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                ─OCS ╞OR (ST/R.UDEDIT AND ├═─ ╚─/╥┴═╠INK ╧WNERS


          ╫HILE ╔ WAS STATIONED AT ├LARK ┴┬, ╔ MANGED TO SCRAPE ENOUGH
     MONEY TOGETHER TO BUY A 20MEG ├═─ ╚─ AND A 2MEG ╥┴═╠INK.  ╘HIS WAS
     GREAT, BECAUSE THE BBS WAS NO SLOWPOKE RUNNING OFF OF THE 2MEG ╥┴═╠INK
     AND THE ╚─ IN PARALLEL MODE.  ╚OWEVER, ONE MAJOR POINT WAS STILL LEFT
     UNANSWERED, AND THAT WAS, HOW TO HAVE THE BBS TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF
     THE ├═─ ─╧╙'S PARTITIONS AND NATIVE MODE SUBDIRECTORIES.  ╙O AFTER
     SOME THOUGHT, ╔ DECIDED TO SET THE SYSTEM UP SO THAT THE DOWNLOAD
     SYSTEM WOULD BE ABLE TO HANDLE THE PARTITIONS AND SUBDIRECTORIES WHILE
     THE MAIN BBS WOULD NOT.  ┴T LEAST UNTIL THE NEXT MAJOR REVISION WHICH
     ╔ STARTED WORK ON.  (┴ND IS STILL SOME WAYS AWAY.)
          ┴CTUALLY, THE BBS IN A LIMITED WAY CAN ACCESS TWO DIFFERENT
     PARTITIONS.  ┴S YOU KNOW, THE BBS CAN EASILY HANDLE DRIVE 1 AND
     DRIVE 0 ON A DUAL DRIVE DEVICE.  ╔N ├═─ ─╧╙, DRIVE 1 IS PARTITION 1
     AND DRIVE 2 IS PARTITION 2 AND DRIVE 3 IS PARTITION 3 ETC.  ╚OWEVER
     DRIVE 0 IS SPECIAL, IT MEANS "THE CURRENT PARTITION."  ╘AKING
     ADVANTAGE OF THIS FACT, ╔ CREATED TWO PARTITIONS ON MY ╚─.
     ╨ARTITION 1 (DRIVE 1) WAS A FULL 16MEG NATIVE MODE PARTITION THAT HAD
     THE MAIN (ROOT) DIRECTORY SAVE SEVERAL MESSAGE BASES AND HERE ╔
     CREATED A PLETHORA OF SUBDIRECTORIES FOR USE AS UP/DOWNLOAD LIBRARIES.
     ╨ARTITION 2 (DRIVE 0 FOR THE BBS AND THE ╚─'S DEFAULT PARTITION,) WAS
     A TWO MEG PARTITION THAT EASILY HELD ALL THE BBS'S SYSTEM FILES,
     P-FILES, G-FILES, AND SEVERAL MORE MESSAGE BASES.  (╘HIS ALSO INCLUDED
     ALL MY DEVELOPMENT FILES STILL LEAVING AROUND 3000 BLOCKS FREE.)
     ╬OTE:  ╔T WAS AT THIS POINT THAT ╔ HAD DIRECTORIES THAT LOOKED LIKE
     CHAOS!  ╙O THIS IS WHAT SPAWNED THE ┴──┼ (┴LL ─EVICE ─IR ┼DITOR) SO
     THAT ╔ COULD ORGANIZE MY ╚─ DIRECTORIES.
          ┴ FEW MONTHS LATER ╔ BOUGHT MY ╥┴═╠INK.  ╔ MADE THE ╥╠ DEVICE 8
     AND COPIED THE TWO MEG PARTITION 2 ON THE ╚─ OVER TO THE ╥╠ AND USED
     IT AS THE SYSTEM DISK WHILE ╔ USED THE 2 MEG PARTITION ON THE ╚─ AS A
     BACKUP OF THE ╥┴═.  ┬ACKING UP THE ╥╠ ONCE A MONTH WORKED FINE.  ╧R
     WHEN ╔ HAD TO TAKE THE ╥╠ OFF THE COMPUTER FOR CHANGES/MODS FROM ├═─.
     ╔ WAS ALSO QUITE HAPPY THAT MY ┴──┼ WORKED QUITE WELL WITH THE ╥╠'S
     NATIVE MODE SINCE THEY ARE IDENTICAL TO THE ╚─.  (╬O COINCEDINCE ╔'M
     SURE!)
          ╥IGHT AFTER ╔ BOUGHT THE ╥╠, THE COMPUTER STORE ON BASE HAD A
     SALE ON SOME 20MEG ╚─'S THEY COULDN'T GET RID OF!  ╘HEY WERE PERFECT,
     EACH HAD A ╙├╙╔ DEVICE SELECT, ITS OWN CASE AND POWER SUPPLY AS WELL
     AS TWO ╙├╙╔ PORTS FOR $250, SO ╔ BOUGHT ONE.  (╘HEY EVEN LET ME BRING
     MY ├═─ ╚─ IN THE STORE AND "╘EST ─RIVE" THE DISPLAY MODEL.  ╘HE ├┬═
     REP. WAS QUITE IMPRESSED WITH MY ╚─!  ╚E DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THEY
     EXISTED!)  ╬OW ╔ HAD JUST OVER 40MEG OF STORAGE AND THE ABILITY OF THE
     UP/DOWNLOAD LIBRARIES TO HANDLE PARTITIONS HIGHER THAN 1 REALLY CAME
     IN HANDY!
          ╫HICH BRINGS ME TO THE POINT THAT YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR,
     THE DOCUMENTATION ON HOW TO USE THE ├═─ DEVICES WITH THE UP/DOWNLOAD
     LIBRARIES.
















                            (ST/R.UDEDIT ═AIN ═ENU


      ┴ - ┴DD A ╠IBRARY
      ┬ - ─ELETE A ╠IBRARY
      ├ - ─ELETE A ╞ILE
      ─ - ┼DIT A ╠IBRARY
      ┼ - ┼DIT A FILE
      ╞ - ╙ET ├═─ ─EFAULTS
      ╤ - ╤UIT AND ╙AVE


          ┴ ALLOWS YOU TO CREATE A NEW LIBRARY.  ┬E SURE YOU HAVE USED
     OPTION ╞ IF YOU HAVE A ├═─ DEVICE!  ╘HE LIBRARIES WILL BE CREATED
     NUMERICALLY AND YOU ARE ALLOWED A MAX OF 20 ONLY.  ┘OU WILL BE ASKED
     FOR THE NAME OF THE LIBRARY.  ╒P TO 20 CHARACTERS ARE ALLOWED.  ╔F YOU
     PRECEDE THE NAME WITH A $, THE LIBRARY WILL BE IN ╞ULL ─ISK ═ODE.
     ╘HIS MEANS IT WILL NOT SAVE ITS DIRECTORY FILE, BUT WILL ALLOW THE
     USER FULL ACCESS TO THE DEVICE;DRIVE SELECTED.  ╬EXT, YOU WILL BE
     ASKED FOR THE ACCESS LEVEL OF THE LIBRARY.  ╥EMEMBER THE ACCESS LEVEL
     YOU GAVE THE DOWNLOAD SECTION ITSELF IN THE MAIN BBS EDITOR.  ╘HE
     LIBRARY'S ACCESS LEVEL MUST BE EQUAL TO OR HIGHER THAN THAT VALUE.
     ╬EXT, YOU WILL BE PROMPTED FOR THE DEVICE NUMBER THE LIBRARY WILL
     RESIDE ON.  ┴ND THEN COMES THE DRIVE THE LIBRARY WILL RESIDE ON.  ╘HIS
     CAN ONLY BE 0 OR 1.  ├═─ OWNERS:  ╔F YOU WISH TO USE THE
     PARTITION/SUBDIRECTORY ABILITY, YOU MUST ┴╠╫┴┘╙ PLACE A 0 HERE!
          ╔F THE DEVICE YOU SPECIFIED IS NOT THE SAME AS WHAT YOU SPECIFIED
     WITH OPTION ╞, YOU WILL BE RETURNED TO THE MAIN MENU.  ╧THERWISE, YOU
     WILL ASKED FOR THE PARTITION OF THE LIBRARY.  1 THRU 254 ARE VALID.
     ┬E SURE TO ONLY ENTER THE NUMBER ITSELF AND NOTHING ELSE.  ╞INALLY,
     YOU WILL BE ASKED FOR THE NAME OF THE SUBDIRECTORY.  ╘HIS CAN BE LEFT
     BLANK IF YOU ONLY WANT THE ├═─ DEVICE TO CHANGE PARTITION AND ╬╧╘
     ENTER A SUBDIRECTORY.  (╬OTE:  ╘HIS EFFECTIVELY WORKS ON MOVING THE
     ├═─ TO ┴╬┘ TYPE PARTITION!  ╘HIS INCLUDES 41/71/81 MODES.  ╚OWEVER,
     AFTER CHANGING TO A NON-NATIVE PARTITION THE ├═─'S ERROR LIGHT WILL
     FLASH, THIS IS NOT AN ERROR AND CAN BE IGNORED.)  ╫HEN USING A
     SUBDIRECTORY PATHNAME, YOU MUST ENTER IT A SPECIAL WAY, OTHERWISE THE
     ├═─ WILL SHOW AN ERROR AND NOT CHANGE PARTITION/SUBDIRECTORY.  ╘HE
     CORRECT FORMAT IS:  //64 UTILITIES   ┴ND IF YOU HAVE NESTED
     SUBDIRECTORIES USE:  //SID STEREO/MONO LIB 1   ┘OU MAY HAVE A PATHNAME
     UP TO 39 CHARACTERS IN LENGTH.
          ╧PTION ┬ WILL DELETE AN ENTIRE LIBRARY.  ┴LL LIBRARIES ALL
     NUMERICALLY HIGHER WILL MOVE TO REPLACE IT.
          ╧PTION ├ ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY WHICH LIBRARY AND THEN WHICH FILE
     NUMBER TO DELETE FROM ITS LIST.  ╘HIS ONLY WORKS IF THE LIBRARY NAME
     IS NOT PRECEDED BY A $.


















          ╧PTION ─ ALLOWS YOU TO EDIT A LIBRARY'S NAME, DEVICE, DRIVE,
     PARTITION, AND PATHNAME.  ╨RESSING RETURN WITHOUT TYPING ANYTHING WILL
     NOT CHANGE WHAT IS ALREADY THERE, ┼╪├┼╨╘ WITH THE PARTITON AND
     PATHNAME ENTRIES.  ╨RESSING RETURN WITHOUT TYPING ANYTHING WILL DELETE
     THE PARTITION/PATHNAME ENTRY.  ┘OU ═╒╙╘ RETYPE THIS IN ORDER TO KEEP
     IT THERE.  ╙ORRY, THIS WAS DONE IF YOU WISHED TO DO JUST THAT, DELETE
     THE PARTITION/PATHNAME...
          ╧PTION ┼ LETS YOU SPECIFY WHICH LIBRARY AND FILENUMBER YOU WISH
     TO EDIT.  ╘HEN YOU WILL BE ALLOWED TO CHANGE THE FILENAME, UPLOADER,
     FILETYPE, AND NUMBER OF BLOCKS.  ╨RESSING RETURN WILL NOT CHANGE THE
     ENTRY.
          ╧PTION ╞ IS FOR ├═─ OWNERS ONLY.  ╔F YOU DO NOT HAVE A ├═─ ╚─ OR
     ╥┴═╠INK, THEN DO NOT USE THIS OPTION.  ╚ERE YOU MUST ENTER THE ├═─
     DEVICE NUMBER, DEFAULT PARTITION, AND DEFAULT PATHNAME.  ╘HESE
     DEFAULTS ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE POWERUP DEFAULTS OF THE ├═─.  ╘HEY
     ARE THE DEFAULTS FOR THE MAIN BBS ITSELF.  ╘HIS INFORMATION IS NEEDED
     BECAUSE THE DOWNLOAD SECTION ISSUES THE CP AND CD COMMANDS TO ├═─ AND
     IF THE MAIN BBS TRIED TO LOAD UP A MESSAGE BASE FILE OR PROGRAM FILE
     AND THE ├═─ WAS NOT IN THE RIGHT CONFIGURATION, THE BBS WILL CRASH.
     ┴CTUALLY, THE DOWNLOAD SECTION ITSELF WOULD CRASH, IF IT COULDN'T FIND
     THE MAIN BBS PROGRAM TO RELOAD!  ╞ROM MY DESCRIPTION OF HOW ╔ HAD MY
     BBS SETUP, ╔ HAD THE MAIN BBS SYSTEM PARTITION AS PARTITION 2, SO FOR
     THE DEFAULT PARTITION, ╔ ENTERED 2.  ╙INCE ╔ USED THE WHOLE PARTITION
     FOR THE BBS, ╔ LEFT THE PATHNAME BLANK.  ╬OTE:  ╒SING THE DEFAULT
     PATHNAME, THE BBS COULD ACTUALLY BE RUN FROM A SUBDIRECTORY IN A FULL
     16MEG NATIVE MODE PARTITION.  ╘HE DOWNLOAD SECTION WOULD RETURN THE
     ├═─ TO THAT PATHNAME BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO RELOAD THE MAIN BBS PROGRAM.
      ┬E SURE TO ENTER THE PATHNAME EXACTLY AS SHOWN FOR THE PATHNAMES OF
     THE INDIVIDUAL LIBRARIES.  ╠IKE:  //STR BBS V3.9   ╬OTE:  ┘OU CAN'T
     USE "ST/R" BECAUSE THIS WOULD CAUSE THE ├═─ TO LOOK FOR TWO
     SUBDIRECTORIES "ST" AND "R BBS V3.9"!!
          ┴╙ MENTIONED BEFORE, ╔ HAVE BOTH THE ├═─ ╚─ AND ╥┴═╠INK.  ╙INCE ╔
     USE THE ╥┴═ AS A FULL STORAGE DEVICE (NO SUBDIRECTORIES,) ╔ HAD NO
     PROBLEMS WITH NOT USING THE SUBDIRECTORIES ON THE ╥┴═.  ┬ECAUSE OF
     THIS, THE UDEDIT AND THE DOWNLOAD SECTION WILL ONLY ACCEPT ╧╬┼ ├═─
     DEVICE.  ╘HOSE WITH ╥┴═╠INK ONLY OR ╚─ ONLY HAVE NO PROBLEMS.  ╞OR
     THOSE THAT HAVE BOTH, ╔ STRONGLY SUGGEST USING THE ╚─ SINCE IT HAS A
     MUCH WIDER AND MORE PERMANENT MEANS OF STORAGE.
          ╧NE ╞INAL ╬OTE:  ╞OR THOSE OF YOU WHO TO USE THE ├═─ SPECIFICALLY
     IN A PROGRAM FILE OF YOUR OWN DESIGN, YOU CAN USE THE INFORMATION
     STORED IN THE (UDFILES1) FILE TO RETURN THE ├═─ TO ITS NORMAL
     CONFIGURATION BEFORE RETURNING TO THE MAIN BBS.  ╘HE INFORMATION TAKES
     THE FOLLOWING FORMAT:  1: ╬UMBER OF ╠IBRARIES, 2: ╚─ DEVICE #, 3:
     ╨ARTITION, 4: ╨ATHNAME.  ╘HE FOLLOWING INPUT CAN GET THE INFO:

     OPEN1,8,5,"0:(UDFILES1)":INPUT#1,X,HD,PA$,PT$:CLOSE1

     WHERE X MEANS DON'T CARE, HD IS THE DEVICE #, PA$ IS THE PARTITON, AND
     PT$ IS THE PATHNAME.  ┘OU CAN USE THE INFO LIKE THIS:

     OPEN4,HD,15:PRINT#4,"CP"+PA$:PRINT#4,"CD"+PT$:CLOSE4















          ╔F ANYONE HAS ANY QUESTIONS, PROBLEMS, COMMENTS ETC.  ╔ CAN BE
     REACHED ON ╟┼NIE AS ─.═C╠AUGHLI8, OR AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS.

                             ─OUGLAS ╞. ═C╠AUGHLIN
                             ╨╙├ ┬OX 4861
                             ╫HEELER ┴╞┬, ╚I 96854