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- Time Bank
- the UNdoor door
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- Copyright 1991
- by Raymond Clements
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- SysOp of
- The Pegasus BBS
- (502)684-9896 HST
- (502)684-9871
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- Seamless interface to allow the depositing and withdrawing of BBS
- time by your callers. Commands are intended to be issued from
- within PCBoard and not from within the Time Bank door.
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- This is expected to be used only with PCBoard v14.5a and higher.
- Use of MS-DOS v3.30 or newer, and compatible, system is required.
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- Introduction:
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- This text is not complete on setting up doors, or a copy of PCBoard.
- It is assumed you have purchased PCBoard and have all needed docs on
- proper BAT files, and the use of PCBSetup.exe and other required
- support files from Clark Development Co.
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- Features:
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- Allows sharing of 100% of the files
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- Separate maintenance program for sorting data file
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- Fully functional while Unregistered, just not seamless
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- This is meant to be run as a SHELLED door for faster access
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- Updates caller's log with the number of minutes deposited or withdrawn
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- License to Use and Distribute:
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- PCBoard is a registered trademark of Clark Development Co., and all
- reference to such is here to identify their software, and the proper
- expected use of Time Bank in conjunction with such software.
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- All programs released relative to Time Bank, including, but not
- limited to TIMEBANK.EXE, TBMAKTXT.EXE, and TIMEUTIL.EXE are copyrighted
- by Raymond Clements, and all rights are reserved by the author.
- No alterations may be made in any manner to the distributed group
- of files composing the Time Bank package except by the author, either
- individually or as a whole.
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- Anyone has the right to distribute unaltered copies of the entire
- Time Bank package as a whole, without further permission.
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- The Time Bank package is released without a warranty for any specific
- purpose whatsoever, and anyone using any portion of this software
- package has no claim upon the author for damages, and uses such
- software at his/her own risk.
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- All software is distributed freely through Bulletin Board Systems and
- no person or company is allowed to charge any fee for distributing
- any portion of the Time Bank package without separate license from
- the author. Under US copyright law, full compensation, including all
- legal fees incurred, will be recovered from violators of this license.
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- The only acceptable fee under this license is any amount required for
- only diskette and postage costs when distributed in such manner by
- any not-for-profit group, whether a computer User's Group, or a
- public Bulletin Board System. No compensation for service or labor
- to provide diskette copies is allowed under this license.
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- No use is allowed of Time Bank on any system for a period of more
- than 30 days of evaluation without registration. It is distributed
- under the "shareware" concept, to allow a proper trial period before
- registering, and is not free software, nor in the public domain.
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- Why Time Bank?
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- I used to use a TPA style time deposit door, but because my BBS is
- small (a little over 1100 registered callers) I found that the TPA
- style door wasted too much disk space and wasn't seamless. Because of
- this I decided to write Time Bank, the UNdoor door. When registered,
- Time Bank is completely seamless to the caller using it because it does
- no serial port I/O of its own. All serial port I/O is done by PCBoard
- through PCBDOOR.TXT and PCBSTUFF.KBD.
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- TIMEBANK.BAT:
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- This file is a sample PCBoard batch file used to execute Time Bank.
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- @ECHO OFF
- CD\DOORS\TIMEBANK
- TIMEBANK TIMEBANK.CFG
- CD\PCB
- EXIT
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- Line #1 - Turn off the echo (@ is for DOS v3.3 or higher)
- Line #2 - Switch to your Time Bank directory
- Line #3 - Execute TIMEBANK.EXE passing to it the name of your Time Bank
- configuration file
- Line #4 - Switch back to your PCBoard directory
- Line #5 - EXIT back to PCBoard
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- TIMEBANK.CFG:
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- This file MUST be put in the directory from which TIMEBANK is called
- and contains all needed filenames and flags for Time Bank.
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- C:\PCB\PCBOARD.SYS
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- Line #1 - Path & filename of your PCBOARD.SYS file
- Line #2 - BBS name
- Line #3 - SysOp's first name
- Line #4 - SysOp's last name
- Line #5 - Minimum number of minutes of the callers NOT allowed to use
- Time Bank (in other words, all callers that have at least
- this much daily time will NOT be allowed to use Time Bank)
- Line #6 - Maximum number of total minutes callers are allowed to
- withdraw from their accounts per day
- Line #7 - Number of digits in the lottery number
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- TIMEUTIL.EXE:
- This program MUST be run in the SAME directory as the TIMEBANK.DAT
- file. It can be run in your event to sort TIMEBANK.DAT by the
- parameters you pass to it on the command line. Valid parameters are:
- BALANCE, DATE, and/or NAME. These parameters may be combined if you
- prefer and used in any order. You don't have to use this, but I do
- (ie. TIMEUTIL BALANCE DATE is what I use) and recommend it. You may
- also use the parameters INTEREST # in your event to turn the Time Bank
- into a Time Savings Bank by giving each account # percent interest.
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- TBMAKTXT.EXE:
- This program MUST be run in the SAME directory as the TIMEBANK.TMP
- file. It's used to convert the TIMEBANK.TMP file into the
- TIMEBANK.TXT format used by Time Bank.
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- TIMEBANK.TMP:
- This file MUST be put in the SAME directory as the TIMEBANK.EXE
- file. It can be modified using your favorite ASCII text editor.
- NONE of the lines may be longer than 98 characters. Please remember
- that each line, when displayed by PCBoard, should NOT be more than
- 79 characters long.
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- TIMEBANK:
- This file MUST be put in with your other PCBoard help files. It's
- a @X colorized file used by PCBoard to provide your callers with
- helpful info for using Time Bank.
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- The BRDM file normally used for the Main Menu should have one major
- change. You should add the command TIMEBANK.
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