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- Brainex Door System
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- General Help
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- MOVING AROUND
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- Use your mouse or arrow keys to move to the desired selection.
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- If you have selected DONE, hit ENTER to exit and save setup data.
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- Hit ESC for a quick exit from The Door Manager - no data saved!
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- MAIN MENU
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- Configure Your BBS Node Settings
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- Total Nodes:
- Enter the total number of nodes for BBS. Single node
- systems enter 1. You can use PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN keys
- to view settings for other nodes.
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- System Serial Number:
- Enter your Brainex Door Manager Registration number. Brainex doors
- will work in DEMO mode if you have not registered the door manager.
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- BBS Name:
- Enter the name of your BBS as you would like it to appear to callers.
- Upper/Lower case sensitive.
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- BBS Type:
- Use the spacebar or mouse buttons to toggle supported BBS types.
- If your BBS is not listed, but uses DOOR.SYS as its door data file,
- select GENERIC.
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- Sysop:
- Enter the sysop's name.
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- BBS Version:
- Enter the version number of your BBS.
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- Data File:
- Enter the name of your BBS door data file if different from the one
- automatically selected.
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- Path to Data:
- The is the complete DRIVE\DIRECTORY\FILENAME for the door data file
- for the node listed.
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- Comport:
- Toggle the comport for this node using mouse buttons or spacebar.
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- Baud:
- Toggle the baud rate for this node using mouse buttons or spacebar.
- If you do not use a locked com port, select AUTO.
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- Locked Port:
- Toggle the locked or unlocked baud for this node using mouse buttons or
- spacebar. If you selected AUTO baud, then this setting should be NO LOCK.
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- Base Address:
- If you wish to use a non-standard com port, type the com port base
- address for this node.
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- IRQ:
- Toggle the IRQ for this node using mouse buttons or spacebar.
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- Node Number:
- Use spacebar or mouse buttons to toggle the node number. You may then
- view or edit the information for the node.
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- Install or Modify a Brainex Door
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- Use the arrow keys or mouse to the desired door. Hit enter, then
- answer the setup questions for the door. Move to the DONE box when
- you are finished.
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- Add or Edit External File Transfer Protocols
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- Certain Brainex doors require the program DSZ.EXE, DSZ.COM, GSZ.EXE,
- HSLINK.EXE, or other external file transfer programs. Enter the
- DRIVE\DIRECTORY where the batch files for your external file
- transfer program are located. Usually this is your BRAINEX default
- directory. Enter a letter for each protocol. This letter will
- be part of the options menu shown to the callers. Enter the protocol
- name, and the batch file name. When finished, move to the DONE box,
- then hit enter.
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- Add or Edit CDROM information
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- For use with ROMBRAIN and REQUEST programs.
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- If you want to use more than one CDROM disk, you will need to enter
- information for each disk. Place the first disk into your CDROM
- drive.
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- CDROM Drive:
- Enter the drive letter. Enter 0 only if this CDROM disk
- will not be available to callers. The disk volume label will appear
- in the Volume/Label box.
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- Disk Title:
- Enter the name of the CDROM, this is what callers will see on the
- Rombrain Main Menu.
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- Path to RomBrain Filebase:
- Enter the DRIVE\DIRECTORY for the filebase base for this disk. This is
- the location of the CDTYPE files. You can download them from the Brainex
- BBS, or create them with the COMPILE program. Before you use COMPILE,
- enter the information for each CDROM disk.
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- Disk Volume/Label:
- Enter a volume label only if the disk is OFFLINE.
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- Access Level to View Directory:
- Enter the user level that may view the directory of the disk.
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- Access Level to Download Files:
- Enter the user level that may download files from this disk.
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- CD Type Letter:
- Use mouse buttons or plus/minus (+ -) keys to toggle CDROM types.
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- To add another CD, use mouse or arrow keys to move to the DISK NUMBER
- box, then use mouse buttons or plus/minus (+ -) keys to select a disk.
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- If any information is left blank, the CD information will NOT be saved.
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- You may delete a CDROM disk record entry by selecting DELETE.
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- Move to the DONE box, then hit ENTER when you are finished.
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- Brainset Startup Command line options:
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- SOUND OFF
- SOUND ON
- TITLE OFF
- TITLE ON
- COLOR OFF (Monochrome Mode)
- COLOR ON
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- Example:
- BRAINEX COLOR OFF SOUND OFF
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- Files created and/or used by Brainex:
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- BRAINEX.INI
- Setup information is saved to the BRAINEX.INI file. This is a
- plain text file. All Brainex doors share this file. You may edit this
- file with any ascii text editor if you wish.
-
- BRAINEX.HLP
- This file
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- BRAINEX.DAT
- Script file for door setup information.
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- MONEY.DAT
- Callers money data for Brainex doors that use a money system.
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- BRAINEX.KEY
- If this file is present, the musical title sequence will not be shown.
- Overide with TITLE ON command.
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- REQUEST.DAT
- Offline file request information for RomBrain/Request doors.
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- COMMENT
- Text file used to replace comments in ZIP files.
- Used by File Brain, RomBrain, Request doors.
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- LIST.COM
- Used to read this help file.
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- Other files may be created by Brainex doors, and will be written to
- the Brainex default directory.
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- USING DSZ AND HS-LINK WITH NON-STANDARD COM PORTS
- =================================================
- All Brainex doors share the same DSZ batch files. Comport settings
- are passed to the batch files by the doors when they shell to DSZ.
- If you have a comport that uses a non-standard IRQ or ADDRESS, you
- should edit the included batch files.
-
- DSZ:
-
- Sample EXTSZ.BAT that uses IRQ 5 and HEX BASE ADDRESS 3E8 on NODE 3:
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- REM Zmodem Send
- IF %4 == 3 GOTO NODE3
- DSZ port %1 ha both estimate 0 %2 sz -r-m %3
- goto end
- :NODE3
- DSZ portx 3E8,5 ha both estimate 0 %2 sz -r-m %3
- :END
- ---------------------------------
-
- %4 will hold the node number as passed to it by the door, so if %4 is equal
- to 3, the batch will goto to the :NODE3 label and run DSZ using the
- portx option for non-standard IRQ and ADDRESS.
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- HSLINK:
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-
- Sample EXTSG.BAT that uses IRQ 5 and HEX BASE ADDRESS 3E8 on NODE 3:
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- ---------------------------------
- REM HS-Link Send
- IF %4 == 3 GOTO NODE3
- HSLINK -P%1 -E%2 -NU %3
- goto end
- :NODE3
- HSLINK -PI5 -PB$3E8 -E%2 -NU %3
- :END
- ----------------------------------
-
- %4 will hold the node number as passed to it by the door, so if %4 is equal
- to 3, the batch will goto to the :NODE3 label and run HS-LINK using the
- -PI and -PB options for non-standard IRQ and ADDRESS.
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- All the external protocol batch files should be edited as needed.
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- DESQVIEW TIPS
- =============
- If you get errors using Desqview, try these settings:
- Set OPTMIZE COMMUNICATIONS to YES
- Set USE MATH COPROCESSOR to YES
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- [end of help]
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