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- Maximus IPC Creator
- Copyright 1991 by Peter G. Zion. All rights reserved.
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- OS/2 port by Mark Lehrer of 1:157/535 (thanks for the motivating
- comment toward the end!)
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- "File protect" bug fixed by Bill Bond, 1:325/118, 8/12/92
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- This program is freeware; and the warrantee reflects it. Use this
- program at your risk. I promise nothing, except that it works on my
- system!
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- (Same for OS/2 version, compiled 12-2-91 with Microsoft C 6.00 - ML)
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- Maximus IPC Creator is a quick hack I wrote for multi-node Maximus
- systems. It makes it appear as there is someone (whose name and action
- you choose) on another node, even when Maximus isn't running on the
- node.
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- Usage is simply. Maximus IPC Creator is run from inside your Maximus
- IPC directory (as defined in Max.Ctl). IPC.EXE accepts three
- parameters. The first is the DECIMAL node number you want the node
- number for the "fake user" to be. The second is the name of the user
- you want to appear as being on the node you specified. The third
- parameter is the action that this user is performing. Both the second
- and third parameters must be enclosed in double quotes if they are more
- than one word.
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- Example:
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- IPC 2 "A User" "Doing something"
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- Will show up in Maximus as:
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- Username Node Status
- ─────────────────────────────────── ──── ─────────────────────────────
- A User 2 Doing something
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- Usually, Maximus IPC Creator will be run from a batch file. For
- instance, my BBS batch file does a:
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- cd \tmp ; My Maximus IPC directory
- \util\ipc %1 "Binkley Term" "Waiting for call"
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- ...before loading Binkley Term. The node number is the variable %1.
- This way, if Binkley Term was loaded on node 2, Joe User on node one
- would see:
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- Username Node Status
- ─────────────────────────────────── ──── ─────────────────────────────
- Joe User 1 Available for chat (you)
- Binkley Term 2 Waiting for call
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- NOTE #1: this utility has been tested ONLY with Maximus 2.00. It
- probably will work with 1.02, but I haven't bothered to test it.
- Besides, you would have to have a real good reason to NOT upgrade to
- 2.00...
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- NOTE #2: the source code is included so that Mark Lehrer can get someone
- to compile an OS/2 version for him... :-)
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- Have fun!
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- Peter G. Zion of 1:249/148
- 11-12-91
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