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- The best news generator available in the world for SysOps!
- Many styles of screen output.
- Now supporting date and environment buffer.
- With simulataneous printer output.
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- Hello my friend SysOp,
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- This program generates an ANSI and ASCII news screen for your BBS.
- It runs under Remote Access, EzyCom, PCBoard, WildCat and compatibles.
- If your BBS program isn't compatible with Super News, you're able to
- send an example of your news file with a little explain about the file
- structure to one of author's mailing addresses.
- S-NEWS generates the following files:
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- NEWS.ANS -=> News screen in ANSI Codes
- NEWS.ASC -=> News screen in ASCII Codes
- NEWS.BBS -=> WildCat! format
- NEWS.PCB -=> PCBoard format
- NEWS.AVT -=> Probably on next versions (5.00)
- NEWS.RIP -=> Probably on next versions (5.00)
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- The parameters are:
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- Syntax: S-NEWS [/P|/O|/A] </1|/2|/3|/4|/5> [/PCB|/WC]
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- /P - Printer output.
- /O - Rename NEWS.A?? to ONCEONLY.A?? [Read Common Questions]
- /A - Rename NEWS.A?? to ALTNEWS.A?? [Read Common Questions]
- /1 - Continuous form. Like printer paper.
- /2 - Standart form.
- /3 - Full Screen form. One news per page.
- /4 - Windowed screen mode.
- /5 - Shadowed screen mode. {+}
- /PCB - Force PCBoard output.
- /WC - Force WildCat! output.
- On next versions much more modes will be included.
- Sugestions and examples are welcome.
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- Parameters with <> are necessary, and you should pick up ONLY one.
- Parameter with [] is optional.
- At first you must specify the environment buffer on the MS-DOS (or
- whatever), like this (You should include it into your AUTOEXEC.BAT):
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- Syntax.: SET S-NEWS={drive}{path}
- Example: SET S-NEWS=C:\RA\S-NEWS
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- The configuration, text and key files, MUST be in the same directory
- of S-NEWS.EXE.
- The text that will be included in the generated files is on NEWS.TXT
- and the format is:
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- Header|Date
- Message Line 1
- .
- .
- .
- Message Line xxx
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- Observation:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- After each news, you have to put /***/, but when writing the
- the last news, it's not necessary.
- In the Message Line buffer, the words are centered on the
- screen, then it's not necessary to add spaces in the line.
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- Header|Date
- Message Line 1
- .
- .
- .
- Message Line xxx
- /***/
- Header|Date
- Message Line 1
- .
- .
- .
- Message Line xxx
- /***/
- Header|Date
- Message Line 1
- .
- .
- .
- Message Line xxx
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- Observation:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- As you can see, on the last news there's no /***/, because
- it means that it's the last news of the NEWS.TXT file and
- S-NEWS can recognize the EOF.
- Take a look at the examples given.
- Date option is optional!
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- WARNING:
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- The maximum number of characters that you should put in each
- line is 70, else you will be able to receive some ERROR messages!
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- ║▒▒▒ Setting Up Configuration File ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒║
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- S-CONFIG.EXE has all support necessary.
- If your last S-NEWS version was less than 4.06 you *MUST* run:
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- S-CONFIG /CREATE
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- ║▒▒▒ Displaying the date ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒║
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- In header buffer you can put the date.
- Like this:
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- Birthday!|March 12th
- xxxxxxxxx
- xxxxxxxxx
- xxxxxxxxx
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- Date option is not necessary!
- Depending on the style of the news the date will be displayed in
- different places, like mode 2:
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- ╒═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╕
- │ Birthday! │
- ╘═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╡ March 12th ╞══════╛
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- If you don't want to put the date, it will appear like this:
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- │ Birthday! │
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- If you have some troubles you can find help in all of Super News
- support sites or even with the author in one of his mailing addresses.
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- ║▒▒▒ Changing colors ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒║
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- Hello!|Jul 15th
- This is an ^^example^G of S-NEWS!
- Why don't you register it?
- /***/
- Test 2
- Testing S-NEWS!
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- On line 2, the word "example" will be shown in flashing white because
- the character (^^). And the character (^G) will turn the rest as gray.
- For help concerning the colors, you should run S-TABLE.EXE
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- In the header, you can't change colors yet!
- On 5.0 version IT WILL BE DONE!
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- ║▒▒▒ Common Questions ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒║
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- When I have a new News (!), where should I place them?
- A: You have to put them on TOP of NEWS.TXT
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- Where should I use ALTNEWS.A?? ?
- A: This file is displayed only if the NEWS.A?? file was not
- displayed to the user because the user requested to skip it
- during an IEMSI session. If you want all users to see your
- system news file regardless, simply use option /A
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- Where should I use ONCEONLY.A?? ?
- A: This file is displayed just after the NEWS.A?? file. It is
- displayed once only when the file has been altered since the
- user last viewed it.
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- ║▒▒▒ Programs mentioned in this document ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒║
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- All brand and product names are Copyrighted (C) material, Trademarks (tm)
- or Registered (R) Trademarks of their respective holders:
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- ARJ Robert K. Jung
- RemoteAccess Andrew Milner and Wantree Development.
- Ezycom Peter Davies
- MS-DOS Microsoft Corporation
- PCBoard Unknown
- WildCat Unknown
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- ║▒▒▒ Sending Questions and Opinions ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒║
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- Opinions and questions are welcome in:
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- FidoNet.........: 4:801/51
- RBT.............: 12:1213/4
- Prime Net.......: 98:1100/1
- Tekno Net.......: 58:132/1
- InterNet........: daniel.lafraia@f51.n801.z4.fidonet.org
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- WARNING: The new phone number for IRON BBS is +55-132-225775
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- Thanks for using S-NEWS,
- Daniel Lafraia
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- -=> Typed by Daniel Lafraia
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