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NxtEvent
v1.0
Copyright (c) 1990, Jim Dailey
DOOGER'S Place BBS
Fido Net 202/309
First the legal stuff. NxtEvent is guaranteed only to take up space on
your disk. I have ran the program successfully on both of my PC's and
have not experienced any problems. NxtEvent is not public domain, and
remains my property. NxtEvent is SHAREWARE. If you find NxtEvent useful
the fee is $30. Please take the $30 and step away from the computer,
get your kids together and take them to dinner and a show. If you have
no kids, then take the $30 and donate it to a youth organization. I
personally do not need any renumeration.
If you experience any problems, or have suggestions for improving
NxtEvent, please netmail your comments to me at Fido Net<tm> node
202/309.
Now, enough of the chit chat. I have been a member of Fido Net for 5
years using mostly Opus<tm> software. With PCBoard<tm> 14.1 came
support for front end mailers. I immediately purchased and converted to
what, I think, is a superior BBS program. The only short coming is the
inability for PCBoard to recognize events defined in the front end
mailer. As an NC I have several forced events. My only problem was that
I had no way to tell PCBoard of these events and, I often run them late.
Thus the birth of NxtEvent.
The samples I present here will be for BinkleyTerm as, that is what I
use for my mailer.
Prior to exiting on a human caller, Binkley creates a BBSBATCH.BAT file.
This batch file invokes another batch file called SPAWNBBS.BAT. A sample
SPAWNBBS call is as follows:
SPAWNBBS 2400 1 231
The 2400 is the callers baud rate, the 1 is the com port and the 231 is
the number of minutes to Binkley's next event. In SPAWNBBS.BAT I have
inserted the following line before starting PCBoard:
NxtEvent PCBoard.Dat %3
The %3 is replaced by the minutes parameter shown above. The minutes is
added to the current time and stowed in PCBoard.Dat in record 113, which
is the time of the PCBoard event. As I said previously, it works on my
BBS and I have yet to miss and event.
NxtEvent event requires 2 command line parameters. The first is the name
of your PCBoard.Dat. If this resides in other than the current directory
the path name is also required. The second parameter is the number of
minutes til the next event. The maximum number for this parameter is
1440 minutes which is 24 hours.
I hope you find and NxtEvent useful and enjoy that movie with the kids.