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¦ Forger ¦ 1.08
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Enables you to select one of ten "signatures"
for Voyager to append to the foot of your post.
To be on the safe side, do not run this
application until AFTER Voyager has been
started up (otherwise it might not know where
Voyager expects the signature to be found).
Fuller details and instructions follow:
please read !!
How it works
============
Inside directory ‘!Voyager.User’ there can be a file called ‘Signature’,
and !Voyager automatically appends it to the end of your news/mail posts.
Inside the directory ‘!Forger’ there is a directory called ‘Signatures’
which can contain up to ten different “signature” files.
!Forger does not muck about with any program code inside !Voyager; it just
copies one file from ‘!Forger.Signatures.’ to ‘!Voyager.User.Signature’.
Installation and setting-up
===========================
Go into ‘!Voyager.User’ to see if you already have a ‘Signature’ file:
if you have, copy it as ‘Signature0’ (to be on the safe side!)
Copy the entire !Forger application to somewhere convenient where you can
easily access it (if you have a VIX version, see the separate VIX notes).
Double-click on the !Forger [Sign] icon to run it:
it will install on the icon bar, with the text below the icon showing
“!Forger_?” in red to indicate that no signature has been selected yet.
Click (Select or Menu) on the icon-bar icon (once) to get its menu, and
click on the ‘Open SigDir’ item.
This will open the filer window of ‘!Forger.Signatures’.
If this is the first time you have done this since installing !Forger,
there will be just two files in it: ‘0None’ and ‘1Argonet’.
‘0None’ is a blank dummy file for when you don’t want a signature at all
(and I recommend you keep this one).
‘1Argonet’ is an anonymous Argonaut signature included as an example;
If you double-click on it, it will load into !Edit (or whatever your
default text editor is) so you can see the idea -- you will probably
discard this (delete it) in favour of a signature of your own creation.
Adding/Creating signature files
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It is intended and recommended that the filename of each signature should
start with a digit from 0 to 9 and be followed by up to nine letters to
form a name which you will subsequently recognise.
To start with, you will want your original signature to be available
(the one already in ‘!Voyager.User’ now called ‘Signature0’): copy this
into ‘!Forger.Signatures’ as ‘1Standard’ (or a similar name).
Signature files are created in !Edit (or whatever you use/prefer instead);
please note that:
For Usenet (newsgroup postings), good “netiquette” recommends that the
signature should be no longer than four lines;
So that the sign-off “looks right”, don’t use any top-bit-set characters
(only the ordinary keyboard characters with ASCII codes less than 127).
Running
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If the !Forger [Sign] icon is not already on the icon bar, double-click on
its icon in the directory in which it lives (or single-click on its icon
on !Voyager’s control panel if you have the VIX version).
If/when the !Forger [Sign] icon is on the icon bar, click once, with
Select or Menu, to open up its menu. Then click on the item you want.
The text beneath the icon-bar icon will change to the sig. file-name.
Please note that:
You can change your signature at any time, but the most appropriate time
is just before you “post” your item (clicking on the “pillar-box” icon
in the mail/news composition window), because the signature file that
will get appended is the one which is current when you click on [Post].
If you have just edited the contents of a signature file, you must
re-select it from !Forger’s menu (otherwise ‘!Voyager.User.Signature’
will still be the old version).
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John Alldred ZFC:B <john@protovale.co.uk> 20 Nov 1997
http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/protovale/john.html