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Resume Flagged v1.4 Copyright (C) 1994, by Cutting Edge Online All rights reserved. Programming and Documentation by John Marx Cutting Edge Online (318) 537-7089 Voice 6372-B Kucinski Street (318) 537-7746 BBS Fort Polk, LA 71459 Hayes Optima 28.8k U.S.A. FidoNet: 1:3817/9 Resume Flagged v1.4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- System Requirements The requirements for using this PPE are as follows: a. PCBoard 15.21+ (This program was created with PPLC v3.0 and will not work with any version less than 15.21.) b. Enough space on your hard drive for installation of the program. c. It's not needed but placing this PPE and all your PPE's into different subdirectories is helpful. This allows you to more easily update or remove a PPE with it's accompanying files. Plus if you place more than one PPE in a directory you may run into the program trying to use a file it shouldn't. This is all that is needed to run this program. Resume Flagged v1.4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Overview Have you ever had a user accidently, always, you hang them up and they had files flagged for download? If not I sure would like to meet you! We all have had this happen to us and know that if we have files flagged and then call back we have to start all over again recreating the wheel. No longer! With the advent of "Resume Flag" you will no longer have your users griping that they lost carrier as they will be able to reflag their download list if they so desire or if they don't. Some of the highlights of this program are: ■ Ease of user for both SysOp and User ■ Preview the list of files that the user had flagged ■ 100% multilingual and we MEAN it! All external files are mutligual with you customation allowed on all of them. ■ All commands, colors, etc are 100% SysOp definable. ■ No NAG-me-to-death screens. This is a risk we're taking on our part to make the program available to you and we hope that if you use it you will support the shareware concept. Just follow the step by step instructions below and you will be running in no time. Resume Flagged v1.4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Installation 1. The first thing you will want to do is unZIP this file into it's own subdirectory. The reason for this is simple. Some filenames might contain the same name as another PPE and the two files most likely aren't exactly the same so problems will probally occur if you install all of your PPE's in the same directory. 2. You will probally want to make the following files suite your systems color specification so we suggest you use PCBEDIT and edit the following files to your taste. (NOTE: You don't need to do this step if you want to just start out and keep the default color scheme.) The files which you may wish to edit are: a. USERLOST -- This file is displayed to the user upon logon if the program detects that they have a flagged file list available. This asks whether they want to flag the new list (yes or no) or view it. 3. You will now need to edit a LOGIN file. This could be a file called LOGIN which for 99% of the population is. To edit this LOGIN file you will need to do the following: a. Load PCBSETUP.EXE b. Type B for File Locations c. Type D for New User/Logon/off Questionnaires d. Press the down arrow TWO times e. You should now be ontop of a file called D:\PCB\GEN\LOGIN or something similar. This is on the line that says: Name/Location of Login File f. Press F2 edit g. Add the following line !d:\pcb\ppe\resume\logon.ppe NOTE: The paths will most likely be different from my system to yours so your will need to make the appropriate changes. Also, take heed of the LOGIN at the end! This may be upper, lower case, or mixed case but must be there. Nothing will be displayed to the user. This is to set the user up for when they logoff the system. If this is not there your bulletin may not reflect what the user actually did while online during their stay on your system. 4. You will need to edit your logoff file in the same manner. This is in the same area as the login file. You would just add this for line (g) above. !d:\pcb\ppe\resume\logoff.ppe 4a. We've found that many systems don't have the same setup as ours. As such their systems don't call the logoff script file when they drop carrier as mine currently does. I don't know exactly why mine does and others don't, so I've come up with a fix to make certain others systems can use this program. If you want you may edit your PCBTEXT files so that line 215 contains the following: !d:\pcb\ppe\resume\logoff.ppe 5. This is an optional procedure, but if you would like it then please go ahead and install it. This will allow you to remove the files flagged for download for the user. This has become a very popular add-on. Instead of having to press d and answering no to the download the flagged files the user could type something like clear and enter and be done. To add this command you will need to do the following: a. Load PCBSETUP.EXE b. Type B for File Locations c. Type B for Configuration Files d. Press the down arrow until you're ontop of CMD.LST. e. Press F2 edit f. Add the following line Command Security What it Does ------- -------- -------------------------------- CLEAR 10 d:\pcb\ppe\resume\clear.ppe NOTE: The paths will most likely be different from my system to yours so your will need to make the appropriate changes. Also, take heed of the LOGIN at the end! This may be upper, lower case, or mixed case but must be there. Nothing will be displayed to the user. This is to set the user up for when they logoff the system. If this is not there your bulletin may not reflect what the user actually did while online during their stay on your system. That's all there is to it! Enjoy! Resume Flagged v1.4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Possible Error Codes There are several reasons for error codes. The main reason is something went wrong in the program. Even though all efforts have been made to remove any and all possible errors there still may be some configuration we haven't thought of. As such we've included extensive error checking in all of our programs to eliminate any and all possible errors. Errors will be shown to the caller on the screen explaining what went wrong and why if the program can determine without a doubt what it was. All errors will be logged to the callers log! This allows you to correct any problems that your users might not tell you. A lot of times when an error occurs the users like "that's nice." We feel that even as nice as it would be for the user to explain to the SysOp what they were doing when such errors occur, we know not to expect it so we've added this to the code as well. When it logs this information to the callers log it also logs the exact saying that it gave to the user. This gives you the most complete information we can. You may also wish to check out the "Frequently Asked Questions" at the end of this document for it may cover a question you are currently having about PCBoard and PPE's. Resume Flagged v1.4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contacting the Author I can be reached on either my BBS or through my home phone number at any time. If I'm not home and you receive the answering machine just leave your name and number with a short explanation, if you can, of the problem. I WILL call you back as soon as I can and if you gave me a description of your problem will more than likely have an answer for you when I do call you back. When you do call us with information about a bug in the program please give us the following information. This information will help us determine what the problem is: 1. Program name and version number. 2. Type and brand of computer, hard disk, plus any peripherals. 3. Version of DOS plus any TSRs or device drivers in use. 4. Explanation of your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files. 5. Description of what is in memory from the MEM command (DOS 4 and above users only) or a similar utility. 6. The exact problem you are having. Please be as specific as possible. Having a printout of the screen and/or being at your computer will be helpful. The Cutting Edge Online BBS operates 24 hours a day, is using a Hayes Optima 28.8k modem, PCBoard 15.2/10 and the number is (318) 537-7746. You will be able to download if you wish on the first call. There are no callback doors. We do use CALLER-ID for just this purpose. I personally don't like callback doors and am sure many others feel the same. We've recently upgraded the system bringing the system to 13.2 Gigs online with 5 CD-ROMs. I'm available also on the PCBoard Support BBS, Salt Air. I only call once a week, normally on Saturday so the replies won't be as quick as you may like. I'm also in the FidoNet PCBoard, PCB-Net conferences. Our FidoNet address is 1:3817/9. If you have a problem, suggestion, comment, download or just wish to talk please call and we will be more than glad to serve you. We're not happy until YOU are happy so let us know if we're doing something wrong. If we're doing it right tell your fellow PCBoard SysOps, if not tell US!