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- ***** "Renegade Quoter" *****
- ****** RG Quoter v1.1 ******
- ** Written by Scott Wiggin **
-
- Disclaimer:
- -----------
-
- Although I tested this program thouroughly on my own PC and
- have found that it works perfectly, I do not make any promises
- that it will work for you. By you using this program you agree
- to NOT hold me responsible in any way for any damage that may or
- may not happen you you, your computer, your software, or anything
- else. But don't worry, it's only a little program - What harm
- can it do? <devious laugh> :)
-
- What it does:
- -------------
-
- This program is like many other Quoter programs I'm sure you've
- seen. It reads from a huge file of quotes, picks one, then
- either writes the quote to the screen or to a file (in my case,
- both). I was always looking for one that didn't have bugs, and
- one you didn't have to put any input into, and one that you could
- choose the name of the output file. I never found one with all
- of these qualities, so I wrote my own. It will only work for
- Renegade BBS sysops, though. All it does is read from a few
- files and write to a few files - that's it! No need for anything
- else. But don't worry, it is semi-configurable.
-
- How it works:
- -------------
-
- All you do is type RGQ11.EXE and you're done. I suggest you
- run the sample batch file (which you should edit to reflect your
- own system setup, of course) as a Nightly Event, that way it
- makes a new quote every day. There are a few other files you
- MUST have in order for RG Quoter v1.1 to work:
-
- POINTER.NDX <-- Pointer to next quote
- RGQ.CFG <-- Config file
- QUOTES.BBS <-- Quote file
-
-
- POINTER.NDX will simply contain a number of the line to start
- reading from the quotes file the next time it is run. If you
- ever experience any problems, just edit this file so it just has
- the number 1 in it and re-run the program. The pointer will
- automatically reset itself to 1 when it gets to the end of the
- file.
- RGQ.CFG contains 2 lines. The first line is who you want to
- name as the author of the quote. See, this quoter actually puts
- the quote in your AUTO-MESSAGE!! When reading the automessage it
- usually says something like:
-
- More Words of Wisdom from : So-And-So #1
- ( then the quote )
-
- So the first line in your RGQ.CFG file will be the name of the
- person or thing or WHATEVER you want the quote to be from. Mine
- says my own name, that way the users think I put put the quote in
- there myself. In the sample RGQ.CFG file I gave you, it says RG
- Quoter v1.1, that way it looks like a Quoter Program did it.
- The second line is the number of the color you want the text to
- be. In your Renegade setup, you defined 10 colors, 0 thru 9.
- Just put one of those numbers on the second line of RGQ.CFG and
- the whole quote will be in that color! (you can change the color
- of the name of the person by editing the strings in your RG
- configs by adding ^# (where # is 0 thru 9) after the string
- itself)
- QUOTES.BBS is an 11,000 line file containing over 4,000 quotes.
- You CAN add to the quotes, but be sure that in between each quote
- (and after the last quote) there is an asterisk ('*'), just like
- you see in there now. If you somehow damage that file, just
- unzip it again from this archive.
-
- That's it!
- ----------
-
- Well, that's it! Nothin' to it! It's all very easy and
- straight-forward. But, if you have any questions, comments,
- DONATIONS <G>, or ideas on how to make it better (or to make it
- work for another type of BBS software other than Renegade) just
- call my BBS:
-
- Misty Mountain BBS
- (203) 248-7133
- SysOp: Wigmaster
-
- Leave me E-Mail anytime. Thanks for using my product. And by
- the way, this is shareware - NOT CRIPPLEWARE! I made all
- versions full-featured and full-strength. There is no
- registration fee, but please feel free to send me a small
- donation for my hard work. Please feel free to distribute this
- program ONLY in it's original form to anyone and any BBS. Oh
- yeah, and you are hereby PROHIBITED from selling this program in
- any way to anybody. Thanks! :)
-
- Scott W. Wiggin
- Writer of RG Quoter v1.1
- Copyright (c) 1993 Scott W. Wiggin
- Written in Turbo Pascal v6.0
-
-
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