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S T O R M / P A G E v. 1.00
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PCBoard SysOp Page Command Replacement
Zip File Manefest:
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STRMPAGE.DOX This Info File
DISCLAIM.ER! K&K SoftWare Disclaimer
REGISTER.FRM How To Register
NOT .PCB "SysOp Not Available Screen"
PAGE .PCB Screen to show user while paging
is in progress.
STRMPAGE.PPE Storm/Page Executable
Introduction to Storm/Page v. 1.00
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One afternoon I was sorting through a collection of well over
300 PPE's and other add-on's I decided I was tired of looking at
other people's programs. As I thought I realized that all these
other programs came "close" to what I wanted them to do, none of
them were actually 100% compatible with my desires. Then I really
began to kick myself in the backside! I have had the PCBoard
software for over 2 years and I had never even opened the book
about the PPL. So I added the new PPE files to my collection
in my BBS file areas that numbers in the thousands and sat down
in front of "The Net" (for the 17th time this month on HBO) and
started on page one of the PPL manual. Five minutes later my wife
calls me from work and tells me that we're going on a 4 hour drive
to Seattle to see her family (who will be here in 3 weeks, but she
can't wait that long?!?!?!?!). To make a long story short by the
end of the weekend I had finished the whole book, cover to cover
and still had no idea what the heck I had read. So I reread the
book only this time it started to make sence. 3 days later, TA-DA,
I have written my first PPE.
About Storm/Page v. 1.00
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Storm/Page PCBoard SysOp Page Command Replacement PPE is my first
attempt at writing a PPE, or any other program for that matter.
Since my daughters middle names are Storm and Page I came up with
the ingenious idea to name it the "Storm Page". This eventually
evolved into "Storm/Page PCBoard SysOp Page Command Replacement" or
"Storm/Page" for short. This is the first release of the PPE and
as such is a little bit rudimentary, HOWEVER, there WILL be many
upgrades and additions to the PPE as I get more familiar with PPL
and programing in general. As it sits now the SysOp can configure
the screen that the user gets when they invoke the SysOp Page
command and when the SysOp is unavailable or does not care to answer
the page. I am also attempting to make it possible for the SysOp
to configure the starting and ending times of the page window in
this release.
Options and Features of Future Releases
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■ Configurable start & end times for page window (if I can't
accomplish it in this release).
■ More configurable screens.
■ Maybe some animation.
■ Chat modes: Vertical Split Screen, Horizontal Split Screen,
Graphical, Non-Graphical, Floating
■ Page Reason
■ Page Log
Installation
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1. Put StrmPage.Zip in its own directory
2. UnZip StrmPage.Zip
3. Configure PAGE.PCB and NOT.PCB to look and read the way you wish.
These two screens can be Ansi, PCB or Ascii formatted.
4. Edit the STORM.CFG file to fit your bbs. (The info in this file
may or may not be used in this release).
5. Place the PPE into whatever cmd.lst, display file or wherever else
you may find a use for it.
6. Have a user test it to make sure it works with your system.
T H A T ' S I T ! ! !
Help & Tech Support
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K&K Software
409 Benham St. #H
Richland, WA 99352
c/o Mike Bailey a.k.a. Phantom CyberSpace
(509)943-3431 <data>
Logon Name: K&K
Logon PW : PPE
http://www.owt.com/users/mbailey/K&K.htm