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Tiny's Wall of Babble CGI version 1.2
Written by: Shawn 'Tiny' Highfield Feb 19 1999
What is it?
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This is a version of my Wall of Babble BBS door ported to work
with Web servers. It allows people visiting your web site to leave
One Liners about anything they desire. It's a great way to liven up
your static web page and keep people coming back again and again!
Features
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- Pipe colour code support. Allows visitors to change the colour
of their babble by using easy pipe codes. |12This is Red ,
|14This is Yellow |09Blue etc.
- LORD colour code support. Allows visitors to change the colour
of their babble by using the codes in the LORD door game. '$
is yellow, etc.
- OS/2 32bit version, Windows 32bit version, msdos 16bit version.
The MSDOS version has been tested with Windows 3.x httpd's.
- Fast operation. Using binary files to store user data.
- Freeware!
- Stable! Version 1.0 has been out for over a year and there has
been NO problems with it.
Installing
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Easy! Follow the following steps and you'll have your wall running
in under 5 minutes. :)
1) Unzip the archive into a temporary directory.
2) Edit the wall.cfg file. You need to change at least 2 lines.
Line 1> The full path to your wall.dat file. I share my data file with
the BBS version of my wall. This allows both BBS and web users
to babble to each other!
Line 2> The URL of your web page. ie: http://www.blah.com or
http://www.blah.com/~tiny Do not use a trailing backslash.
The rest of the file is not nessasary to change, but you can set your
colour's and look of the page there.
3) Rename the version of the Wall of babble you wish to use to
wallcgi.exe.
wallcgid.exe - DOS / Win3.x version
wallcgiw.exe - Win95 / Win/NT version
wallcgi2.exe - OS/2 version.
4) Copy (or move) wall.cfg, and wallcgi.exe to your web
servers CGI-BIN directory. (See your web servers documention
for information on that).
5) Copy the addto.htm file to the directory your server uses for HTML pages.
(You may change this file, but the fields *MUST* be the same, and it
*MUST* be named addto.htm The .htm extension is to insure compatibility
with many different web servers and Operating systems.
6) Install a link into your HTML page.
ie: View our Wall by clicking
<A HREF="http://tinys.oix.com/cgi-bin/wallcgi.exe">here</A>!<BR>
History
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Oct 23 1997 Version 1
- First version.
Nov 06 1998 Version 1.1
- Added LORD colour codes. (Now no matter what your BBS users
do your WEB visitors can view it!)
- Win32 version.
- Win16 (msdos) version.
- The datafile routines are more stable.
Feb 19 1999 Version 1.2
- Minor changes from 1.1
Extras:
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This program is written in Pascal. Using Virtual Pascal v2.0/Beta4
from fprint. http://www.fprint.co.uk/vpascal/
VP can compile for both OS/2 and Win32.
Contacting me:
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Tiny's BBS - (905)723-1575 or Telnet: tinys.oix.com
World Wide Wait - http://move.to/tinys FTP : tinys.oix.com
FidoNet: 1:229/452.0 RIME : ->TINYSBBS(#3033)
Email: tiny@tinys.oix.com - Text Only
t1ny@home.com - HTML, TEXT, file attach email accepted.
t1ny@yahoo.com - Backup account.
Write me, if you want anything added, changed or have found a bug.