs that lend themselves to variable
enviroments, one must deal with the dreaded command line
switches. Below is a description of the command line
switches that are provided with Quick Chat.
-I[?] - SYNTAX: -i[drive\path\dorinfo1.def]
-i[Sysop name & BBS]
EXAMPLE: -ic:\telix\dorinfo1.def
EXAMPLE: -iJohn SmithInlow BBS
(Note: The above----^^-- is not a typo. the BBS
name must be back to back with the SysOp's Last
name. A requirement for the registration number)
This is the variable from which Quick Chat draws
it's information from. This command is only
required if you are running a registered version
of Quick Chat. It can hold two types of
information. The first type is the FULL path to
the dorinfo1.def file for your BBS. The second
type is the SysOp's Name and BBS name. For
Maximum preformance of Quick Chat, you'll want to
indicate your dorinfo1.def file in this field,
otherwise you can run with your registration
number in the second method. The program will,
however, run without this field in unregistered
format.
-k[12345 - SYNTAX: -k012345
This switch is where you will need to enter your
registration key number. If you are running a
registered version of quick chat, this field and
the Info field (above) are REQUIRED.
-m(?) - SYNTAX: -mpage
-mchat
A REQUIRED field. If you run nothing else. This
field MUST be present. Pretty much self
explanatory. the Mode switch(-m) tells quick chat
to open in either the Page or Chat format.
-l[?] - SYNTAX: -l([drive]\[path]\[filename])
This field when present tells Quick Chat to
record it's operations into a log file that you
specify. Simply type the full path and name of
the log file you wish to write to.
Command line examples:
The following command line tells Quick Chat to do the
following items. Reference dorinfo1.def in the Phantom
directory for it's variables. Start up in Page Mode.
Gives registration Key. and writes it's operations to the
file qc.log in the root directory of C.
(path)qc.exe -ic:\phantom\dorinfo1.def -mpage -k12345 -lc:\qc.log
The following command line tells Quick Chat to not use a
dorinfo1.def file, but supplies the information for
registered mode. Start up in chat mode. And supplies
registration key. Since the -l option is missing, there
will be no log written.
(path)qc.exe -iJohn SmithInlow BBS -mchat -k12345
The following command line tells Quick Chat to reference
the dorinfo1.def file for variables. Start in chat mode.
Since the -k is missing, it will start up in unregistered
mode.
(path)qc.exe -ic:\telix\dorinfo1.def -mchat
The simpliest command line of all: Start up in
unregistered mode. Use no information file. Run in
complete no frills mode. Start up in page mode.
(path)qc.exe -mpage
Finally, A drop to DOS application might go like this. I
created a batch file in my \TOOLS directory (\tools is a
pathed directory). The file name I called CHAT.BAT. And
in this file I had one line like this:
qc -ic:\phantom\dorinfo1.def -k12345 -mchat
This implementation of Quick Chat gave me the ability to
bring any user into chat while we were operating in DOS.
I simply type CHAT at the command line and up it comes.
(Keeping in mind that I am useing DOORWAY to drop to dos
in the first place so it was not needed to use the doorway
command line as in the BBS batch file examples.) This
loaded a fully operational registered version of Quick
Chat, while not useing a log.
Well those should give you the basic idea. If you have
further questions log onto my BBS, I will be happy to
help. Registered or Unregistered.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
That's about it. APC Software's is one of the leading
developers of Doors, BBS packages, and utilities designed
for use with DOORWAY. Feel free to log onto our bulletin
Board any time you like to see what other Programs are
available and written by us.
Registration for any APC Software's program can be done
by mail to:
ATT: Program registration
APC Softwares
215 South High Street
Hillsboro, Ohio 45133
APC Voice daytime number is: (513) 393-3499
APC Support BBS is: (513) 288-2420 v.32bis
Quick Chat is copyrighted work and the Author reserves
all rights to it. Registration for Quick Chat is $10.00.