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Telegard Node Activity Toggle v1.00 Documentation
Copyright (c) 1996 Dark Zone Software.
All rights reserved.
Used to toggle the "Active" status on nodes in
Telegard's NODES.DAT file.
Configuration and Reference Manual
Written by David Stumpf
Dark Zone Software
15115 Mesa Dr. #232
Humble, Texas 77396-2380
USA
Internet Email : krawlur@brewich.com
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BORING (BUT NECESSARY) LEGAL STUFF
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Warranty
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This package is provided as-is, without warranty of any kind,
either expressed or implied, and is only guaranteed to occupy
disk space. In no event will the author be liable to you or
anyone else for any damages, including (but not limited to) any
lost profits, lost savings or other incidental or consequential
damages arising out of the use of, or inability to use, this
package.
In short: You're on your own. If it works for you, great; if
not, or if it breaks something, c'est la vie. As the saying
goes, "Use it at your own risk, but if it breaks, *YOU* have
the pieces."
Copyright Notice
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This package and all files contained herein are Copyright (c) 1996
by Dark Zone Software. No modifications may be made to any
part of this program and/or package without express written
permission from Dark Zone Software. This package may be
distributed in any medium as long as the following conditions
are met; a) The package must be unmodified b) No fees of
any kind may be charged for this package or directly for
access to this package. This software may be distrubited
by CD-ROM media and/or "pay-only" system.
Background
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I have seen several people in the TG_SUPPORT echo that have gone from
single node to multi-node and ended up turning all the nodes active status
to off then exiting Telegard and not being able to get back in because all
the nodes are considered inactive. Well, instead of just out right deleting
the nodes.dat file it seemed to me it would be easyer to just toggle the
node back on. But nobody has taken the time to throw together an editor
for such data files. So, I put this little number together.
What it does
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TGNAT simply toggles the "Active" status flag on the node that you
tell it to on the command line. This flag is represented by either a
00 or 01 in hex in the data file so it simply checks the node that you
tell it and changes it to 00 if it's currently 01 or the other way around.
Requirements
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100% IBM Compatible Computer
MS-DOS v4.00 or Compatible
Telegard BBS Software v3.01 or 3.02
Installation
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Just unzip this package into your Telegard /data/ directory and it's
ready to go!
Notes
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To operate TGNAT, just type "TGNAT #" where # is the node number that
you wish to toggle. That's it!
TGNAT does NOT make a backup of your nodes.dat file, and just to be
safe I would suggest doing so myself. I have used it here for testing and
haven't found any problems, but I don't run a multi-node bbs. I just
run a test version of TG that I toggled to multi-node for testing.