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Edit Security Levels╪å You will be presented a list of the security levels that you have defined in MakeWild, or for PcBoard SysOps in PCBSETUP. Press ENTER on the security level to configure, you will presented with a screen where you can configure the certain options that pertain to security levels. Access To Areas: If you press F2 on this field you will be presented with a list of the CD-ROM disks that you have configured in MakeRom. Press ENTER on the CD-ROM disk that you want to change the access to. To toggle access to individual areas press the spacebar. If you want to give the security level access to all of the areas on this CD-ROM disk simply press ALT-S to select all of the areas. If you want to clear the all of the areas press ALT-C. Press F10 when you are finished. Max Ratio: Controls the ratio of downloads to uploads that must be met. For example, if a ratio is set to 10, a user could download 10 files without uploading any. Starting with the 11th download the user would be advised that the download/upload ratio has been exceeded. Max Daily Downloads: Limits the amount of files that a user can download during one day. Max Daily DL K-Bytes: Limits the total kilobytes (1024 bytes) that a user can download during one day. DL Warning Action: Determines how RomDoor will react when a user goes over their download ratio. The options are "Ignore", "Warn", and "Disable". The last two will send a message explaining that they are over their ratio, and disable will not allow them to mark or download the file. Ext Protocols Access: If set to "NO" then the user's will not have access to the external protocols. Max Requested Files: Sets the maximum amount of files that a user can request at any give time. For more information on the request feature please read the section "Configuring and maintaining the request feature." Max Requested K-Bytes: Sets the maximum amount of K-Bytes a user can request at any give time. *NOTE* If you have Link Sec Levels in "RomDoor's Main Settings" set to "YES" then ALT-U will correlate to your BBS settings for that particular security level. And if you ever change your BBS's security levels than you must press ALT-U to update RomDoor's security level file. Modify CDs' Infovels╪ You will be presented with a menu listing the CD-ROM disks that you have configured. If you haven't configured any CD-ROMs then the names will be blank. Press ENTER on the CD-ROM that you want to configure. The first time you press ENTER on a CD-ROM number you will be presented with a screen that tells you that it created a directory called ROMxx, which is located directly off your RomDoor directory. Press ENTER on "Edit CD-ROM info". You will presented with a screen which allows you to configure the: Name of disk: Enter the name of the CD-ROM disk that you are adding. Volume label: If the CD-ROM disk has a volume label then you will want to enter it here. To find out the volume name of the CD-ROM disk you are adding and if it has a volume label - go to DOS and type VOL ?: ─┘. ? being the drive letter where the CD-ROM disk is located. Drive letter: Simply the drive letter that you will have the disk in. If you have multiple CD-ROM disk drives and will be switching the disks around you can leave this field blank. When RomDoor loads up it will check for the disks in the disk drives. RomDoor will have to have a way for checking so you have to have a volume label and/or a file to check for so RomDoor can identify the disks in the drives. File to look for: If the CD-ROM disk that you are adding doesn't have a volume label then you will want to use this field so RomDoor can tell if the CD-ROM disk is "Online". You will want to enter a file name that is UNIQUE to that CD-ROM disk. It can be ANY file that is on the CD-ROM. You will need to include the full path to the file so for example if you where going to use FILENAME.EXT which is located in the root directory of the drive you would enter: \FILENAME.EXT Instead of just FILENAME.EXT. Modify Current Areas╪╠ Select the area to edit with your cursor and press ENTER. This window has three different fields: Area Name: This is the name of the area. Groups: The groups that the file area belongs to. If you are not planning on using the grouping feature then just disregard this option. If you want to configure groups then please read the section "Setting up groups". Area Paths [1..6]: The next six fields pertain to the paths for the areas. Since the CD-ROM's drive letter has already been designated, you do not need to include the drive letter when you type in the path. For example \GIF\NATURE instead of I:\GIF\NATURE. RomDoor allows up to six paths for one file area, if you need more than you may separate the paths using semi-colons ';'. For example I:\GIFS\NATURE;I:\GIFS\GRAPHICS;I:\GIFS\PICTURES This can be useful if files for a particular file area aren't in one location on disk. Hopefully your CD-ROM disk came with a text file that lists the area names and paths, you will use that to enter the correct information in the file areas. Go through the file areas entering the name, paths, and groups joined for every file area. Remove File Areareas╪÷ When you select this you will be prompted whether to remove the files from that file area, if you press "Y" then MakeRom will delete all the files that were in that area. This is useful if you make a mistake when you are importing file areas. Import Into Areareas╪ Read in a text file directory listing, and import it into the file area that you are on. IMPORTANT Make sure that the text file has nothing but files on the lines, that means NO blank spaces, and NO two line descriptions (For example WildCat!'s two line listings). (Yet, if there are "|" characters representing the start of the description on each extra line, RomDoor will not mess up.) After importing a area make sure that the file area has the correct information by either logging into RomDoor or loading up RomEdit. Set Max File Areasas╪¡ Select the max amount of file areas that you are going to have. This will not destroy the current file areas unless you select a number lower than you highest file area. Edit Other Infoeasas╪F Use this to set the other information vital to RomDoor's correct execution. The available options are: Network Type: The network that you are using, choices are NONET : You don't have any network or multi-tasking software installed. SHARE : If you will be running your system with DOS's SHARE command. Use this if you have any networking software other than NOVELL. NOVELL : If you will be running your system with NOVELL. Flow Control: If you are running a high speed modem, or an error correcting modem, then choose "Hardware Flow Control, (CTS/RTS)". If you have a standard 2400 or an (ouch) 1200 baud modem, then choose "No Flow Control". Other options are available, such as "Software Flow Control, (Xon/Xoff)" as well as "Both Hardware and Software flow control", but they are rarely used. DataBase Path: Just the directory that contains ROM.DAT and ROM.IX, if left blank RomDoor will default to the current directory. Default Extension: This is the file extension that will be checked when a download is requested with no file extension and the file (without the extension) is NOT located. It allows callers to specify download files without an extension if many or all of the available files have a common extension. External Protocols: This reads in the external protocols that you have specified in MakeWild and allows you to select which ones will be offered from RomDoor. Don't put any two-way protocols i.e. BiModem or HsLink since RomDoor will not check for uploaded files. BBS ID: This is for the naming of the area listings that the user creates when they make a list. Enter the most significant letters of your boards name. I.E. Illusions enter in ILLUSION NOTE This feature is only available in the registered version of RomDoor. Copy Files To HD: If this is set then when a user starts a download of a file, RomDoor will copy to the Node Work Dir and download the file from there, after the download it will delete the file. This is extremely useful for high traffic systems. Note RomDoor will not copy the file if there is not enough disk space. Use Group Names: Set to "YES" if you want to group your file areas together I.E. Games, GIFs, Adult. This is extremely useful for the user if you have a multi-CD-Rom-Drive system, because users don't have to wade through all the file areas each time the want to look for a specific type of file. Read "Setting up Groups" in the RomDoor documentation for more information on groups. Write to WC! Logs: Set this to "YES" if you want RomDoor to "log" to WC!'s activity logs. Link with BBS: Set this to "NO" if you want to keep the security level information separate from your BBS's. I.E. you want the user to have a 1:1 download ratio in RomDoor, but a 2:1 download ratio in your BBS. Edit Group Infoeasas╪W Introduced in version 1.10, groups allow you (the SysOp) to categorize your file areas so that the user doesn't have to wade through hundreds of file areas to find something that he/she needs. To configure groups: Load up MakeRom and press ENTER on "Edit Group Information". This will pop up a screen where you can enter the group names'. Notice you may have up to 32 groups. Type in a name for your first group. For example MUSIC or GRAPHICS. Press F10 when finished. Now you need tell RomDoor which files are in which groups. To do this press ENTER on "Edit CD-ROM Information". And select the CD-ROM that you want to work with. Next press ENTER on "Edit Areas" when you come to a file that should be in one of your groups press ENTER on that area and press F2 on the "Groups" field. Then simply press the SPACE BAR on the groups that it belongs in. NOTE you may assign a file area to multiple groups. Once you have configured the names press F10 to save your changes. Make sure that "Use Group Names" is set to "YES" in the "Main RomDoor Parameters" menu. Text File Def. Keyss╪ä ENTER: Enter current CD-ROM text file record INS: Enter a new CD-ROM text file record DEL: Delete current CD-ROM text file record Text File Name Keyss╪` Enter in the filename of one of the files from the CD-ROM that you are planning on importing. Identification Names╪√ This will become the name that you will reference the text file record with. It will usually be the name of the CD-ROM that the text file is from. i.e. If you were defining the CARRS CD-ROM you would put CARRS as the identification name. Text File Definition╪h To complete this step of the RomDoor installation you need to tell DirToDat where the certain fields are located in the text file that you are planning to import. You should be presented with a screen that has the first six lines of the text file that you specified. If there is a header in the file, then you may use the up and down arrow keys to reposition the current lines. Once you are a good position in the file, use the right and left arrow keys to move the "File Name" arrow. If it is in the correct location, press INS to add a new field. If there is a size field in the text file then select "Size", press the TAB key, you will notice that the arrow marker moves to the second arrow on the "File Name" arrow. Press it again to move the first arrow on the "Size" arrow. Note that you can change the length of the "Size" arrow from 8-10 characters long. WC2Rom Helpefinition╪n Keys: ENTER: Press ENTER to mark where you want to begin moving the areas. About WC2Rom: This program has been provided free along with RomDoor archive. If you already have a CD-ROM installed in WC!'s file database then you should use this. This will allow you to move the files and file areas from WC! to RomDoor's database saving you the time of installing them. When you use this you are offered whether you want to delete the files from the source after they have been moved to RomDoor, if you choose this then understand that it will take quite a long time to do this process. The reason deleting takes so long is because WC2Rom first deletes the record from the database then it has to delete every index key for that record, that could be 4-10 keys just for one record. If you decide to use RomDoor then you will probably end up deleting the files from WC! eventually and note that WC2Rom is a bit faster than WCPro. If you decide not to delete the files from WC! after copying, then the process should be faster. How to use WC2Rom: Use the arrow keys to move to the area you want to start the move at and press ENTER. Make sure you know the number of the area that you want to end at before you press ENTER, if you don't press ESC and find it. Enter the number of the ending area, then you will be presented with a screen listing the CD-ROM disks that you have configured in MakeRom. Select the number that you want to move the files to. You will then be presented with a screen showing the areas that are currently in that CD-ROM disk. Press ENTER on the area that you want to start the move at. Make sure that you have set the Max File Areas higher than the last area that you are going to move. Now press "Y" to confirm the area numbers. Next you will be asked whether you want to delete the files from WC! after they have been moved. (NOTE that includes file areas) RomEdit Helpfinition╪¡ ENTER: Edit current record ALT-C: Change current CD ALT-S: Change sort method between area number and filename INS : Insert new record DEL : Delete record from database Edit Record Windowon╪░ Use this window to create to edit a file record. If the filename and path are correct you can press F3 to have RomEdit check the disk and get the date and size of the file. Find Window Windowon╪Ñ Use this to jump to a certain area number or file name, depending on how you have the database sorted. To change the sort method press ALT-S from the main screen.