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THE CELLAR DOOR MODS 0811 CHANGES MARKED WITH "|" =============================================================================== You have in your hands the best version of RBBS you have ever seen! It took a LOT of work to make this thing, so PLEASE, read ALL the files in DOCS.ZIP! The time spent doing this will save lots of heartache later when you can't get things working right. Remember, good things take time! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USE THEM AS YOU SEE FIT: ------------------------ These mods come with no guarantees, use them at your own risk. They may be just what you wanted in RBBS and they may not. It's your decision to use them and nobody forced you to! They DO work, and I hope that with care you get them working for you too! CREDITS: -------- These mods represent many RBBS sysops' work and I will try to give credit to ALL, if I left anyone out, it certainly was not done on purpose! |First, Thanks to D. Thomas Mack, Ken Goosens, Doug Azzarito, Jon Martin, and |all of the RBBS Sysops come and gone and those remembered as documented on |page 1-2 and 1-3 of the RBBS-PC 17.4 documentation. | |Special Thanks to Rod Bowman for providing RBBSNet - the prime medium of |comunication for RBBS-PC sysops. The Maple RBBS Mods are put together by Peter Eibl, whose dedicated service is unsurpassed in the RBBS world - Thanks Pete! The Many RBBS sysops who also helped with the Maple mods (stolen from the Maple DOCS): Dan Drinnon Steve Stevens Scott McNay Lawrence Kolada Tom Collins Eddie Rowe Richard Todd John Morris Mike Otto George Brungot Randy Hoyns Bob Cramer Bob Kurtz John Zipperman Gregg Snyder K.Patz Steve Kling Mike Clark Jeremy Kerr Bob Hampton Jim Wargula Dave Miller Terry Stovall Dan Tillman Ken Humrich Jeff Barnes Sr. Jerry Toler Dave West Tom Hazel And The Following for the other Specific Mods: John Morris - RCHAT Tom Collins - ANSIEd, Ugly Greg Snyder - ALIAS Richard Todd - original WILDDOWN.BAS Dan Shore - FileSecurity, View Mods, Constant Enhancements Tom Hansen - File Security, View Mods, Constant Enhancements Bob Hampton - Upload Message Mod Rob Sulzman - original Message Printing Mod Richie Molinelli - Password Change Mod, Drop Carrier Mod, FILE_ID.DIZ And The Following for help with the CDor mods in one way or the other: Brandon Carnahan Chris Steiner Nelson Winter Jeff Alberts Rich Huss Jeff Cameron Dan Mullins | Benny Carr | Joe Golembiewski | Lars Olson And finally: Those who will probably never even see this, my BBS callers who put up with all the weird problems and bugs while the Cdor mods are under construction. After all, it's the Callers that make a BBS. Whoops, almost forgot: Howard Blake - the WildCat sysop; one day (proabably when he's BROKE) he'll see the BIG picture and run RBBS! *>>> THANKS EVERYONE!!! <<<* DAN DRINNON, The Cellar Door RBBS =============================================================================== INTRO: ------ Get a cup of coffee! Actually, you better make a whole pot! Better yet, make sure you have a whole pound of grounds before you get started! It has been found that it does in fact take quite a bit of time to implement these mods! My GOLDEN GROUCH RULE: Take your time - read all the DOCS! I don't mind a bit helping out anyone running RBBS no matter what mods or things they might be doing. BUT, when it comes to the CDor mods, I want you to read ALL the files that I took the time to write because I feel they are important enough to know. Further, being a profession computer type person, I can tell everytime when someone asks me a question and they didn't read the DOCS! Nothing gets me more irate than having to sit somebody on my lap and read the DOCS to them because they think they shouldn't have to! Please don't make me grouch-out on you! I do want to help as best I can, but help yourself first. With the growing popularity of these mods, I am faced with giving more time to answering questions which I have already addressed here or elsewhere in the files within the DOCS.ZIP file! When you decide to use these mods, you are basically voiding your support for help from the STOCK RBBS convention. The CDOOR echo has been established and is available to anybody on FIDO or RBBSNet just for the purpose of expanding the Users Helping Users concept. Please consider joining this echo for support! Further, if you use these mods and further modify them yourself, and then have problems, rather than saying you are voiding your support from me, I will say that you better let ME know what you are doing |so I don't go into PANIC mode thinking I left some awful bug in these mods when it's really YOUR bug! Please be truthful! I guess that's more than one Golden Grouch Rule. Just please understand that there has to be some concern for everyone - and that there's only 24 hours in a day and Remember.... Good things don't happen over night - it will take you a couple days, maybe a week, to set the CDor mods up! A little background... ---------------------- I've been fooling around with RBBS ever since 1986, when I first got a 300 bps modem and turned into a modem addict. I liked and still do like RBBS for it's 'UserWare' concept, and for it's tremendous versatility. Unlike other BBS packages, RBBS includes it's source, and that does make it special. Where other BBS packages leave sysops in the cold as to what they can do, RBBS lets you do what ever you want - you have the source! With that in mind, I started off by just doing little cosmetic changes. A while ago, I was sent overseas to England for 3 long years where I didn't hear a carrier at all, the phone system was all different, and I couldn't afford to pay 300 dollars for a Brittish Spec accustic coupler 300 bps modem. So, I just played with the code, I had two computers, and two modems, and was able to test the changes I made as I did them. When I came back to America, I got right back into the RBBS world and got permission from my wife to get my own phone line. Well, actually, it was a trick - my mother-in-law kept complaining that the phone was always busy (I was online somewhere) and she could never call us up. I offered the solution of a second phone line, and it worked. So, I started playing with alias mods and then at work, I got a special assignment to a Computer Management Office. It HAD a SearchLight BBS, which I did not like, so, I changed it over to RBBS in about a week. The first big mod came up when we got a complaint that you couldn't enter part of a name of a person to send a message to. So Howard and I made the EFND (Easy Find) mod to do just that. About that time, I got in contact with Peter Eibl, who used the EFND mod in the Maple Mods, and very shortly after that, I was no longer a stock beta tester, but instead was on the Maple Team, and enjoying it. It's been fun helping Pete with the Maple Mods and fixing little bugs here and there. And even comming up with some neat other things too. And now I would like to think that I'm not moving on, but rather out exploring other possibilities - hence the CDor Mods. WHAT ARE THE CDOR MODS? ----------------------- The CDor mods have all the features of Stock RBBS, except for Library support, AutoDownLoad Detect, Multi-Link, Voice Synthesizer, PCJr's internal modem and the Old Compac Plus. The reason for this is there's not enough code space with all the extra features and these stock RBBS features. So, these stock features that are considered obsolete where removed. All the added features are listed separatly in the file FEATURES.DOC. The problem with keeping the stock RBBS code, and adding my mods as well as the Maple Mods is that there was not enough code space to run RBBS. Fortunately, Scott McNay was working on making RBBS use Far String Space with the Professional Basic (PB) 7.1 compiler from Microsoft. With Scott's mods to the ASM routines used for RBBS, it was actually possible to have all these great features and still run RBBS. ALMOST FINISHED! ---------------- So, here you are, the CDor mods represent a LOT of work, many hundreds of hours, and if it were not for all the group effort of all, this would never be. I have arranged the CDor Mods distribution file with internal ZIP files, with any file you might need in it's proper ZIP file. Each ZIP file represents a given subdirectory as RBBS is configured. The README file explains what each file is within the ZIP. GETTING STARTED: ---------------- First you need to print out the DOCS that I have included here. PLEASE perform RTFM and avoid lots of problems later. Even skimming over them is better than not looking at them at all. As an RBBS sysop, you probably are already aware of the many things you have to do to set up RBBS. These mods are no different. Take the time! Second, back up your current RBBS system. Back up all your files which will be replaced by the files included in these mods. Preferably, you should just back up your entire system, making it very easy to revert back to your original setup if things go bad. It's your choice! Next, it's roll call! You MUST have these files which are not distributed with the CDor Mods, but are available on the Cellar Door RBBS as well as many other RBBS systems: BLED22.ZIP BLED 2.2 - used to merge CDor Mods with RBBS-PC source code to create the RBBS-PC/CDor version. RBBS-BAS.ZIP RBBS-PC 17.4 Distribution Archive - source code for R174BAS.ZIP RBBS-PC 17.4 RBBS-ASM.ZIP RBBS-PC 17.4 Distribution Archive - assembly routines R174ASM.ZIP of RBBS-PC 17.4 RCHAT401.ZIP Stcok CHAT mods by John Morris AED244A.ZIP Stock Ansied Mods By Tom Collins SHROM20A.ZIP Needed to create a swap file when RBBS shells out for doors or file tests - there's not enough memory when RBBS shells out normally, so SHROOM will give back needed RAM by swapping RBBS to a file. If you are using the FMS FFS: RFM-120.ZIP Contains RFM.EXE File Maintenance Utility - RFM Merges are a part of the CDor Merges, but are optional. If you use the MAKEFIDX utility supplied with stock RBBS and want to continue using it, you do not need RFM. The CDor code 'knows' if your FFS is an RFM or stock FFS. You do not have to add the RFM Merges to | the CDor code - it's already in there. If you intend | to use the Times Downloaded mod, then RFM.EXE will | NOT be able to handle the modified FMS.DIR file, you | MUST use FMSFFS.EXE (in DIR.ZIP) for FMS maintenance. | Note that it is totally OPTIONAL to have any program | do maintenance on your FMS.DIR file. QSORT411.ZIP Quick Sort utility that RFM calls to sort your FMS. Optional: ZAVT11.ZIP ANSI/AVATAR device Driver. If you are going to have Avatar Menu and Text files, you will need this device driver to display locally. BSHOW111.ZIP multi-format file viewer. MSGFRM11.ZIP Utility to 'toss' a canned message into an RBBS message base. The CDor mods use this program to send canned warning messages to carrier droppers. MAKING RBBS-PC.EXE and CONFIG.EXE: ---------------------------------- Now it's time to make your CDor modified RBBS-PC and CONFIG source files. It is best to simply put all the stock RBBS and CONFIG source files in a work directory along with the CDor .MRG files, BLED, and the MAKECDOR.BAT file found in the SOURCE.ZIP file. If you UNZIP ALL the files in CDORMRGS.ZIP, and SOURCE.ZIP and then UNZIP R174BAS source files (do not overwrite the CDor versions of RBBS-VAR.BAS and CNFG-VAR.BAS!), the ANSIED source file ANSIED.BAS, and the RCHAT source files RCHAT401.BAS and RCSUB401.BAS you can't go wrong. Run MAKECDOR.BAT. If all goes well, MAKECDOR.BAT will create all the RBBS and CONFIG source files with a .BAS extension. The stock RBBS and CONFIG source files will have been deleted. MAKECDOR.BAT also makes the modifed ANSIED.BAS, RCHAT401.BAS, and RCSUB401.BAS files in the same manner. Next, make sure that PDS7.1 is in your path and all the envirornment variables tell BC.EXE where to find the libraries it needs. Run MAKERBBS.BAT and MAKECNFG.BAT. If all went well, you should now have an RBBS-PC.EXE and CONFIG.EXE file in the same directory. Success is almost guaranteed if you used the supplied batch files and did not alter anything. I have tested each distribution file (CDORxxx.ZIP and CDUDxxxx.ZIP) to make sure they will do this following the above instructions and that they will create a working CONFIG.EXE and RBBS-PC.EXE. Sometimes things don't work out the way we want them to! If the above steps didn't work, try them a second time. If you still get problems or errors, ask yourself, did I change Dan's batch files? If I did, did I screw them up? How much free memory do I have to compile RBBS? Doe's your computer have at least 590k of Free RAM? How many FILES do I have in CONFIG.SYS? AM I missing a file for the compilation - does PDS7.1 complain about anything? Please take a look at PROBLEMS.DOC for some specific problems and their solutions! If you still have problems, you can call up the Cellar Door and download compiled versions of the CDor modified RBBS-PC.EXE and CONFIG.EXE. You |MUST be already have in your posession STOCK RBBS executables. Log on to |the Cellar Door and look in the Personal Files for the CDxxXXXX.ZIP file |that you need. CDEXxxxx.ZIP is for 286 or higher with no math CPU. |CDCPxxxx.ZIP is for 286 or higher WITH math CPU. CDBENCH.ZIP is the bench |comparison RBBS-PC.EXE and CONFIG.EXE for troubleshooting purposes. These |files can be File Requested via 8:903/2 or 1:313/6 with the MAGIC names |of CDEX, CDCP, and CDBENCH. NOW THE FUN PART: ----------------- You must run CONFIG on all your RBBS config files (RBBS-PC.DEF RBBS1PC.DEF, MAILC.DEF, etc). The reason is the CDor mods add many new parameters to the config files. In order to get you through the CONFIGuration, I have made a separate doc file called CONFIG.DOC. Read this file CAREFULLY. Pay attention to special directions. If it says "Make this option equal 2048" please do so! Lot's of testing and tweaking went into making the CDor mods work, and any of the I/O type options that I note must be a certain value, must not be changed! IF you do not run CONFIG on your *C.DEF files, then RBBS will use default values for the new options. I have MODIFIED CONFIG.EXE in two ways. First, it has been modified with extra parameters in support of the mods added to RBBS-PC.EXE. Secondly, and this is IMPORTANT, I have modified CONFIG.EXE to recongnize a STOCK CONFIG.EXE created config file and use default values for new values in the modified version. What this means is that CONFIG.EXE should read in your stock config file and when you edit/save it, it will then be a CDor modified config file. THERE IS NO REVERSAL OF THIS ACTION! Once you save your config file as a CDor config file, it's for good. By simply running CONFIG.EXE on a config file, pressing END then S to save, you have upgraded your config file. YOU WILL STILL NEED TO GO THROUGH AND MAKE CHANGES TO YOUR CONFIG FILE! See CONFIG.DOC for details. OKAY, WHAT's NEXT: ------------------ You are now ready to install the support files which are included in the CDor distribution file. The README file explains what each file is in each zip, as well as where to put each file. Some of the files (Menus, etc) can be changed and others should be left alone. Now let's go over some of the important files that comes in this distribution file! INFO FILES: ----------- README - The "CDor Index" UPDATE - List of Changes by Date WHATSNEW - Important Info on the Latest Changes BULLETIN.ZIP (C:\RBBS\BULLETIN\) ------------ This archive contains sample bulletin related files. B.FCK - sample bulletin control file using SmartText BINTRO - sample introduction file you are welcome to incorporate into your BBS. DIR.ZIP (C:\RBBS\DIR\) ------- This archive contains files which should go in the subdirectory where you have your FMS files. ADDTIMES.* - The ADDTIMES program is used to add the Times Downloaded field to your current FMS MASTER.DIR file. This is an optional feature and further instructions are later on in this documentation and in ADDTIMES.DOC. TAKETIME.* - The TAKETIME program is used to turn an ADDTIMES modified FMS MASTER.DIR file back into stock format for use with stock RBBS FMS utilities. Further instructions are later on in this documentation and in TAKETIME.DOC. MASTER.DIR - Sample FMS MASTER.DIR file with the Times Downloaded field. FMSFFS.* - Program for manipulating Times Downloaded modified FMS MASTER.DIR file. Please see FMSFFS.DOC for instructions. RBBSSORT.BAT - this is a batch file which will do an FMS sort to a files directory. It is not meant to sort directory listings which have extended discriptions. DIR.CAT - Sample categories control file. NOTHANX.DEF - File which list file extensions that you do not allow to be uploaded. Simply list each filename extension which you do not want on a separate line: .EXE .DOC .PIC This will stop a caller from uploading any filename which has these extensions. It is not required to have this file for operation, it is optional. FIDX.CFG - Sample config file for Wildcard Download support. FIDX.LST - Sample 'list' file for SYSOP8 and Multi FIDX.DEF files SYSOP8.CFG - Same as FIDX.LST except that it is used by SYSOP8 ONLY (see SYSOP8.DOC for further information) DIR.DIR - Sample Directory of Directories file. MAIN.LST - Sample control file used by RBBS to search for filenames. With the accompanied config.def setup, all your MAIN.LST file should have is the name of your FMS directory to be searched: MASTER Do not include the extension! This filename is set in CONFIG's option 218. X2ZIP?.DEF - Sample configuration file of filename extensions which you do NOT want to have automatically converted when uploaded. By placing a single NO on the first line and nothing else, RBBS will automatically convert every upload which has a CxxxXXX.BAT file available for converting. CxxxXXX.BAT could be, for example CARJZIP.BAT, to conver *.ARJ uploads to the ZIP format. By placing a YES on the first line, RBBS will ask ALL callers, regardless of access level, if they want the upload converted! A NO with file name extensions following on the subsequent lines, such as: NO .ARC .ARJ will only ask those users who have access to ADD a new description to an existing upload (CONFIG option 153) if they want to convert uploads with extensions of ARC or ARJ. If X2ZIP does not exist, then RBBS will continue the upload conversion anyway. The ? in X2ZIP?.DEF should be replaced by the NODE number you want this file active for. OFFLINE.DEF - This file will control which files you store offline and will prevent an uploader from uploading the file again. The mod only looks at what the filename PREFIX is, so there's no need to put FILE.ARJ, FILE.ZIP, and FILE.PAK, since they are all FILE as far as RBBS is concerned. HACK.DEF - This file will keep callers from uploading known hacked files as found in the Hack Report's HACK????.COL file. If a file to upload is found in this list, then the caller will not be able to upload the hack and will be shown the HACK.MSG file. HELP.ZIP (C:\RBBS\HELP\) -------- This file contains files which belong in the subdirectory which has all your "help" files. ANSIED.HLP - ANSIEd Help DISTRIB.HLP - Sample distribution file HELP09 - Help file for Graphics with Avatar and RIP NOTHANX.MSG - No Thanks explaination - use this file in conjunction with the NOTHANX.DEF (in the DIR subdirectory) file to prevent uploads of files with unwanted filename extensions OFFLINE.MSG - Offline file explanation - use this file in conjunction with the OFFLINE.DIR (in the DIR subdirectory) to prevent files being uploaded that are listed in OFFLINE.DIR RGXPIRD.HLP - expired registration message SECVIO.HLP - Security Violation message UPCAT.HLP - catergorize uploads help RGXPIRE.HLP - about to expire registration message UPMSG.HLP - sample Upload Message Help/Guidelines screen shown just before an uploader (except the sysop) does an upload. HACK.MSG - sample file shown when a caller tries to upload a known hack. PASSWORD.HLP - sample help for changing expired passwords RATIO*.HLP - sample Ratios Exceeded display file UT.HLP - sample help for for TOGGLES options QUESTION.ZIP (C:\RBBS\QUESTION\) ------------ This archive contains sample questionaire related files. EPILOG.LST - sample list for for displaying more than 1 "goodby" file. RBBS.ZIP (C:\RBBS\) -------- This archive contains files which belongs in your default RBBS directory. CALLARC.BAT - Sample uploads test and convert batches CALLARJ.BAT CALLCOM.BAT CALLEXE.BAT CALLLZH.BAT CALLPAK.BAT CALLZ.BAT CARCZIP.BAT CARJZIP.BAT CCOMZIP.BAT CEXEZIP.BAT CLZHZIP.BAT CPAKZIP.BAT CZIPZIP.BAT CARRIER.BAT - sample batch file to send canned "you dropped carrier" message CARRIER.TXT - sample canned "you dropped carrier" message If you want to send your carrier droppers a canned warning message. RBBS will look in the RBBS directory for CARRIER.BAT and if it is found, shell out and run it. It uses DORINFOx.DEF to find out who to send the message to. The message only gets sent IF you have the Dropped Carriers Drop Access mod increment set to reduce an access level higher than zero (0). If the increment is set to -1 then the message will also be sent TGIF.BAT - sample GIFGATE batch (DL GIFGATxx.ZIP from the Cellar Door!) SETERROR.EXE - resets errorlevel to 0 for batch upload testing. LOCAL.BAT - sample one time local node batch file. If you are a multinode system, you can run test versions of rbbs locally while a caller is on line by naming your test version of rbbs TEST.EXE. If this batch file finds TEST.EXE, it will run it instead of RBBS-PC.EXE. Reason for this is you don't want to copy over a different copy of RBBS-PC.EXE while a RBBS-PC.EXE is running as it will propbably lock up! This batch file assumes that your LOCAL node is node 2. RBBS.BAT - sample RBBS batch for BinkleyTerm. If you don't run a front end mailer, then you should be fine by using your existing RBBS.BAT file or the one 'out of the box' as supplied with stock rbbs. The command files are as follows: SHROOM -Q RBBS-PC.EXE %node% RBBS%node%PC.DEF /%1 /%2 /%3 %4 SHROOM -Q: Required else you will not be able to shell out and run upload test programs or doors which require more than 150k of RAM or so. %node% : The node number for this copy of RBBS RBBS%node%PC.DEF : The config file for this copy of RBBS /%1 : The amount of time before the next external event /%2 : The DTE rate to the modem (19200, for example) /%3 : The actual connect rate (2400, for example) %4 : Reliable mode - NOTE that there is no "/" here! BinkleyTerm passes this value as "/REL" so that there is no need to add a "/" and it will not work if you do because the RBBS.BAT file would pick this parameter up as "//Rel"! VIEWFILE.BAT - sample view batch file for use with BVIEW (BVIEW111.ZIP) The CDor mods use BSHow. See the VIEWFILE.BAT file for the parameters passed to this file. MENU0C - ANSI color MENU0 screen - layout designed for the CDor mods. MENU0 - ASCII (no ANSI color) MENU0 screen. Regardless of which menu you use, it MUST be called MENU0 If you want the color menu, then rename the MENU0C file to MENU0. MENU0-1.DEF - MENU0 data file - This file will be created automatically if it doesn't exist. The "1" indicates NODE 1. 50CONFC.DEF - sample conference with a *C.DEF Config File RBBS1PC.DEF - sample RBBS-PC.DEF Please read the CONFIG.DOC file for setting up your config files with the CDor version of RBBS! ECHOCONF.DEF - sample list file to keep RBBS from searching for non-local users in echomail conferences. MAKEPCBD.EXE - This program will create a PCBOARD.DAT file from a CDor config file. Type MAKEPCBD at the DOS prompt for usage. SYSTEM.ZIP (C:\RBBS\SYSTEM\) ---------- This archive contains sample files for the operation of RBBS. PASSWRDS - sample PASSWRDS file with Dropped Carrier mod and Forced Password Changed mod. DOORS.DEF - sample DOORS.DEF file with selectable door drop files declared and authorized to log off from door mod. TEXT.ZIP (C:\RBBS\TEXT\) -------- This file contains sample Menu files included for reference against the supplied CONFIG.DOC and config.def samples. You are free to use them as you wish, however you may want to edit them to reflect your BBS name! AUTOOFF.MNU - Log Off menu for file transfers LOGOFF.MNU - Goodbye menu WELCOME.LST - This is a sample list file for the multiple welcome file display mod CHAT.MNU - Internode Chat Menus CHATC.MNU SYSOP5.MNU - menu for Sysop's menu key 5 SYSOP8.MNU - Menu for Sysop's menu key 8 LGSTATS - sample Statistics menu PAGED*.MNU - sample screens shown to pagers when you are not around PROTO*.MNU - sample Protocol Options Menu Screen TOGGLES*.MNU - sample Utilities Toggle Options Menu XFER.ZIP (C:\RBBS\XFER\) -------- This archive contains files which belong in the subdirectory for RBBS which you have set as your location for the protocol definition file. PROTO.DEF - this is a smarttext colorized sample proto.def file. Stock RBBS can show smarttext colors in a proto.def file, but when a user does a file transfer, RBBS prints their protocol type to the screen with the smarttext color control codes. The CDor mods strip the smarttext code out of the protocol type so that they don't see the smarttext codes. TWEAKING THE SYSTEM: -------------------- There are a few things to do now that you have successfully compiled RBBS-PC and CONFIG and made your changes to your RBBS-PC.DEF file. If you added or changed the above listed files to your rbbs directories, then you should be ready for callers. You must edit your PASSWRDS file to reflect the changes in the CDor mods. Please see PASSWRDS.DOC to set up your PASSWRDS file before you run up the system! Next, go thru the next section and bit by bit modifiy the CDor installation as directed. You MUST GO all the way thru these next steps or problems will occur. As modifications get implemented, the newer mods are documented at the end of this section. THE ADDED FEATURES OF THE CDOR MODS: ------------------------------------ The BCFS mods: -------------- These are what makes the CDor mods possible. All work was done by Scott McNay of THE WIZARD II BBS, (817) 554-5331. Please read Scott's documentation entitled BCFS.DOC. The Maple Mods: --------------- Most of the Maple Mods are added to the CDor Mods. There are some slight differences and changes from the Maple Mods. The Cellar Door is a developement BBS for the Maple Mods. The Maple Mods originate from Peter Eibl. Pete is taking a break from the Sysop Business from July, 1993 until an undisclosed time hopefully in the not so far off future. Paged Message Mod: ------------------ If you want a file shown to callers that page you during your off-hours or when you are not around, create a file called PAGED.MNU and place it in your TEXT subdirectory. Graphics versions of this file are supported. Alias Mod: ---------- True Alias naming is supported by creating a zero length alias control file for any conference or subboard you wish to allow aliases in. If you have a conference called DND, the config file is DNDC.DEF, with DNDM.DEF and DNDU.DEF for the Messages and USERS file, then the file DNDA.DEF would contain the Alias names of your users. To create an alias file: C:\RBBS>type DNDA.DEF >DNDA.DEF The ALIAS file must be in the same location as your MESSAGES file for that conference. Will create a zero lenth alias file for the DND conference. After that, the next time someone joins the conference, RBBS will look for the alias file, find it and then ask the caller if they want to use an alias and store their alias name in this file. To reset their alias, delete the line that has their alias name and they will be asked again the next time they join the echo for an alias name. The SYSOP cannot have an alias name! The original ALIAS mod was by Gregg Snyder. This version was upgraded to the current version by Peter Eibl. Sysop's Alias: -------------- Normally, with the Alias mods, the SYSOP cannot have an alias name in an alias confernce. This is because the sysop's secret name to log on is treated as an alias name already. So, we need to do a little trickery: The Cellar Door's modifications to CONFIG.EXE add an ASCII 255 to the end of the sysop's public last name. This will allow you to use your real name as your secret name, the only difference is that the ASCII 255 is part of your public last name. When you run CONFIG, the ASCII 255 is automatically added to the end of your public last name if it is not there. Next, if you want your secret name to be the same as your public name, go to CONFIG's option to enter your secret name, and enter it so that the name is the same but the CASE is different. In otherwords, if my public name is DAN DRINNON, then I make my SECRET name Dan Drinnon. CONFIG has been modified to save your secret name without capitalizing it. This is all that needs to be done. You can now join an alias conference and have a real alias name just like your users. If you chose to NOT have a setup with secret names like above, RBBS will still refuse access to anyone who tries to log on with your public name. Batch Uploads: -------------- Batch uploading is offered as an option anytime anyone selects the Upload option. The batch upload routines are by Peter Eibl. Logging On: ----------- I rearange the way RBBS looks to the caller when logging on. After a caller logs on, they are shown "Granted access...", then "Logging [Name] From [City]", then the WELCOME SCREEN, The Bulletins/NEWS, then the New Files, then the "stats". Finally, they are asked if they want to check the message bases and given the opourtunity to read new messages. SmartText Colors: ----------------- I added the capability of 16 foreground and 8 background smarttext colors. Please read the COLORS.DOC file for all info on using the smarttext colors. Also see SMARTTXT.DOC for ALL of the Smarttext Commands. While on Colors Mod: -------------------- It took a lot of string space, but there is LOTS of added color to the CDor mods. Color is used only when the users has Color Graphics selected or if they have selected HIGHLIGHTING ON. Very Fast Turbo Logon: ---------------------- You get to the MAIN menu with minumum reports. Internode Chat: --------------- The RCHAT401 mod by John Morris is incorporated into the CDor mods. John's BBS, The Abandoned Land is at (702)746-1365. Who Uploaded What?: ------------------- An option in the UTILITIES menu is to list who uploaded what. Private uploads are included in this file too, but only the sysop will see private uploads listed. This option is controlled by CONFIG. This mod was by Peter Eibl and adapted to the CDor mods. Menu Driven Information Screen: ------------------------------- This option gives the caller the chance to view Prelog, Welcome, Newuser, and LGx.DEF files. By Peter Eibl New Messages Read Them Now mod: ------------------------------- Prompt to read new messages when logging on or joining a conference. This is further controled via CONFIG #282. This feature can also be selected by your users when you have CONFIG #282 off and they have THEIR Read All New Mail Toggled on. ANSIEditor: ----------- By Tom Collins is incorporated. Initialized Quoting: -------------------- All quotes will have the Quotee's initials in the messages. Is That the Phone, Dear? mod: ----------------------------- Uses BASIC's PLAY for Sysop's Page Bell to play a sound like a telephone. If the user has ANSIMusic ON, then they get to hear the same sound! ANSIChat: --------- The original Cellar Door Split Screen ANSI Chat! SmartText capable Messages! --------------------------- All messages can have SmartText in them! By Scott McNay. Also see SMARTTXT.DOC for ALL of the Smarttext Commands. Logging Off Mod: ---------------- Smart Menu Driven Log Off to abort, use Time Bank, or send a Comment before caller logs off. If the caller does not have access to the Time Bank, that option wont be shown in the command line prompt and will be replaced with an "*" just as any invalid option is on the main menus. Minor Cosmetic Mod #1: ---------------------- C)ity and State will be shown instead of C)City and State, as long as your 'City/State' option starts with "City" when using the SYSOP's Key 5 Sysop's 5 Mod: -------------- ANSI Menu Drive Sysop's key 5 originated from the Cellar Door. Color Proto.Def mod: -------------------- SmartText Colorized Proto.Def support! Thanks to Cy Stanton for the colors! Also see SMARTTXT.DOC for ALL of the Smarttext Commands. QUIT Mod: --------- QUIT modified to QUIT [C]onference and Rejoin MAIN as default. Quit to M)ain in a conference will send them to the main menu of the conference they are currently in. Before, I had problems with users selecting [Q]uit, then pressing enter, then leaving me messages about anything, and they were leaving these messages in ECHO MAIL CONFERENCES! This mod helped get rid of this problem. GoodBye Mod: ------------ GoodBye is now configurable for the MAIN menu. It replaces the @ (Library) command which is not used. Add Uploader's Name Mod: ------------------------ Adds User's Name to Upload description option. This option is controlled in CONFIG #99. MENU0 Mod: ---------- Enhanced MENU0 with stats and running clock. Originated from the Cellar Door. Line25 Mod: ----------- ANSI Colorized LINE 25 info with option to change callers's time. Time Change mod by Gregg Snyder. Screen clearing and restore line 25 mod originated from the Cellar Door. They Never Wait That Long Mod: ------------------------------ 15 Seconds for Auto Log off instead of 30 - Sleep Disconnect is 30. EFND Mods: ---------- EFND Mods - The Original Cellar Door 'Easy Find' Mods - lets caller enter only part of a name to search for a person to send a message or personal upload to. Adapted to RBBS version 17.4 by Peter Eibl. 46 Character Descriptions Work Mod: ----------------------------------- 46 character file descriptions wont add a CRLF to the end of the display. This was a fix done by Scott McNay which he did while doing the BCFS mods. Enhanced "Who's On" Mod: ------------------------ Part of the RCHAT401 mods, tells what the other callers are doing and gives the oppourtunity to start a chat. Controlled via CONFIG #22. Sysop's Option 7 Mod: --------------------- Option for SYSOP's function 7 - DOS Exit to use a DOOR (batch file). By Peter Eibl. DOOR.SYS Mod: ------------- DOOR.SYS support! Originated by the Cellar Door and Eddie Rowe, who were working on the same thing at the same time. After the two of us shared notes, the current DOOR.SYS mod was the result. The Cellar Door features the capability to read back in a DOOR.SYS file after a door runs. While On Doors Mod: ------------------- DORINFOx.DEF, DOOR.SYS, and PCBOARD.SYS files can be selected thru your DOORS.DEF file for creation when a door is executed. The 9th parameter of an entry in your DOORS.DEF file tells RBBS which door drop file to create: Before: GAMES,50,,,"GAMES.BAT",N,,90 After: GAMES,50,,,"GAMES.BAT",N,,90,D D = DORINFOx.DEF S = DOOR.SYS in your nodework directory R = DOOR.SYS in your nodework directory P = PCBOARD.SYS in your nodework directory Every parameter in the door drop files are attempted to be initiated. However, RBBS does not support some items, such as the Callers Phone Number, and these type lines are left blank. A separate file called MAKEPCBD.EXE is included to make the sometimes required PCBOARD.DAT file from your RBBS config file. The PCBOARD.DAT file should only need to be created once per configuration file and only changed when you change your RBBS config file. If you specify "R", then the DOOR.SYS file WILL be read back in after a door for any changes a door may have made to it. You use this feature at your own risk - a door can change a user's security level to something that you may not want them to have! Be Careful! See "And Yet Another Doors Mod" for further setup required for your DOORS.DEF file! And Yet Another Doors Mod: -------------------------- Some Doors allow the caller to log off from the door and drop DTR. This is great except that RBBS treats that as a dropped carrier when the door returns to the BBS. The code has been modified to put a "Logged Off from Door" entry in the callers log instead of a "Carrier dropped" and it also will not send a "You dropped Carrier" message (if enabled) or count a dropped carrier against the caller. NOTE: RBBS will still be SLOW when recouperating from a door that can drop the DTR. The DOORS.DEF file will now require a 10th parameter to specify whether or not to handle a door that can drop DTR: Before: GAMES,50,,,"GAMES.BAT",N,,90 MAILMGR,50,,,"MAILMGR.BAT",N,,90 After: GAMES,50,,,"GAMES.BAT",N,,90,D,N MAILMGR,50,,,"MAILMGR.BAT",N,,90,D,Y A "N" at the end means the caller should not be dropping carrier and the door does not, and a "Y" is just the opposite. The Y or N MUST BE IN CAPS! It should be noted that even if a caller CAN log off from a door, if they drop carrier from the door instead of logging off, the carrier drop will still be considered "normal" since RBBS was told a carrier drop was ok. Of course this example also shows the door drop file to make as well. They Didn't Get the Extension Right Mod: ---------------------------------------- Wrong FileName extensions for a download will find the right filename extension. If a callers enters FILE.ARJ to download, but FILE.ARJ does not exist and FILE.ZIP does, FILE.ZIP can be downloaded. By Peter Eibl. File Xfer Logoff Mod: --------------------- Log Off Options before starting downloads or Uploads That Makes Sense Mod: --------------------- Upload descriptions are given before an upload Twit Message Mod: ----------------- "You Dropped Carrier!" Canned message support. Originated from the Cellar Door. Look and put the included CARRIER.BAT file into your RBBS dir to use this mod. More Color Mods: ---------------- Colored Directory listing headers by Peter Eibl. RFM Mod: -------- RFM FMS FFS Support. Not required, the CDor mods will look to see if you are set up for RFM FFS. RFM concept by Warren Muldrow. NOTHANX Mod: ------------ UNWanted files list support by Peter Eibl. OFFLINE Mod: ------------ Offline files list support by Peter Eibl, enhanced for the CDor mods. Test Upload? Mod: ----------------- Prompt to SYSOP to test a SYSOP originated upload. By Peter Eibl. Print Message Mod: ------------------ Option to send any message to the printer or a filename. Originally by Rob Sulzman to print, Cellar Door modification to send messages to a filename along with idiot proofing. File Transfer Info Mod: ----------------------- Info on the caller is displayed before the caller starts a file transfer. By Peter Eibl, enhanced a little for the Cellar Door. SmartText in PUI's Mod: ----------------------- Multi-line PUI prompts allowed. Prompts MUST have quotes around them. By Scott McNay. Also see SMARTTXT.DOC for ALL of the Smarttext Commands. Dropped Carriers Drop Access Level Mod: --------------------------------------- You can configure RBBS via the PASSWRDS file to automatically lower any callers Access Level. This is done by adding two extra parameters to the PASSWRDS File - number of carrier drops allowed, and increment to lower the access level. For example, BEFORE: (stock RBBS) ,10,15,15,365,10,,,0,0,0,0,0 AFTER: ,10,15,15,365,10,,,0,0,0,0,0,20,1 will lower a caller with access level 10 one integer lower for every 20 dropped carriers. If you do not want to lower their access level, use a 0 for the last paramter. Please look at PASSWRDS.DOC for complete info on the PASSWRDS file! By Richie Molinelli. The Time to Change Password Mod: -------------------------------- After so many calls, the caller is forced to change their password. This is controlled by yet another entry in the password files, a number is used to indicate how many calls go by before the user must change their password. A 0 will turn off this feature. So the PASSWRDS file from above will look like this: BEFORE: (stock RBBS) ,10,15,15,365,10,,,0,0,0,0,0 AFTER THE DROPPED CARRIER MOD: ,10,15,15,365,10,,,0,0,0,0,0,20,1 AFTER THE PASSWORD MOD: ,10,15,15,365,10,,,0,0,0,0,0,20,1,50 This will make the caller change their password every 50 calls. When a caller's password expires, you can display a help file called PASSWORD plus whatever your default help file extension is as set in CONFIG. The PASSWORD help file must be in your "HELP" subdirectory. Please look at PASSWRDS.DOC for complete info on the PASSWRDS file! By Richie Molinelli. Turbo Logon AFTER first Call Mod: --------------------------------- You can configure RBBS via the PASSWORDS file to only allow those with TurboLogon access as set in CONFIG to use Turbo Logon only after their first call of the day. You must change the PASSWRDS file (again) as follows: BEFORE: (stock RBBS) ,10,15,15,365,10,,,0,0,0,0,0 AFTER THE DROPPED CARRIER MOD: ,10,15,15,365,10,,,0,0,0,0,0,20,1 AFTER THE PASSWORD MOD: ,10,15,15,365,10,,,0,0,0,0,0,20,1,50 AFTER THE TURBO LOGON MOD: ,10,15,15,365,10,,,0,0,0,0,0,20,1,50,0 A 0 means the caller (If he or she already has TurboLogon privleges as set in CONFIG with their access level) can have TurboLogon on their first call of the day. A 1 in this field means they will not have TurboLogon until after their first call of the day. Please look at PASSWRDS.DOC for complete info on the PASSWRDS file! Upload Time Factor in PASSWRDS File: ------------------------------------ An 18th parameter to the Passwords file is for controlling Upload Time Factors by security instead of the global one you set in config. This value works the same way as in config - 1 for no time taken, no time given, then 2 and higher multiplies the time it took to upload the file and gives it back to the uploader. This new parameter is handy to give different access levels different upload time factors and to also give different time factors during different hours of the day. Here is how the above PASSWRD file lines will look: BEFORE: (stock RBBS) ,10,15,15,365,10,,,0,0,0,0,0 AFTER THE DROPPED CARRIER MOD: ,10,15,15,365,10,,,0,0,0,0,0,20,1 AFTER THE PASSWORD MOD: ,10,15,15,365,10,,,0,0,0,0,0,20,1,50 AFTER THE TURBO LOGON MOD: ,10,15,15,365,10,,,0,0,0,0,0,20,1,50,0 AFTER UPLOAD TIME FACTOR MOD: ,10,15,15,365,10,,,0,0,0,0,0,20,1,50,0,3 Please look at PASSWRDS.DOC for complete info on the PASSWRDS file! So Long, Twit! Mod: ------------------- ALT-END will log off your caller with fake line noise. Yet Another Twit Mod: --------------------- If you create a file called TWITLIST.DEF and place it in your RBBS directory, then any user name (one per line) in this list will never be able to upload, and if they try, they will get a message telling them the file (no matter what the file is) is stored offline. Control Conference Join Mod: ---------------------------- Since there was no control for a caller to join any conference, as long as the access was high enough, a mod has been added so that no one can join a conference that is not in the conference mail scan file as specified in CONFIG #93. It should be noted that although the RBBS docs say that the file in CONFIG #74 must have the conference in CAPS, this feature does not work. |FILE_ID.DIZ Directory Listing Mod: |---------------------------------- In conjunction with the upload batch testing file CALL*.BAT, if an upload has a FILE_ID.DIZ file descriptor file, then RBBS will look in the node directory for this file and replace whatever the uploader | described for the upload with the description in the FILE_ID.DIZ. | The MAIN description of the upload will be line #1 of the FILE_ID.DIZ file. | The semi-official ASP standard for FILE_ID.DIZ files are 1). no more than | 45 characters per line, and 2). no more than 10 lines. Therefore, assuming | that you get mostly standard FILE_ID.DIZ files, you should set your FMS | description length to 45 or 46 for best results. Originally developed by Richie Molinelli. PLOAD Message Mod: ------------------ If a file called UPMSG.HLP exists in your HELP directory, then an uploader will be displayed this file. If you have subboards with separate files areas, then RBBS will look for the filename of whatever your message file is for that subboard plus a U.HLP. So if your subboard message file is called DIRTM.DEF then the upload message file should be called DIRTU.HLP. If your message file doesn't follow the M.DEF standard, say it is called DIRTMSG, then the upload message file would be called DIRTMSGU.HLP. Needless to say, it would be best to follow the M.DEF standard... Separate RGXPIRE and RGXPIRD.HLP Mod: ------------------------------------- This mod allows you to have separate RGXPIRE.HLP and RGXPIRD.HLP files based on access levels. If you don't run subscriptions then this wont matter. If you do, then you can still use these two "stock" files, or, you can make separate files for whatever security levels you have that are controlled by subscription. Simply make a file called RGXDxxxx.HLP and/or RGXPxxxx.HLP, where the xxxx's are the security level. The security levels can't be higher than 9999 for this mod. RGXDxxxx.HLP is the RGXPIRD.HLP and RGXPxxxx.HLP is the RGXPIRE.HLP file. These files belong in your HELP subdirectory and will be searched and displayed if found, if not then the stock files will be shown instead. - Yet another Cellar Door mod! No Hacks Mod: ------------- This mod will keep callers from uploading known hacks by using a file called HACK.DEF in your DIR subdirectory. If the file to be uploaded is found in this file, then the caller is shown the file HACK.MSG in your HELP sub- directory and then returned to the FILE command prompt without the ability to upload the hack. GIF Dimensions in Upload Descriptions: -------------------------------------- If a GIF is uploaded, then RBBS will try to get the size and number of colors in the GIF and put that information in front of the upload description like this: PICTURE.GIF 123456 01-10-93 (640x480x256) a real neat picture The lenght of the description is automatically shortened by 15 characters when the uploader is prompted for a description to allow for the extra info in the description. - A Cellar Door mod! WELCOME.LST Mod: ---------------- You can creat a file that is called what ever you called it in CONFIG option #69, with ".LST" as an extension (WELCOME.LST for example) and in it, list all the files that you want shown as welcome files. Here is an example: C:\RBBS\TEXT\WELCOME C:\RBBS\TEXT\LASTON If the file WELCOME.LST, or what ever you called it in CONFIG option #69 with a ".LST" extension does not exist, then RBBS will look for the WELCOME file you specified instead. The ".LST" is special, and RBBS will only do the multiple files if it can find the .lst welcome file. Upload to a Security Level Mod: ------------------------------- This is from the 0115-MRG Stock RBBS update, which will allow you to do a personal upload to a Security Level by simply entering the Security Level to upload to as the name during the Personal Upload process. Multiple FIDX/LIDX Files Mod: ----------------------------- The multiple FIDX list mod now looks for the name of the FIDX file with the filename extension of "LST". Instead of a generic "IDX.LST" file, RBBS now looks for whatever then name of the file you entered in CONFIG #267 with an extension of .LST. For example, if your entry for CONFIG #267 is FIDX.DEF, then the multiple FIDX list file must be FIDX.LST. The contents of the .LST file are as follows: FIDXNAME,LIDXNAME,MASTER DIR NAME,DESCRIPTION LENGTH FIDXNAME = CONFIG #267 LIDXNAME = CONFIG #268 MASTER DIR NAME = CONFIG #214 + CONFIG #209 DESCRIPTION LENGTH = CONFIG #219 In RBBS, this could translate to C:DIR\FIDX.DEF,C:DIR\LIDX.DEF,C:DIR\MASTER.DIR,43 If you want a SUBBOARD's file system accessable from your MAIN board, simple continue your "FIDX.LST" file with it's info: C:DIR\FIDX.DEF,C:DIR\LIDX.DEF,C:DIR\MASTER.DIR,43 C:DIR\ADUFIDX.DEF,C:DIR\ADULIDX.DEF,C:DIR\ADULT.DIR,46 If the .LST file does not exist, then the file listed in CONFIG #267 will be use as in stock RBBS. SYSOP'S MENU 8 MOD: ------------------- The sysop's menu has 8 options instead of the normal 7 options, the 8th option being the FMS/FFS maintenance utilities. With the 8 option, you can Add, Delete, Find, Move, any of your upload/download files from anywhere on your computer. In other words, you can stick a floppy in drive A: and add a file from Drive A: to your upload or download area. This mod is FFS sensitive, and will update your FIDX/FIDXT.DEF files when you Add, Delete, or Move a file. You can also do Personal uploads from any source drive and path. The best way to understand this mod is to try it out! Another Cellar Door Original! Please note that you cannot add or move the same file to and from the same directory! Please see the SYSOP8.DOC file for complete information. 199 Line Messages MOD: ---------------------- You can configure the Main board and subboards to allow up to 199 lines per message. EGA/VGA 43/50 Lines MOD: ------------------------ You can select between 25,43, or 50 line displays in CONFIG #328 for local screen display. The ANSIED mods will handle the different screen dimensions too, however, if the local sysop's screen is LESS than the Caller's default Page Length, then ANSIED will force the Caller's page length to the local page length as set in config, temporarily. For example, if you are set to have 25 lines for local display, and a caller set with 49 lines uses the ANSIEditor, then while in the ANSIEditor, the Caller is forced to 23 lines. When the caller is done with the ANSIEditor, the Caller's 49 lines per screen will be restored. This keeps illegal function calls from occuring by rbbs routines trying to print information on the local screen which would other- wise be off-screen. WILDCARD DOWNLOADS: ------------------- Added in Support for Wildcard Downloads! To enable this, you must creat an FIDX.CFG file in your RBBS DIR subdirectory. The filename is whatever the name is of your FIDX.DEF file with a .CFG for the extension. The format for the file is as follows: 200 50,C:\RBBS\UPLOAD\ 50,C:\RBBS\DOWNLOAD\ 100,C:\RBBS\SYSOP\ line 1 is the max number of Marked Files allowed before the search is stopped. line 2 and up. Line 2 is the Security level and a Directory. You should always include your upload directory and any directories NOT LISTED IN FIDX.DEF that you want searched. This mod will only look for files listed in this file and in the FIDX.DEF file. You do not need to have ANY directories listed in this file, but you MUST have the number of Marked Files allowed. If this file doesn't exist, then the WildDownload mod WILL NOT BE ENABLED! When this mod is enabled, you will know by seeing (Wildcards OK) in the download prompt. The WILDDOWN.BAS was originally by Richard Todd of 1:3612/299. Extensive modifications to the RBBS source files by Dan Drinnon. Extra mods to WILDDOWN.BAS by Peter Eibl and Dan Drinnon. WILDDOWN.BAS is modified and included with the Cellar Door mods with permission from Richard Todd. Remember that there are limits, and I haven't found them yet, but currently RBBS doesn't control how many marked files can be marked, so eventually, string space will run out. It is recommended to keep the max number of Marked Files allowed number LOW to prevent this from happening. Each marked file takes up 13 bytes. Multiple Epilog Displays: ------------------------- Added EPILOG.LST support. This file is just like the WELCOME.LST mod inwhich your default EPILOG questionaire will be looked for and ran, and then if there exists in the same directory an EPILOG.LST (or what ever the BODY of the filename you call your EPILOG file) then RBBS will read each line in this file and look for None, ASCII, and ANSI versions of the file and display them. Note that this mod only DISPLAYS the files you list and does not run any questionaires. Example format is: C:\RBBS\TEXT\GOODBY C:\RBBS\TEXT\OTHERBBS C:\RBBS\TEXT\CALLAGIN This file must have the same filename as whatever you set in CONFIG #85 with the extension of ".LST". It also must be located in the same subdirectory as specified for CONFIG #85. EFND Enhancement MOD: --------------------- Added mod to EFND that will turn off checking for local user name in any conference you specify. To enable this, create a file called ECHOCONF.DEF in your RBBS directory. In this file, put the NAME only of any conferences you do not want RBBS to check for local users: RBBS-PCM.DEF BINKLEYM.DEF etc... Any Message file in ECHOCONF.DEF will prevent the search of a message recipiant. Personal Files Menu: -------------------- Added support to display P.MNU to the caller when in Novice mode when Personal Files is selected at the FILES command. You can put whatever you want in this menu, such as what each Personal Files command does and that Personal Files can only be downloaded from the Personal Files prompt. Graphic support (PG.MNU, PC.MNU) is also supported. This file must be in your TEXT subdirectory. A CDor mod. Personal Files Mods: -------------------- The Fix for the Lost Personal files after Marking them has been added (a Stock Bug) as well as allowing Extended Descriptions for Personal Uploads. A Cdor mod. ANSIEd for Extended Descriptions: --------------------------------- The Full Screen Editor (ANSIEd) can be used for entering extended descriptions on uploads. MsgToss LOG Mod: ---------------- This mod allows you to use the MsgToss /AREA: feature to read in a file called TOSSx.LOG created by RBBS which contains a list of echo conferences that have new messages ready to be scanned. To make all this happen, first you must run CONFIG on the echomail conferences config files of your choice and change CONFIG #12 to the AREA name of the conference as entered in your "AREAS.BBS" file. RBBS will now create a TOSSx.LOG file any time a new message is posted in those conferences. x being the node number. Next, you need to create a batch file to handle the TOSSx.LOG file: REM MSGSCAN.BAT :TOP SET NODE= FOR %%A IN (C:\RBBS\TOSS*.LOG) DO SET NODE=%%A IF %NODE%. == . GOTO NETSCAN MSGTOSS /SCAN/RBBS/FIDO/FIX/AREAF:%NODE% DEL %NODE% GOTO TOP :NETSCAN CALL NETSCAN.BAT My BINKLEY.BAT file calls MSGSCAN.BAT before running BT.EXE to make all this work. NETSCAN.BAT runs QMail for message packing and routing. Obviously, this mod will require some thought on your part on how to implement into your echomail system. This mod originally written by Peter Eibl and Larry Kolada. Avatar Graphics Support Mod: ---------------------------- Added in Avatar display command support! To display Avatar files, your users must select A)vatar graphics in the UTILITIES Graphics command. Because of this addition graphics mode in RBBS, the user's graphics number table has changed. Because their OLD graphics number will be incompatible with the NEW graphics number table, I have added in a small feature to FORCE all of your users to re-select their graphics preferences at logon without having to make them do this from the UTILITITES menu. To implement this feature, first you must run CONFIG and select option #186 to make all users answer the "required questionaire". Next select option #82 for the NAME of the questionaire. Enter any path you want and then enter "GRAPHICS". "GRAPHICS" is a magic word that will make all this happen. Once your users have re-selected their new graphics preferences, they will not be asked again. This feature may also be re-used anytime you want all your users to re-select their graphic preferences. The Avatar files for menus and text files follow the same scheme as the other RBBS files. The Avatar files use a "V" to distinguish them between the other files. As before, an ANSI file uses a "C" and a ASCII file uses a "G". There are now 4 possible files. For example: WELCOME - "none" WELCOMEG - ASCII WELCOMEC - ANSI WELCOMEV - AVATAR Here are the NEW user color values: NORMAL BOLD Graphics R G Y B P C W R G Y B P C W none 30 34 38 42 46 50 54 | 58 62 66 70 74 78 82 mono 31 35 39 43 47 51 55 | 59 63 67 71 75 79 83 ansi 32 36 40 44 48 52 56 | 60 64 68 72 76 80 84 avatar 33 37 41 45 49 53 57 61 65 69 73 77 81 85 To create Avatar files, you must have a program that will make Avatar files. TheDraw version 4.6 will do this. There is also a little program called ANSI2AVT that will convert ANSI files to Avatar. Neither one of these two will make perfect Avatar files, and I can guarantee you that you will have to manually figure out and edit Avatar files to get them to properly display. Finally, you will need to have an AVATAR device driver to display Avatar files on your local screen. I uses a driver called ZAVT.SYS which works flawlessly for both ANSI and AVATAR display commands. All these files are available on the Cellar Door RBBS as: TDRAW460.ZIP 288178 ANSI2AVT.ZIP 20386 ZAVT11.ZIP 47337 Without the Authors of the above programs permissions, I cannot distribute their work in the Cellar Door Mods package. If you do not want to have Avatar support for your users, simple do not create any Avatar Menu and Text ("V") files. If any users select A)vatar and their are no Avatar files for display, RBBS will look for ANSI ("C") files instead, and then "none" files if no ANSI files are found. Avatar emulation also handles ANSI display commands. Note that SmartText overlayed into Avatar menus do not work well. See RIP Graphics Mod further on in this document! Nodeable Subboard Callers Log Handling Mod: ------------------------------------------- In Stock RBBS, when you have a subboard that has a different callers log filename from the MAIN board's file name, RBBS would write the subboard's callers file to whatever is entered in CONFIG #90 for a path, REGARDLESS of what node is doing the actual logging. The end result is that in a multi-node system, two caller's could end up having their activity logged to the same file. The 'right' way to log activity of subboards of different nodes is to log the file in it's own subdirectory. As per RBBS docs, multi-node RBBS's should have a separate subdirectory for each node. C:\RBBS\NODE1\ C:\RBBS\NODE2\ etc. The Cdor mods make sure that in a multinode system (even if your NODE 2 is a local node), the proper callers file is logged to. Keep in mind that this problem in STOCK RBBS only happens when the original, MAIN callers log file and the subboard log file have different names. Nodeable LGx.DEF Mod: ---------------------- "Nodeable" LGx.DEF files can be used, simply add the node number in front of the LGx.DEF file for any node that you want a unique LGx.DEF file. For example, if you want all callers with access level 50 on NODE 3 to be displayed a unique LGx.DEF file for that node, make a file called 3LG50.DEF. If you don't want to use this feature, do nothing, the default LGx.DEF files will still be displayed if they exist. Tell them to LOG OFF Mod: ------------------------- You can now display any message you want to your caller at any main prompt (MAIN,FILE,UTIL) by pressing ALT-F7. The file to display must be located in your TEXT subdirectory (where your welcome file is) and must be called LOGOFF. Graphic versions of this file are also allowed. Free Downloads List Mod: ------------------------ Added capability to make any file free in a Ratio BBS system by creating a file called FREE.DEF in your "DIR" subdirectory. Any file in your FMS system that you to be a free download simply needs to be entered in this file. Here's a sample of FREE.DEF: R174ASM.ZIP R174BAS.ZIP R174DOC.ZIP R174EXE.ZIP R174EXT.ZIP R174LIT.ZIP R174SMF.ZIP R174TXT.ZIP R174UTL.ZIP RBBS-NET.ZIP RBBSLIST.ZIP If you don't want to have any free files or use the "/FREE" FMS option instead, then you don't have to make a FREE.DEF. If a download is found in the FREE.DEF list, then the 'Ratios Enforced' and other ratio messages will be suppressed, just as if the download were a personal download. External Statistics Mod: ------------------------ The Statistics shown when first logging on or in the UTILS "S" command are now stored externally as a smarttext file. Create a file which musth be called LGSTATS (graphic and color versions OK) in the same subdirectory as your "WELCOME" file subdirectory. You can put any info you want in this file, but it MUST exist if you want any info displayed with the UTILS "S" command! Included is a sample STATS file. Also see SMARTTXT.DOC for ALL of the Smarttext Commands. Tell them Why You are Next Mod: ------------------------------- Added feature to display a file to the caller when the sysop wants the system next after pressing F7. The message file must be called SYSNEXT, and be located in the same directory as your WELCOME file. Graphic versions (SYSNEXTG,SYSNEXTC,SYSNEXTV) are checked for. If you do not want a message displayed, then do not create this file! If you have callers who have SYSOP level access, they will not be displayed this file and will toggle off the Sysop Next flag. Otherwise, once you press the F7 key, until a sysop level access caller logs on, all callers will be displayed the "SYSNEXT" message file at any MAIN prompt - the MAIN, UTIL, or FILES. Offline Files List for Subboards Mod: -------------------------------------- You can now specify separate OFFLINE.DEF files for subboards with file systems by naming the file the name of the MAIN FMS Directory Name plus .OFL. For example, if your MAIN FMS Directory as set in CONFIG #214 is SPECIAL, then SPECIAL.OFL would contain the list of offline files. Files in this list must be listed one file per line. SysOp's Pop-Up Help Mod: ------------------------ By pressing ALT-F1, a Sysop's Help screen will be displayed. This feature is only active while a caller is on line. If you find that the display scrolls off the screen too quickly, you can add a SmartText character {SO to turn off SNOOP so you can read the help file. Press F9 to reactivate snoop. CALLERS.TXT Mod: ---------------- CONFIG #39 has been changed from using BASIC's PRINT command to print info on the local screen to allow for logging all activity to a "CALLERS.TXT" file. The name of this file is automatically given the same name of your callers file as set in CONFIG #90 with an extension of "TXT". The main purpose of this mod is for future growth - there is an awesome 'last callers' program in the works and this file will probably be used for a quick look from Menu0 of recent callers activity. At this time, the CALLERS.TXT mod does NOT log password fails. The CALLERS.TXT mod will use a NEW Last Callers program written for the CDor mods by Howard Blake. The program is available on the Cellar Door as RSTAT*.ZIP. INFOScreen Menu Mod: -------------------- The MAIN menu [I] command now uses an external menu called INFOSCR in your TEXT subdirectory to let your callers know the screens available. We Interrupt the NEWS Mod: -------------------------- The CONFIG Option #38 has been changed from the option to use Machine language for Speed to allow for the option of making the NEWS file display uninterruptable instead of matching whatever was set for the Welcome file being interruptable in CONFIG #27. WHO'S ON MOD: ------------- CONFIG #22 now controls the 'Who's On' command. If you want to allow non-sysop level callers to see who's on or has been on other nodes, set this parameter to Yes. Otherwise, a no will show non-sysop callers that offline nodes are "Waiting for next caller". CONFIG #22 USED to let you show the caller their File Transfer statistics, but this feature can be done using the LGSTATS screen. TIMES A FILE WAS DOWNLOADED MOD: -------------------------------- Added Times Downloaded option. This option will keep track of the number of times a file has been downloaded in your FMS directory listing. To turn this feature on, you must do 2 things. First, you must add an extra 5 character field to your FMS directory listing. The program ADDTIMES in the DIR.ZIP file will do this for you (read the ADDTIMES.DOC!). Next, you must run CONFIG on all your RBBS config files and set the new option, #174, Show Times Downloaded when listing files to YES. That is all there is to it! RBBS will automatically keep track of each listing in your FMS directory list and increment the times a file has been downloaded after a caller downloads a file. NOTE! Downloads will ONLY be incremented if a XFER-x.DEF file is created by your protocol driver. CONFIG #174 replaced CONFIG #29, which means these MODS will only work on IBM/PC/AT "compatible" computers. The support for the PCJr and Compaq/Plus has been removed. TRANSFER TIME MOD: ------------------ Added Transfer time display to extended file list description. If the caller opts to turn Extended off at the files listing prompt, then the transfer time for each file will not show. This option is further controlled with CONFIG #100. CONFIG #100 uses the old, no longer used AutoDownload checking option which is no longer used, so no special changes need to be done with your config file(s) other than selecting what you want. EXTERNAL PROFILE DISPLAY MOD: ----------------------------- Externalized the Review Profile information shown if you have CONFIG set to remind callers of their profile and also in the utilities "R" command. To make this work, you must have a file called PROFILE in your "TEXT" subdirectory. All info that has been in this screen is now handled with SmartText and you can add or remove any info you want in the Profile display. Graphics versions of PROFILE are allowed. PROFILE is included in TEXT.ZIP. See SMARTTXT.DOC for all the SmartTxt Options you can use with this file TOGGLE OPTIONS MENU MOD: ------------------------ Externalized the Toggles option of the UTIL command. You must have a file called TOGGLES (Graphics versions allowed) in your TEXT subdirectory. A sample TOGGLES file is included in TEXT.ZIP. RIP GRAPHICS SUPPORT MOD: ------------------------- Added in RIP display command support! To display RIP files, your users must select R)IP graphics in the UTILITIES Graphics command. Because of this addition graphics mode in RBBS, the user's graphics number table has changed. Because their OLD graphics number will be incompatible with the NEW graphics number table, I have added in a small feature to FORCE all of your users to re-select their graphics preferences at logon without having to make them do this from the UTILITITES menu. To implement this feature, first you must run CONFIG and select option #186 to make all users answer the "required questionaire". Next select option #82 for the NAME of the questionaire. Enter any path you want and then enter "GRAPHICS". "GRAPHICS" is a magic word that will make all this happen. Once your users have re-selected their new graphics preferences, they will not be asked again. This feature may also be re-used anytime you want all your users to re-select their graphic preferences. The RIP files for menus and text files follow the same scheme as the other RBBS files. The RIP files use a "R" to distinguish them between the other files. As before, Avatar files use a "V", an ANSI file uses a "C" and a ASCII file uses a "G". There are now 5 possible files. For example: WELCOME - "none" WELCOMEG - ASCII WELCOMEC - ANSI WELCOMEV - AVATAR WELCOMER - RIP Here are the new color numbers: normal bold Graphics R G Y B P C W R G Y B P C W none 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 | 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 mono 31 36 41 46 51 56 61 | 66 71 76 81 86 91 96 ansi 32 37 42 47 52 57 62 | 67 72 77 82 87 92 97 avatar 33 38 43 48 53 58 63 68 73 78 83 88 93 98 RIP 34 39 44 49 54 59 64 69 74 79 84 89 94 99 If you do not want to have RIP support for your users, simple do not create any RIP Menu and Text ("R") files. If any users select R)IP and their are no RIP files for display, RBBS will look for ANSI ("C") files instead, and then "none" files if no ANSI files are found. By DEFAULT, when a caller has RIP graphics selected, then the following user options will be force: TurboKeys will be OFF Lines Per Page will be set at 23 Expert Mode will be OFF These options will be saved when they log off. If they deselect RIP and select a different graphics option, then operation will be normal. There are also some included RIP files which are called for by the CDor mods: RIPWINL - this file is active during the log on sequence up to the MAIN MENU. you can also place it in your WELCOME.LST file when displaying non-RIP screens. It will be active until the next RIP screen comes up and overrides this one. RIPWINF - this file is active when listing files RIPWINM - this file is active when reading messages RIPWINC - this file is active when view conferences SmartText can be manually placed (carefully) in a RIP file for further control. Most used is the Non-Stop {NS and the Clear Screen {CS. External RBBS CopyRight Screen: ------------------------------- the RBBS-PC copyright display is now external in a file called COPYRITE.DEF which must be located in the RBBS subdirectory. Protocol Menu Mod: ------------------ You may add an option PROTO.MNU protocol options menu and locate it in your TEXT subdirectory. The staple PROTO.DEF file must still be used to determine what types of protocols are available. The PROTO.MNU file is just a display menu. The usual graphics versions of this file may be used. If the PROTO.MNU file cannot be found, then the old way of displaying the PROTO.DEF file will be used as before. Extra User Options Mods: ------------------------ Several User options have been added which are all saved to the users record by splitting the interger value for the right margin setting into a 1 byte value for the right margin and thus allowing for 8 more savable user options. The added options are: Read New Mail - a user togglable option which will make rbbs ask them if they want to read all new mail when you have CONFIG #282 - Skip Mail Check at log on turned off. Reselect All - this is a SYSOP controlled user option flag which can be controlled with either the SYSOP's 5 key while on line or with an added CONFIG option #193 - Make all users reselect preferences. The effect of this option on a user is they will have to reselect their Graphics, Protocol, and all other Toggle options the next time they log on. Reselect Graphics - this option is also a SYSOP controlled user option flag which can also be controlled either on line or with an added CONFIG option #194 - Make all users select graphics preference. More Promt Erase - this is a user selectable option which controls wether or not the "More..." prompts get erased or RBBS sends a CR/LF instead. Since the routine that Wipes a line (WipeLine) will NOT wipe a line when NULLS or on, NULLS are automatically turned off when the user selects to have the More prompt erased. ANSI Music - Users can now select ANSI Music for the Prompt Bell in the Toggles options. Also, when a caller has ANSI Music on they will hear the same "telephone ring" while paging that you do! When in LOCAL mod, ANSI Music is not used. Extended DIR Display - The Extended +/- option when listing files is now saved to the User Record. Reselect Protocol - This is a SYSOP controlled user option flag which can be toggled on line with the SYSOP 5 key or with an added CONFIG option #195 to make ALL users reselect protocols. Never Can Page - This is a SYSOP controlled user flag controlled via the SYSOP 5 key which will cause a user to always get the sysop not in message/file when they try to page the sysop during the sysop paging hours. Use at your own discretion. Note that if you have your system to allow new users to select their personal preferences, then they are allowed to select these preferences: Name: Default if not allowed to select: ------------------------------------------------- Prompt Bell OFF UPPER CASE OFF Skip New Bulletins OFF (further controlled via CONFIG) Skip New Files OFF (further controlled via CONFIG) ANSIEd OFF TurboKeys OFF Available for CHAT OFF Extended DIR OFF OFF Read New Mail OFF (further controlled via CONFIG) Erase More Prompt ON (OFF When NULLS is ON) ANSI Music OFF Lines Per Page 23 Protocol None Graphics White ANSI 37 Bold Off ANSI/RIP Detect Others: Log On Defaults: -------------------------------- Expert/Novice Novice Nulls OFF LineFeeds ON SYSOP Controlled Log On Defaults: ----------------------------------- Ans. Questionaire NO Mail Waiting NO Filw Waiting NO Reselect ALL NO Reselect Graphics NO Reselect Protocols NO Never Page NO For further details on the encoding of these options into the user record, please examine the DefaultU SubRoutine in RBBSSUB2.BAS Notes: 1). First, the "GRAPHICS" questionaire will no longer force an old caller to reselect their graphics preferences. Error checking has been added into the CDor mods to ensure that if an old caller logs on with an old color value (before the RIP or Avatar mods) then they will see displayable text, may not be their favorite color, but they can at least read the display - if they leave you a complaint msg, just use your SYSOP 5 key ("U" when the sysop is reading a message) and toggle their reselect graphics flag. 2). The SYSOP5.MNU has been seriously rearranged - be sure to use the NEW SYSOP5.MNU! 3). Be sure to review the revised TOGGLES.MNU screen for the extra toggles a user can toggle while online and add them to your toggles menu! They're A Leech Mod: -------------------- If you run a Ratio Files system, then you may want to create an option RATIO.HLP file! This file is displayed whenever a downloader trys to download beyond their ratio limit. All graphics versions of this file are supported. This file must be located in your HELP subdirectory and be called "RATIO" plus the default filename extension for your help files as set in CONFIG. Pick Your Colors for DIR Listings Mod: -------------------------------------- CONFIG options 323,324,325,326 now control the colors of the directory listing display. The first 4 user colors are now hard coded into the mods. An added option, 329, controls the color of the extended description. This paramter replaced the Library Program in CONFIG. You should run config on your MAIN RBBS-PC.DEF file and all subboard .DEF files to set your color for extended descriptions. If RBBS can't get a legal color for extended descriptions from your config file, then it will use the regular description color by default. DOZ File descriptions Mod: -------------------------- Added support for .DOZ files for upload descriptions. The .DOZ file is used for handling descriptions for uploads like a FILE_ID.DIZ is, however the .DOZ file is external to the upload and one .DOZ file can have descriptions for more than one upload during a batch upload. Since the CDor/Maple modifed RBBS asks an uploader for a description and category (if allowed) BEFORE the upload, the uploader must still enter something for a description regardless of the .DOZ file. The mod will look for a .DOZ file entry in the XFER-x.DEF file and if found, use it to look for the upload description. If the upload | has a FILE_ID.DIZ within the archive, then the FILE_ID.DIZ will override the | .DOZ file description. After the process of searching a .DOZ file for | descriptions is complete on all uploads in a batch upload, then the .DOZ file | is deleted. Note the difference between the CDor/Maple batch upload and stock | batch upload is that stock asks for all the info on a file AFTER the upload is | complete. If these mods were redone to ask for file info AFTER an upload, | then that would basically take away the AutoLogOff feature available after an | upload. So, that is the way I decided to implement the mod. I *will not* be rewriting these mods so that they are like stock in asking for descriptions and upload categories AFTER an upload! The .DOZ file format is by Dan Shore and originally developed for his batch upload program for RBBS called RBatch. The basic format of a .DOZ file (as far as what the CDor Mods needs) is as follows: {FI FILE1.ZIP X This is the description of FILE1.ZIP it can be 80 characters wide and no more that 10 lines long. {FI FILE2.GIF X This is the second file. The lines must be LEFT Justified and the first four characters must be "{FI " (an {FI and a SPACE). Then follows the name and after that any character. This is reserved for the categories, but not used with these modes as the category is already given before the upload and before this file is read. The .DOZ file format is by Dan Shore and originally developed for his batch upload program for RBBS called RBatch. The .DOZ file can be created using Tom Hansen's TagFile utility. In summary, you may not ever use this mod, but it is benificial to your batch uploaders to enter extended descriptions off line in a .DOZ file and then uploading the .DOZ file along with the rest of the uploads. For more info on RBatch, see the file RBTCH222.ZIP available here or from Dan Shore's BBS, the ShoreLine BBS at 1-301-946-2771. For more info on Tom Hansen's TagFile utility, see the file TAG200.ZIP available here or from Tom Hansen's BBS, The Church Chatters BBS at 1-402-593-8863. |How To Read Mail 101 Mod: |------------------------- | If your callers can't seem to read their mail, or never check it, you can | further enhance the "you have mail!" mod by creating a file called MAIL.HLP, | assuming .HLP is your default help file extentions and then this file will | be displayed to the caller at logon, regardless of Turbo Logon selection. | The best use for the MAIL.HLP is to give quick instructions to your callers | on how to read their mail. | |PageUp Mod: |----------- | The sysop's Page Up key will now display a file called USERINFO which must | be located in your TEXT subdirectory. It relies on SmartText to show the | User Information, and you may place whatever SmartText values you want in | this file (Note that the supplied USERINFO file is designed for a 50 or 43 | line LOCAL screen!). | |Conference and Long Conference Name Mod: |---------------------------------------- | Pete Eibl's CONFNUM mod has been added in. This mod allows callers to | select a conference by entering a preset NUMBER for a conference name OR | the actual conference name. To enable this option, you must create a | Conference Number file in the same directory you keep your CONFMAIL.DEF | file. The conference number file must be called whatever you call your | CONFMAIL.DEF file with the extension of "NUM" - CONFMAIL.NUM, for example. | This allows you to have separate CONFMAIL.NUM files for subboards which | might have different CONFMAIL.DEF files. The format of the CONFMAIL.NUM | file is as follows: | | 1,C:\RBBS\MESSAGES\MAINU.DEF,C:\RBBS\MESSAGES\MAINM.DEF,MAIN | 2,C:\RBBS\MESSAGES\CDOORU.DEF,C:\RBBS\MESSAGES\CDOORM.DEF,CDOOR | | The FIRST parameter is the conference number, which the caller can type in | as the conference to join. The Users and Messages are for the respective | conference, and finally, the AREA name is the last parameter, allowing for | entry of CONFERENCES with names longer than the 7 character limit placed | on the filename of a conference to join. Too Many More to Mention Mods: ------------------------------ That's most of them, there are more, and will be more added as well. I hope I didn't leave anyone out or miscredit anyones mods, if so, I apologize now. The file UPDATE contains a documented date format of all the mods and fixes that have been added or done to these mods. THE END? -------- This basically covers all that is needed to get the CDor version of RBBS up and running. By now, if you did everything right, you should be able to run RBBS without any problems, and if you had problems before you tried this version, they might be gone now - I did a LOT of fixes and changes to rbbs to make this working version. I spent MANY hundreds of hours making them work the way they do. Many others have spent just as much time too. An additional file in the DOCS.ZIP file called PROBLEMS.DOC address some of the problems others or myself have encounter and the solutions. Please take a look at REPORT.DOC for any bugs, descrepancy, ideas and gripes you may have about these mods! This is the first set of docs, and I am sure I probably left out something important or even a small bit of helpful information. In all, it should not be too hard to switch over to the CDor mods!