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NEWSIE 1.00 - October 1996
RIP Newspaper Builder by John Parlin
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F R E E W A R E
This software is provided as-is, free of charge and includes Turbo Pascal
6.0 source code. The source code was written by John Parlin and has been
contributed to the public domain in the interest of furthering the
program's development but also to encourage others to create software.
If you add to this program, please redistribute the source code as
freeware to others so that they may use the enhancements or add even more
to the program.
=========================================================================
NEWSIE is a utility that converts an ASCII text file into a RipScript
graphic resembling a newspaper. The newspaper banner, headlines and
stories are configurable by you.
To get started, create or edit a NEWSIE.TXT file. NEWSIE looks for this
file whenever it is run. This is the text of the news to be converted
into the RIP graphic.
To make a headline (story title), proceed the line with ASCII character
number 11 which can be inserted in some text editors by entering CONTROL-P
then CONTROL-K. Other editors might accept ALT-011.
Example of a Headline (story title)
New Utility Installed
The story text must follow the title directly. Proper font pitch and
spacking will be produced in the RIP graphic.
Our example continues:
New Utility Installed
I installed NEWSIE today to
create RIP newspaper articles.
So, those of you have are
calling with a RipScript
terminal, the bulletins are now
a lot fancier!
Free Membership
I will give a free 1-month
membership to the winner of this
month's Shut The Box game.
There's still plenty of time and
with the make-up day feature,
you can even make up for lost
time. So go at, and have fun,
and let's be careful out there!
Notice that the two stories appear one right after the other, separated by
a headline. The story text lines may be no longer than 33 characters.
Right now, the program does not have an editor and the parser will just
grab the first 33 characters and disregard the rest. So set your editor's
right margin at 33 when you're creating your stories.
NEWSIE looks for the configuration file NEWSIE.CFG whenever it is run.
This file contains a list of parameters that NEWSIE operates under.
Here's an example:
NEWSIE.CFG
<top of file>
BANNER=Riverworks BBS
EDITOR=Ed Arenz
MOUSECLICK=YES
MOUSETEXT=^M
<end of file>
There should be no blank lines and no spaces between the '=' character.
The settings are:
BANNER This is what goes on the banner of the RIP newspaper. Keep it
limited to 18 characters.
EDITOR This is usually the Sysop name and it appears after "Editor in
Chief" on the newspaper.
MOUSECLICK If this is set to YES, then the entire newspaper is made into
a RIP mouse region and is therefore 'click-able'.
MOUSETEXT Everything after the '=' character will be sent to the BBS
whenever the newspaper is mouse clicked. This is only
applicable if MOUSECLICK=YES.
NEWSIE will enable a text window just below the newspaper at the bottom of
the screen. If your BBS sends any text after the newspaper, it will
appear here. The text window is 80 characters wide by 5 characters high
and uses a 80x43 font. This means that NEWSIE can be implemented as a
bulletin menu.
To run NEWSIE after NEWSIE.CFG and NEWSIE.TXT have been created or edited,
just run NEWSIE.EXE from the DOS command line. The output file NEWSIE.RIP
will be created. To view this file, use a RipScript editor or call from
your BBS and view it that way.