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                              Dementia Wall V1.12
Copyright 1993
Written by: Galen Barnes
Written for IBM PC's & compatibles(gee what a surprise)

WHAT IS DEMENTIA WALL:
  Dementia Wall is simple little program designed to allow your users to write
  short mini-messages in their choice of colors and special characters.  It
  may seem like a silly concept but it's a popular one, many of my users who
  wouldn't get caught dead in regular message areas use it regularly to say
  whatever is on their minds.  A program like this doesn't really even belong
  with other games, so install it from you main menu and have fun!!!!

DISCLAIMER:
  The author of Dementia Wall in no way warantees or claims liability for
  damage that this program may cause to your system.  The program was working
  when it left my system and should not do any damage to your system.  So, if
  your Monitor sprouts legs and goes running off with your toaster then
  that's your problem & you can't sue me for it.  So THERE!!!!

LEGAL JUNK:
  Dementia Wall and all it's files are the property of Galen Barnes and as such
  are protected by U.S. & International Copyright laws.  Dementia Wall may not
  be re-released in any modified form without written permission of the
  author.  The author gives permission to anyone to supply unmodified copies
  of this program in any medium you wish so long as you are not making a
  profit directly from it.  In other words, if you are selling it as a part of
  a shareware package or charging the user directly for the download(instead
  of charging for online time) then you must have direct written permission
  from the author.

UPGRADING:
 With this version there were some changes made in the data formats so if you
 have an older version run the UPGRADE program in your DWALL directory before
 attempting to run the new version.

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
  Dementia Wall is a game designed with simplicity of installation & use in
  mind.  Dementia Wall requires about 200K of disk space and less than 200K
  of memory to run, and is fully DesqView aware.  Dementia Wall watches files
  carefully and will work simultaneously in several windows at once as long as
  share is installed.  Dementia Wall does require that your system use a fossil
  driver such as X00 to function properly.  To install Dementia Wall simply
  decompress it into the directory you want it in & run it from the command
  line by entering DWALL Local.  At this point the program will ask you for
  your name, enter the same name that your BBS will be passing to the program
  when you run it so that you can use the sysop functions directly from the
  BBS.  Dementia Wall requires that you be the first person to run it, if you
  do not do this then the first player to use it will have sysop privledges and
  you'll have to reset it.  All it needs now is a standard DORINFOx.DEF file
  to run.  You can either place the DORINFOx.DEF file in the same directory as
  Dwall or you can include a command line parameter showing Dwall the
  directory you want it to look in for the DORINFO file.  The only other
  parameter you need to run it is the node number that it is running on.
  Below are some examples of typical ways to call Dementia Wall:

  Example:
  If your system creates Dorinfo2.def then you would call it like this:

  Dwall 2

  If you want Dwall to use Dorinfo1.Def in you BBS directory try this:

  Dwall 1 C:\BBS

  Should you want to run it locally from the command line simply enter:

  Dwall Local

  and the computer will ask you for all the info it needs to let you run it
  locally.

MAINTENANCE:
  DWALL keeps track of the date internally and requires no external
  maintenance.  Everything is done automatically each night.  However, you may
  want to delete INUSE.DAT periodically(when nobody is online) to assure that
  DWALL's self maintenance continues to run properly.

USING DEMENTIA WALL:
  This program should be pretty easy to use and quite straight-forward in it's
  presentation.  Still, questions are bound to pop up so I thought I'd include
  a complete set of instructions to help answer those questions.

  Main Menu:
    N - New Postings - This will display a list of the postings since the
          user's last logon.
    R - Read All the Posts - This allows the user to read all the postings
          starting with any one they choose.
    W - Write Something - When chosen this will give the user a prompt
          allowing them to write some grafitti.  They will be able to write
          between 1 and 10 lines depending on the sysops setup(see sysop
          options for more info).  These lines can be edited using the
          standard commands offered in most full-page editors.  Alternately a
          user can press Ctrl-N and turn his Num-Lock on and be able to use
          his numeric keypad to move the cursor around, to enter numbeers
          under this they will have to press Ctrl-N again.  To Change
          Foreground and Background colors and display special characters,
          they need only press the keys indicated by the instructions at the
          top of their screen.  A user does not have to fill all the lines
          offered by Dementia Wall, if they press return at the beginning of
          any line the computer will assume that they have completed entering
          their grafitti.
    D - Define Keys & Colors - Choosing this will give the user a list of the
          keys that they use to select Foreground & Background Colors and the
          key to used to add Special Characters to their Posts.  Users may
          select any standard(non-function & non-control) key as a control
          key.  Caution should be taken as the system will allow ANY standard
          key.  Another function of this option is to allow users to set
          default foreground and background colors for posts they make.
    C - Customize Your Name - This allows a user to customize the name that is
          displayed with their posts.  Their name can be edited in the same
          manner as as a message and Colors and Special characters are
          allowed.
    Q - Quit Dementia Wall - Pretty self-explanatory.
    S - Sysop Options - This allows the sysop to edit the setup, posts, and
          users on Dementia Wall.  As the sysop you get quite a bit of power
          to do this, your options are:

          E - Edit Users - Choosing this will pop up a window displaying all
                the stats of any user and allow you to edit them as necessary.
                When you first start editing the system will list the first
                user, from here you can use the arrow keys or the . and ,
                keys to move back and forth through the userlist, you may
                also choose a user by manually entering the number of the user
                you want.  There are(of course) a few options available to you
                at this point, they are:

                N - Name Search - This allows you to enter a name(or partial
                      name) to search the userlist for.  The name search will
                      find the first user that matches the text you've asked
                      to search for, it will then ask you if this is the user
                      you want, if you answer no the computer will continue
                      the search until you answer yess or run out of users.
                D - Delete a User - This will delete the current user from the
                      userlist, purging all messages they have entered in the
                      process.
                ENTER - Edit the User - Pressing ENTER will move the cursor to
                      the data about the current user, you may move up and
                      down through it by using the arrow keys or the + and -
                      keys.  To change an item of the users data press enter
                      and the computer will let you change it, most of this is
                      pretty self-explanatory but two options aren't.  The
                      first is LastOn, if you ever need to change this make
                      sure that you enter the date in the EXACT same format as
                      is displayed.  The other is Access, there are 4
                      different access levels and they are pretty obvious,
                      SYSOP allows access to Everything, Read/Write is the
                      normal access level, Read Only allows the user to only
                      read posts and not create them.  Finally, Twit revokes a
                      users privledge to use Dementia wall.  When you've
                      finished editing the user press ESC and you'll be
                      returned to the user selection options.
                ESC - Return to Sysop Menu - Self Explanatory.

          D - Delete offensive postings - This gives you a menu much like the
                User Editor, you may use it to flip through the posts and
                delete posts which you find offensive, there are 3 options you
                have once you decide to delete a post, they are:

                D - Delete Post - Kills the message.
                R - Delete and Read/Only - Kills the message and sets the
                      access level of the person responsible to Read/Only.
                T - Delete and Twit - Kills the message and Twit the author.

                When you have finished your deletions press ESC to return to
                the Sysop Menu.

          L - Lines Per Post - This allows you to set the maximum number of
                lines a user may have in a post, the minimum setting is 1 and
                the maximum is 10.
          M - Maximum Postings - This allows you to set the maximum number of
                posts your system collect before beginning nightly deletions.
                The minimum setting is 1 and the maximum is 1000.
          A - Allow Anonymous Posts - If you set this to NO the system will
                not allow users to post anonymously, a setting of YES(default)
                means that anonymous posts are allowed.
          V - View Real Names - A setting of YES will cause the system to
                display the Real names of users as well as their Customized
                name to the Sysop when he's reading posts.
          W - Wipe the Wall Clean - This will remove all the grafitti from the
                wall and start you with a clean wall.
          Q - Quit - Returns you to the Main Menu

  That should just about do it, if you have any further questions you can
  always contact me with them.


REGISTRATION:
  Well, here's the moment we've all been waiting for, the moment I start
  begging for cash.  Well, I won't beg much(or for much), but your
  registration fees do help me to create new and better products for you and
  your users so, please send your $10 registration fee to:

                        Dementia Software
                        P.O. Box 26313
                        Colorado Springs, CO 80936

  Please include a slip of paper including your name(as it appears in your
  userlist), your address(So I can get your registration back to you), and the
  game you're registering.  Upon reciept of your payment I will rush you your
  registration code.  Should you loose your code replacement copies can be
  obtained for $1 each by simply sending me a request for a replacement
  code(If you aren't registered don't bother requesting one it won't work).

SUPPORT:
  Should you have troubles or discover bugs in Dementia Wall, please contact
  me.  Have fun, and should you need to contact me you can send
  questions/comments/etc. to:

                        Galen Barnes
                        Operation Insanity
                        Fidonet 1:128/73.0
                        P.O. Box 26313
                        Colorado Springs, CO 80936
                        BBS Phone: [phone]
                        Home Phone: [phone]

Finally, if you are interested, there is a Dementia Software echo available
from this system for users and others to talk about/ask questions about
Products made by Dementia Software.  Contact me for details.  GB