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USER'S BIRTHDAY DOOR
SYSOP's DOCUMENTATION
January 3, 1990
By
Larry Reeves & Kirk Lewellen
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COPYRIGHT/LICENSE INFORMATION
This program, the manual, and all information regarding
them are the property of HOT Programers. This program,
the manual, and all information regarding them MAY BE be
copied or distributed by any entity, private or public,
without the permission of HOT Programers Authors provided
no fees are received or transferred. This application is
distributed through the share ware concept.
COPYRIGHTS and TRADEMARKS
HOT Doors (R) is a registered trademark of HOT COM
Quick basic (R) is a registered trademark of Micro soft Corporation
PCBoard (R) is a registered trademark of Clark Development Company (CDC)
MS-DOS (R) is a registered trademark of MICRO SOFT Corporation
DSZ is copyrighted Omen Technology Inc.
Door Source is Copyrighted Computer City, USA 1988, 1989, 1990
DISTRIBUTION
You may make copies of the program files for USERBD door and the
documentation (Not to include the USERBD.EXE registered) files together
and distribute them to others, upload to bulletin boards etc. for
non-commercial purposes. The program files should not be distributed
with the USERBD.EXE registered file. None of the files should be
modified in any way.
NOTICE
This program, and all supporting programs and documentation are
provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed
or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties
of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no
event will HOT Programers, HOT COM or The HOT BBS be liable to
you for any damages arising out of the use or inability to use
this program and/or all supporting programs and documentation.
All prices and other information are
subject to change without notice.
DOOR Setup
Make a batch file to run the DOOR as described in your PCBoard
(R) documentation.
Create a sub directory to place all the files into.
Example:
CD \DOORS\USERBD
USERBD UBD.cfg <== Runs USERBD.EXE passing a parameter
of UBD.CFG
CD \PCB an example of this file is below.
BOARD
Example xxxxxxxx.CFG file:
Configuration File
The configuration file's first four lines is setup up exactly like
most other doors. It should be:
Multi Node systems require a .CFG file for each node.
Full Drive\Path\and name of PCBOARD.SYS
BBS'S name
Sysop's First name
Sysop's Last name
A example of this when filled out would be:
C:\PCB\PCBOARD.SYS
The HOT BBS Local
Larry
Reeves
The example file UBD.CFG and the demo PCBOARD.SYS may be used
to test or run the program from the DOS command line.
AS: USERS UBD.CFG <ENTER>
The versions of PCBoard are 11.8 and up, including support for 14.0
and up! The default bbs type is PCBoard 14.x. If you wish to change
that, simply put this into your environment table by using the DOS
command, SET.
SET DORSRC=PCB14 - Door Source will run PCBoard 14.x (DEFAULT)
SET DORSRC=PCB121 - Door Source will run PCBoard 11.8+ with COM1
SET DORSRC=PCB122 - Door Source will run PCBoard 11.8+ with COM2
Another way to change the setting for the bbs type is on the command
line, simply put PCB121 on the command line for PCBoard 11.8+ on
COM1 and PCB122 on the command line for PCBoard 11.8+ on COM2, like
this :
USERBD UBD.CFG PCB121
DOOR Operation
User's Birthday Door in Operation will have the status line on the bottom
of the screen on line 24 and line 25. It will show these things:
1. The caller's baud rate
2. The caller's name
3. Time left in the door in minutes.
4. The name of your door and release version number.
5. Door Source 3.0
6. The time the door was entered, current time and flags if any.
7. Graphics mode (GR) or (NGR)
8. Bell/Caller alarm toggle status
The function keys open for the sysop to use are the following:
(F4) Page Bell Toggle
(F7) Caller Alarm Toggle
(F8) Return the user to the bbs
(F10) Start chat with user
(ESC) End chat with user
(ALT-X) Exit to DOS after sign-off toggle
(ALT-N) Sysop on next toggle
UBDM.EXE is the Maintenance File and can be used from your
nightly event as:
C:
CD\DOOR\USERBD
UBDM
COPY C:\PCB\GEN\WELL + BDAYS T:\PCB\GEN\WELCOME
COPY C:\PCB\GEN\WELLg + BDAYS T:\PCB\GEN\WELCOMEg
Once you have changed into the Birthday Door's Directory
then we run the Maintenance program which creates the BDAYS File.
This file will have the current Users with a birthday today.
You may then use severy means to merge this file to your Welcome
screen or Logoff etc. Here we have our welcome screens labeled as
WELL & WELLG, then we merge them with the BDAYS file to WELCOME &
WELCOMEG.
If the UBDM has a number placed after it, from 1 to 99 it will
create a AGE file. Such as you might want to know all the users
over 18 for your adult conference or all users over 65 for Free
access. UBDM 18 will create a file called AGE18.DAT, in this
file will be the names of all the users over 18 to the day. If
no number between 1 to 99 is used then the UBDM file will only
create the BDAYS file. This will be the file with todays Birthdays.
REGISTER
Call The HOT (Heart Of Tennessee) BBS to register your program.
This DOOR is FREE, if left unchanged and unregistered. If you
would like to register this Door program with us, either $5 and
download it (Password for registered file required). For $10 we
Will call your BBS and upload it to you or mail it to you on a
disk. Please specify Disk Size.
The HOT (Heart Of Tennessee) BBS Node #1 --> (615) 890-8715
or :
The HOT BBS / USERBD
Larry Reeves
3235 Windsor Green Dr.
Murfreesboro, Tn. 37129
Thank You for Using our Door!
Upcoming Programs to include:
File Display Door. This program is great for a HELP DOOR,
TECH HELP DOOR, ANSII File View DOOR, NEWS DOOR, STORES DOOR
and can be set to play music for a MUSIC DOOR. Sysop
configurable options to suspend time while in a door.
THE LOTTO DOOR. This short game allows the users to gain
a bit more time while on the BBS.
BBS Review DOOR. Not just another BBS listings door. This
one add features not seen yet.
BBS Sysop Door. This is a game door that is close to real
life operations as a PCBoard Sysop. May solve the age old
problem of users wanting to start their own BBS. Gives them
a chance to see what it's like. The perils of maintaning a
BBS. More to come in this game door for would be Sysops.
FREQ Radio Frequency Door allows you to list and download
scanner and Ham Radio Frequencies. Current version is 2.1.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to thank the following persons for their part
in assisting and or encouraging the writing of this door.
Bill White and Neal McClain in their help with the sort routine.
The Lebonan Link BBS for beta testing this
door.