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Date: 6-27-92 v1.0 - Original release
Date: 7-9-92 v1.1 - Added code change to display "searching" to user
Date: 7-22-92 v1.2 - Disabled ability to search/match to SysOp secret name
Date: 7-29-92 v1.3 - Fix for personal uploads
Date: 3-02-93 v1.3 - Doc update to reflect original author. Thank you to
Chris Steiner for bringing this to my attention.
Have you ever been on a BBS and wanted to send a message to someone and
forgot or didn't know how to spell their name? This merge gives a user
the ability to enter a search string as short as 2 characters whereby all
names which contain this search string will be displayed. The user will be
prompted with each name whether this is the person he/she wishes to send a
message to.
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July 9th, 1992
The modification now notifies the user that it is "searching for a match"
so that the user does not think the program has halted when searching
large users files.
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July 22, 1992
Till now, the mod had the ability to make a match to the SysOps Secret Name!
This was brought to my attention by another SysOp who feared a hacker might
use this ability to find out the name. RBBS itself allowed a match to the
secret name which could allow a user to verify that the name is being used on
the BBS. Both of these bugs have now been eliminated. A user can not send
a message to the SysOps secret name, and the name will not appear as one of
the match choices if it matches the search string.
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July 29, 1992
The mod did not set the file receivers record number when doing personal
uploads. This led to the receiver not being notified that there was new files
waiting for him/her. This has now been fixed so you can search for a users
name doing personal uploads in the same manner as entering messages.
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This merge was originally written by Howard Blake (for the Maple Street code)
who made the code "PUBLIC DOMAIN" within the RBBS-Net. Further modifications
were requried to fix some minor problems in execution of the code. In addition
to searching the users file for a string and displaying users names which
contain the string, I have added the ability to abort the search when quiried
and disabled the entering of a blank space as the first character of the search
string. This gives the user the ability to abort as each name is shown. Prior
to this change, the only way to abort was to answer "yes" (to send a message to
the person shown) and then abort the message.
As with all my modifications, I recommend that you merge this code in by hand
if you have installed any merges which have accessed the same line numbers as
this merge. If you have not installed any such merge, then you can use
Ken Goosens BLED v2.2 to install this merge. A batch file is included to
perform this task for you. There are no modifications of the RBBS-VAR file
for this merge.
Files included are:
RSB2PEEK.MRG - mod file for RBBSSUB2.BAS
PEEK174.DOC - this document
PEEK174.BAT - batch file to use BLED v2.2
The original code for this mod was written by Harold Blake. Thanks Harold, for
all your effort.
Richie Molinelli Gary Glueckert
The Small Time BBS The SUNY BBS
Runnin RBBS v17.4/STUNY Runnin RBBS v17.4/STUNY
1200 thru 14400 bps 1200 thru 9600 (Compucom)
(516) 579-7929 (516) 420-0818
WARRANTY AND DISCLAIMER:
Simple. None. Narda. Zip. Nothing. I am not responsible for any
damage that occurs by using this merge nor am I responsible for any good that
occurs from using this merge. I'm just plain not responsible. My mother has
been telling me that since I was a kid.
REGISTRATION:
None required for non-comercial use. If this merge is to be used on a
commercial BBS, then please contact me at either the address listed below or
by calling my BBS.
If you are the author of a program, please consider u/l a registered copy of
your program to my BBS.
If you are the author of a merge, please consider u/l a copy of your merge to
my BBS
If you are neither of the above, please consider sending me a postcard to the
address listed below telling me how you love/hate/don't care about the merge.
I happen to like postcards.
Richie Molinelli
P.O. Box 961
Levittown, NY 11756