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- The idea of rotating what day of the week it is, and having your
- BBS display a different bulletin for THAT day, is NOT unique. I
- have explained below WHY I wrote this little utility MYSELF,
- though.
-
-
- There Are 3 VERY BASIC STEPS to follow. (For the PCBoard
- operator.)
-
-
-
- 1) Copy ALL the CONTENTS of this ZIP Package to the
- "WHATDAY" directory. If you haven't made it, make one
- now.
-
- 2) Include the line:
-
- "CALL [d:]\WHATDAY\WHATDAY.BAT"
-
- in your EVENT.SYS
-
- 3) Include the file %[d:]\WHATDAY\DAYBULL in your LOGOFF
- Script or Your NEWs file. (Or any other places that I
- may have over looked as a smart place to include it.)
-
- PCBoard Operators have the facility for PCBoard to look
- and display a file by including on a single line:
-
- "%[d:]\FILE.NAM"
-
- in their bulletins.
-
- [d:] d=drive letter, of course.
-
- If you prefer NOT to have the program output,
- execute it (within the batch) like so:
-
- WHATDAY > NUL
-
- THAT's IT!
-
- Programming Notes:
-
- * The program operates FINE using the current directory for a path.
- There's really no need to create the WHATDAY directory. I merely
- posted it that way to make it simple. You can run WHATDAY ALL BY ITSELF
- in the current path. You MUST have DAYx in the default directory though.
- When the program finishes, you can simply "TYPE" DAYBULL to your screen.
-
- This is an extremely SIMPLE program that merely uses a "SHELL" to
- get the date from DOS. Figure out what number day of the week it
- is, then it "SHELLs" to copy the file DAYx over DAYBULL. Modify each of
- the "DAYx" files to your heart's desires. The "DAYx" files are simply
- ASCII type.
-
- * * NOTE: **** THE VERY FIRST INSTRUCTION IN THIS PROGRAM IS TO
- CLOSE any open FILES. I run this program with ALL NODES
- DOWN, DURING MY EVENT. If you think this will cause you
- any problems with your setup, or you'd like to run it
- in your $$LOGOFF.BAT and NOT have it CLOSE files,
- PLEASE CALL me?! I'll send you the program WITHOUT that
- instruction included.
-
- I ran this program with MS-DOS 3.3 on up to MS-DOS 5.0
- for well over a month, without ANY problems. It's going
- to be an EXTREMELY rare case this program will NOT run
- on your system.
-
- Why this program?
-
- Writing a program to help the System Operator with this minor
- task and NOT posting a message ALL OVER the place, asking for a
- $xx donation, or broadcasting something to the effect "NON
- Registered Copy . . . " etcetera is what inspired me to write
- this program.
-
- I'm SICK and TIRED of programmers writing something that helps
- the SysOp, but then blasts it all over the place that "This Is
- NOT Registered!" or BEGs for money from the SysOp, who has
- already spent HALF his life offering his BBS. (Understatement,
- eh?)
-
- My opinion is that SysOps have already paid DEARLY for the
- AWESOME service (we) they provide. Programmers should come up
- with an idea to ask the BBS `END USER' to help "Register"
- software, NOT THE System Managers! They'd have a MUCH larger
- return on their projects. There are A LOT more End Users than
- there are SysOps.
-
- The ONLY thing that I ask for THIS little utility is that `MAYBE'
- someday, you call and say thanks. THAT's IT! Enjoy "WhatDay"
-
- Bill Fink
-
- SysOp - NCCBBS
- Middletown, Rhode Island 02840
-
- Owner - User Friendly Systems
- CUSTOMER Designed IBM Compatible Systems
-
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