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Read or Qwk PPE Documentation?
Anyway, the same thing goes here. Use this program at your own risk. I do not
guarantee this program will work on your system at all, all I guarantee is that
all these dumb files will take up approximately 5k of your hard drive space.
Description
~~~~~~~~~~~
This PPE came to be when I saw a user having to say 'NO' to reading his mail
cause all he wanted to do was to download it. Well, there were a few
problems with the version I first released.
1) It would force the user to hit enter twice if the option was 'No'.
2) It would still use PCBoards routines to read the messages, hence the
message pointers would not be set. (why you guys do it that way?)
3) It was pretty darn ugly!
So here's what you've got now. A ppe that will prompt the user to 'Read Your
Mail, Read ALL mail, Download a QWK packet with the internal QWK', or, if the
security is high enough, don't bother with any of it! The PPE will no longer
use the internal read methods of PCBoard. It will now stuff 'R;Y;A;S', 'R;A',
and 'QWK;D'. This allows it to set the message pointers so the user won't
have to read the message 1.2mil times! I've also fixed the problem with the
(N) showing up after the user had already hit 'No'.
Hope you like it as much as I do!
Installation
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Go into MKPCBTXT and tell it the location and name of your PCBTEXT.??? file.
Then push F3 and put 662 in the little box provided for you.
It will take you to record # 662. There you will need to put something like
'!c:\pcb\ppe\rq.ppe' and that's it.. make sure you don't forget the '!' or
else all you'll get is 'PCBoard Programming Language Executable 2.00',
and make sure you have the right path or else all you'll get is '? (N)'..
I know what I'm talking about, I made both mistakes! <g>
And if you force your readers to read their mail (ahhem.. Bill M, this part
is for you!), then you will need to do the same thing to record #664.
Then you will need to go edit the config file, which for now is the best I
can do. Shortly there will be a version that will take the info right from
PCBoard.. but for now, I have no idea how to do check if the sysop wants that
particular security level forced to read mail. Anyway, stay tuned!
Programmers
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If you'd like the source feel free to leave me (Mauricio Pineda) a message
on Salt Air. Although these are simple PPE's, I do not come up with them,
and write them in a matter of seconds (unlike some people seem to believe!).
It does take me time, and with my limited knowledge, it is sometimes
frustrating. In any case, if you'd like a copy of the source, leave me a
message on Salt Air, or call my board at (415)286-0144.
Unless of course your name has the initials DM and you live in Washington.
Support?
~~~~~~~~
Oh yeah, if you need to get a hold of me for any reason other than to sue me
you can call me at Body Images BBS (415) 286-0144.
Final Note
~~~~~~~~~~
This PPE will also not work properly unless you have the QWK option fully
cofigured on your system. If it's not configured, this PPE will not do it
for you. Sorry!
Thanks
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Special thanks go to Bill Marcy who constantly continues to provide me
with great PPE writting lessons.