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Special News for :
, you are invited to review this program written just
for you and your BBS callers! Its called DISPLAY! DISPLAY.EXE
will allow you to view a personalized news letter that pauses every
24 lines, and pauses at the end! You, as sysop, must create the
news letter, and DISPLAY.EXE will display it for you. As a sysop,
you must decide whether the caller will have the choice to view it.
Use the command line switch /A:NO and the news letter is forced
on the caller. I call the /A: the ASK/NOASK Switch.
Use the command line switch /A:YES and the caller is asked if
he/she wants to view it. With the /A:YES option, you may designate
a custom question file on the command line. The default statement:
"Display the News Letter? (Y/n)" is replaced with the text from the
question file. I use this option to give my callers an idea of what
the subject is. After all, everyone doesn't need to know whats
happening in the online games, and most of the kids don't want to
read the stock market news!
If you've been using DISPLAY.EXE v1.8 or earlier, check out the
New Syntax! Filenames on the command line should NOT have any
extentions. DISPLAY.EXE will add them for you.
For example:
DISPLAY /B:MH1 /F:NEWS /A:YES /Q:NEWS_Q /P:YES /D:C:\BBS\DATA
│ │ │ │ │ │ └ Directory where the
│ │ │ │ │ │ BBS file is located.
│ │ │ │ │ │ (Optional).
│ │ │ │ │ │ (Default: Cur Dir).
│ │ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ │ │ └── Pause/Don't Pause switch.
│ │ │ │ │ (Optional. Default: YES).
│ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ │ └── Question file. (Optional).
│ │ │ │ (NO EXTENTION!).
│ │ │ │
│ │ │ └── Ask/Don't Ask switch. (Optional).
│ │ │ (Default: YES).
│ │ │
│ │ └── News letter file (Required. NO EXTENTION!).
│ │
│ └── BBS Type switch (Required).
│
└── Program name.
In the above example, DISPLAY.EXE expects to find 4 files:
NEWS.ASC NEWS.ANS & NEWS_Q.ASC NEWS_Q.ANS.
Be sure your news and question files have the appropriate extentions.
Thats all there is to it! Good luck, and Happy BBS'ing!
By the way, registration will remove the advertisement box you'll
see when the program exits.
Carl Sagerquist - Sagerquist Micro Engineering