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Version 1.55
(C) 1996 by Jason Raphael
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─═─ Welcome to RA-Pager v1.55! ─═─
RA-Pager v1.55 was programmed and designed by Jason Raphael, February 1996.
Completed at 2:48pm, 03-03-96.
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Table of Contents
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Table of Contents........1
Information..............2
Legal Information........3
Archive Contents.........4
Installation.............5
RA-Pager Log.............6
SysOp Keys...............7
Registration.............8
Credits..................9
Support..................10
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Information
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RA-Pager is a RemoteAccess questionnaire (q-a) script. This means that
it will load extremely fast from RA, and you can still see the RA status
bar and use all RA SysOp keys while in the program. RA-Pager gives you
many advantages over RA's standard SysOp pager. Some of the features
are:
- "Do you want to page SysOp?" prompt before paging..
- Full logging of all activity, page reasons, etc to a separate log
(One thing I always disliked about RA's internal paging is the
lack of logging of reasons, and the necessity of scanning through
your entire RA.LOG to find when someone paged)..
- Full lightbar support of all prompts..
- Pressing enter on the chat reason prompt won't simply exit as RA's
internal pager does. Instead, the user is displayed a message
saying to please enter a reason, or type QUIT to exit..
- Moving bars while SysOp is being paged so the user knows that
something is happening..
- Allows you to continue using RA's chatter (which many people prefer
over a 3rd-party chatter) with a much improved interface..
- ...And much more!
- Notice on modifications of questionnaire:
You may modify the text in this questionnaire (such as the paging
reason asking string, etc). I only have one small requirement about
this: You must leave the blue status bar at the top of every screen (as
it is now) with the program name on it, the exact way it is by default.
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Legal Information
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Neither myself (Jason Raphael) nor Dream Scape BBS can be held
responsible for any damage this program may cause on your system. It
HAS been thoroughly tested on my system as well as other systems, and to
the best of my knowledge works fine. After all, it is only an RA
questionnaire. <grin> :) If you DO for some reason encounter any
problems with it, however, neither of the above mentioned parties take
any responsibility for it.
You are encouraged to distribute RA-Pager, as long as it is in its
original archive with all files included and NOT modified in any way.
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Archive Contents
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The RA-Pager archive (PAGEV155.ZIP) should contain the following files:
DONATE.FRM Donation form
FILE_ID.DIZ Program identification
PAGEV155.Q-A Main Q-A file
RA-PAGER.BAT Batch file used by RA-Pager
RA-PAGER.DOC RA-Pager documentation (you're reading it!)
RAPSAV10.ZIP RAPSA v1.0, a handy utility I wrote to adjust RA's
paging status from the DOS prompt
README.1ST Important installation information
WHATSNEW.155 Information on new features in versions
The following file will be created after RA-Pager is executed:
PAGE.LOG RA-Pager logfile
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Installation
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You *MUST* rename PAGEV155.Q-A to PAGE.Q-A. This will also be helpful
so that you don't have to adjust any menus due to new filenames in any
future/previous versions.
Also, you must have an ANSI driver loaded (such as ANSI.SYS).
1) Copy PAGE.Q-A to your RemoteAccess questionnaire directory.
2) Copy RA-PAGER.BAT to a directory that is in your PATH statement
(ex: C:\DOS). If you have your RemoteAccess system directory in your
PATH statement (in your autoexec.bat file), then you can just move
it to that directory.
IMPORTANT: RA-Pager uses your RemoteAccess environment variable to
locate your RA system directory. You *MUST* have the RA environment
variable set, and RA-PAGER.BAT *MUST* reside in a directory that is
in your PATH statement, or RA-Pager will not operate correctly.
3) In RACONFIG -> Options -> Paging, make sure you have "Ask why"
set to No, and "SysOp msgs" set to 0 (disabled). RA-Pager
incorporates these features, so if you have RemoteAccess using
them as well, the user will be prompted twice for both items.
4) Add the option in your menus:
∙ Setting up RA-Pager v1.55 in a RemoteAccess menu
a) Enter RACONFIG -> Menu editor
b) Go to the menu that you wish to have an option to page the system
operator on. If you're running a registered version of RA, you may
wish to put this on your GLOBALRA.MNU so that it can be executed
from any menu on your BBS.
c) Make a new menu entry as follows:
Action Execute a questionnaire (Type 12)
Display ; <-- Your display may vary
OptData PAGE <-- Make sure you rename PAGEV155.Q-A to PAGE.Q-A!
HotKey P <-- Your hotkey may vary
AutoExec No
Colour Colour example
MinSec 0 TimeUsed 0 FlatCost 0
MaxSec 0 TimeLeft 0 TimeCost 0
A flags -------- Age 0 Terminal ANSI RIP
B flags -------- MinSpeed 0 Nodes
C flags -------- MaxSpeed 0 Groups
D flags -------- Credit 0 DayTimes
At this point in time, RA-Pager does not support ASCII. If your system
supports ASCII callers, you'll have to set up a regular RA page menu
option for them to use. This should be very easy to do - As in the
above example, set the "Terminal" setting for RA-Pager to ANSI and RIP
only. Then, create another menu option _after_ the option for RA-Pager.
Make the action on this option a type 11 (page system operator for chat).
Now, all ANSI/RIP callers will go to RA-Pager, and all ASCII callers will
just get the internal RA pager.
If there is enough demand, RA-Pager could support ASCII in a future
release.
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RA-Pager Log
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RA-Pager will create a logfile of all activity. Who entered the program
and when will be logged, as well as their paging reason and if they left
a message or not (if they chatted with you, that will be logged also -
see next section for more information). Here are two examples of how
the logfile will look after certain actions have taken place:
RA-Pager executed by Jason Raphael [Jammer] on node 2 (02-08-96, 16:37).
- Reason: Testing RA-Pager v1.55!
- Left a message: Yes
RA-Pager executed by Jason Raphael [Jammer] on node 2 (02-08-96, 16:58).
- Reason: Example of logfile after SysOp has chatted
- Left a message: [Chatted with SysOp]
The RA-Pager logfile will be created in your RA system directory with
the filename PAGE.LOG.
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SysOp Keys
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There is only one major SysOp key in RA-Pager, and it only works in one
place. After you've chatted with a user, you would normally press ESCape
once to end chat. One minor change: Press ESCape _twice_ to end chat.
This will cause the "Leave a message" prompt to abort and clear right
away, as well as log that you chatted with the user.
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Registration
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You are not required to pay any kind of fee to use this program. RA-Pager
has greatly progressed since the time I began writing it (it was formerly
not publicly released). Over all the versions, I've put a lot of my time
into making it look just right, fixing every little detail, etc. There
are no special features or extras you get for sending a donation, but I'm
definitely more likely to release future versions and other q-a programs
if I were to receive some donations. I suggest a small donation of $5.
Please see DONATE.FRM for donation information. Even if you choose not
to donate, if you enjoy the program, I'd really appreciate receiving
some kind of postcard or letter from you. My mailing address is at
the end of this document.
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Credits
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As mentioned above, the development of RA-Pager has come a very long
way since the first version written. There are some people that I'd
like to thank for their help, without which RA-Pager wouldn't be where
it is today (in no particular order):
- Brad Meyer, the RA-Pager "beta tester," for his support, ideas,
and testing of RA-Pager since version 1.0..
- Andrew Milner - If it weren't for him, RemoteAccess wouldn't be
here, and this program would be useless..
- Eric Staufer, who inspired me to finally release this program
publicly.
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Support
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You can always obtain the latest version of RA-Pager by either:
∙ FREQing magicname RA-PAGER from Dream Scape BBS, 1:284/22, any time
but ZMH up to 28.8 bps..
∙ Logging on to Dream Scape BBS, 417-883-4035.
If you're having any problems with RA-Pager v1.55, if you have a
suggestion for a future version, or need to contact me for some other
reason, there are several ways you can do so:
- Send FidoNet netmail: 1:284/22
- Logon to Dream Scape BBS: (417) 883-4035
- Send internet e-mail: jason.raphael@c-matrix.springfield.mo.us
- Post a message to me in the RA_UTIL FidoNet echo
- Send me mail via U.S. Postal service:
Dream Scape BBS
1730 East Republic Road A-123
Springfield, MO 65804-7502