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04/10/96 [v5.2] If a caller, while answering the questionnaire, chose the "+" option ("I don't care which one") the program was not marking all choices but rather picking up the choice from teh self- description response. A MAJOR modification to the MMAKER.CFG !!! We will no longer support the ability to assign TIME/GAMES to individual security levels. We felt that the BBS software on the market today handles that adequately and that we could use the extra program code space for other enhancements. To this end you MUST DELETE LINES 10-19 (000=00/00) from the MMAKER.CFG file. Failure to do this may result in unpredictable results! A NEW option has been added to the CFG file to control whether or not you wish to have the door LOG callers (ON/OFF) to a USAGE file. A separate file is created for each Node. A NEW option has been added to the MMAKER.CFG file to controi whether the Sysop wants to validate what the caller enters in response to the COUNTRY question. The validation will be made against a NEW file called MMCNTRY.DAT TWO (2) NEW OPTIONAL files have been added. These 2 files will contain the valid STATE codes (MMSTATE.DAT) and valid COUNTRY codes (MMCNTRY.DAT). There have been many questions posed relative to why options 4 and 5, on the main menu comes up blank for some and not for others. The reason is that the caller did not answer the questionnaire(s). Effective with this release, options 4 and 5 will not come up blank. However, should a caller not answer the questionnaire(s) and then chosse those options they will be shown a message explaining why they can not use the option. The same will apply when a caller is trying to send a message and has not answered the questionnaire(s). When entering Personal information, if your entry was invalid the program cycled you back to re-enter the information but the prior information was not erased making it somewhat confusing. MMEXCH: An EXPORT would be prematurely terminated (nothing exported) if it encountered a Profile with a picture attachment specified AND the picture file could not be found in the designated directory. The screen of valid commandline options, displayed when the command line entries are invlaid, has been updated to include the ALLMINE option. This version now incorporates a database PURGE. 2 new options have been added to the MMEXCH.CFG file; one asks for the purge criteria for the PROFILES and the other asks for the purge criteria for the MESSAGES. This will eliminate you having to run a separate MMAINT purge after importing or exporting. The new entries must be INSERTED in the MMEXCH.CFG file AFTER the 4th entry !!!! Changed the screen display to accomodate the NEW purge option. MMAINT: When purging user profiles, picture files (if attached) were not being deleted. They will now be purged as well. 11/08/95 [v5.1] MMEXCH: was exporting a picture (if one was attached) each time a profile was exported. MMEXCH will now only export a picture IF it is a NEW profile or if the Sysop makes a change to the Picture field of the user profile maintenance (MMAINT). MMAKER: "MUST MATCH" is now an option, configurable via the MMAKER.CFG file entry. You can now choose to ask the "MUST MATCH" question, after each question or NOT. MMAKER: will not ask the "MUST MATCH" question if the caller chose "I don't care" /since the end result is the same. MMEXCH: A new option has been added to the MMEXCH.CFG file to allow the Sysop to have the exported files ZIPped into ONE file. The MMEXCH.CFG file, line 3 (not counting the comment lines) now relates to the ZIP file option and a NEW field has been added to the line(s) that defines each Node/Hub and whether or not to (H)old, (C)rash, etc. Column 21 entry will dictate to what to do with the ZIPed file. (REFER TO SAMPLE MMEXCH.CFG file) 10/14/95 [v5.0] Prior to this version only profiles that had been changed were being exported (if you were a participant in an exchange). By doing this we thought it would help cut down the size of the export files being transferred between BBS'. Over time we have come to realize that by doing it this way the callers were not aware of the TRUE 'last date accessed' for profiles they were reviewing. With that said, this version will now export a user profile when the caller accesses the MMAKER Door. Fixed an alignment problem relating to the entering of the users sex... the entry position was off by 2 spaces. In the Message Center options 3 and 5 performed the same function IF you were the Sysop. Option 3 is used to show all the messages a caller had left. If the SYsop was using this option it would show ALL messages instead of just the ones he/she left. In the Message Center, when a caller accessed option 3 to read messages THEY had left, we would compare the caller's alias to the message alias. We neglected to check that the BBS name in the Message was the same as the BBS name being used to access the message. Without this added check, caller's with the same Alias could read each others messages, using option 3. If you are participating in an MMAKER exchange, you will now be REQUIRED to have an MMEXCH.CFG file resident in the MMAKER directory. This file will define (a) the location of your INBOUND directory (where any incomming exchange files will be located), (b) the location of the OUTBOUND directory (where any outgoing files will be located), (c) whether you will be using a Front-End mailer to transfer files to your HUB or to your NODES. If there were duplicate Alias' in the database, and the caller sent a message to one of them, the TO field of the message was coming up with a numeric value (1, 2 3, etc). It should now be fixed. In prior versions you were asked to supply ONE question number that would be used as a MUST MATCH (if the matched profile did NOT match your answer the profile would be bypassed).... with this version the caller will be asked this question for each question in the questionaire. Thus the caller will be able to choose as many MUST MATCH questions as they wish. We would suggest that you make the callers aware of this new feature and the removal of the singular option on the MATCH menu. Added the same MUST MATCH capability to the caller that fills out the questionaire offline. Be sure that you let the callers know of this new feature. Eliminated line 45 from the MMAKER.TXT file Add lines 68 and 69 to the MAKER.TXT file MMTXTMOD.EXE changed to handle the 2 new & 1 deleted lines in MMAKER.TXT MMAINT, option 13, has been changed to allow the Sysop to DELETE ALL users and messages in the MMAKER database, that are NOT members of the current BBS. The original intent of option 13 will remain as well (ie: delete users from certain BBS'). There have been a number of reports of picture files being exported that were previously exported. We believe we have found what may have caused that to happen. Bear in mind that ALL pictures will be exported IF you use the ALLMINE or ALL option with MMEXCH. Duplicate user profiles were being imported IF you were using the BETA MMEXCH. Somewhere along the way this little bug was introduced into the Beta. If you will run the MMAINT programm, option 16, you will remove the duplicates! Duplicate Messages were being imported. This BUG was introduced during the BETA cycle. If you have been running the BETA version we would suggest that you run the NEW MMaint option (#19) to duplicate check the message database and follow instructions on the screen to permamnently delete the duplicates. Added a NEW option to the MMAINT program to check for and mark all duplicate messages found. 02/20/95 [v4.9] MMTXTMOD was counting the special color codes as as part of the text line length when in fact it should not have. If the Download option in the CFG file was set to NO, option 8 and 9 on the main menu was NOT being blanked out. One of the most frequently requested change is the ability to comment the CFG file so that one does not have to jump back and forth between the CFG file and the DOC file to know what each entry means. With this version we introduce the ability to COMMENT the CFG file (a semicolon[;] in the first position of a line will signal the program to consider it a comment line). Comment lines can NOT be used in the CFG file prior to the line preceeding the registration number. Added a new option to the CFG file to control the default COUNTRY CODE used when entering or changing personal INFO or entering Match Criteria. Maximum 3 characters. When the MatchMaker Exchange program (MMEXCH) is exited it will produce an ErrorLevel based on which files were created. This should be if some help in negotiating a BATCH file. We have received a number of reports of messages not being exported from the database during an Exchange process. We have found a 'bug' in the MMAKER program that marked a new message as having been exported under a number of circumstances. We would suggest that if you are participating in an Echange, that you run the MMAINT program and CLEAR the Export Flags of the messages in your database. This will cause the messages to re-exported. When modifying text, using MMTXTMOD, if you used the backspace key during that input, the program was not taking that into consideration when calculating the line length. For example, if you had entered the maximum number of characters for that line, then you backspaced, it would allow the backspace but not allow any more characters to be input. The MMEXCH.LOG was not reflecting the correct number of records bypassed during an IMPORT. When you export a picture for the first time, MMEXCH will place the picture file date in the user record. This date will be used by MMEXCH, on all subsequent user profile exports, to determine whether or not the picture should be exported. If a caller updates their profile, but the picture file date matches the date in the user record, the picture will NOT be exported. 02/20 Added an option to the MMAINT menu to allow the Sysop to mark all Pictures as having been exported or to force the export of all Pictures. In addition the Sysop can edit an individual record and mark the Picture as having been exported or force the Picture export. When a new user logs into MMAKER and enters an Alias that already exists on another BBS (assuming participation in the MMAKER Exchange) the caller was either be presented with an "You already have an Alias" or an error 63 after completing the questionaire. Added a new choice to the 'Sex' selection. In addition to Male and Female you can now use Couple. When importing messages via the MMEXCH program, the only messages that will be imported to a NON-HUB will be messages addressed to users of the BBS doing the importing. Prior to this all messages were being imported. Added more diplayable information to the User Listing (option # 6)... will display the time of last logon AND the Sexual Preference under the P in heading. 02/21 After doing a match (option 4) and then reviewing the matches via option 5 and returning to the main menu prior to looking at all the matches, the program would lose track of the caller's information and instead show the personal information of the last match you reviewed. 12/12/94 [v4.8] When deleting a message the program returned an Error 52. Our testing shows that the message being deleted was actually deleted, and that the error occured when the program attempted to read other messages that were present. In the MMAINT program, when deleting all users associated with a particular BBS (option 13), you will have to enter the BBS name EXACTLY as it appears in the database. Prior versions converted the BBS name to all uppercase thus causing ALL matches on that BBS to be deleted. Dramatically increased the USERS re-indexing speed in MMAINT Dramatically increased the MESSAGE re-indexing speed in MMAINT Dramatically increased the USERS re-indexing speed in MMEXCH Improved the USERS import speed in MMEXCH A NEW command line option has been added to MMEXCH. In addtion to the ALL or NEW we have added ALLMINE. When used this option will EXPORT ALL profiles/pictures and messages that were generated on the current BBS. This should be useful to everyone as it will allow the HUB to bring his/her database up to date by (1) deleting all records for the individual BBS and (2) requesting individual BBS' to send only their profiles. MMAINT AUDIT function was not recording the Number of messages There was a report that when exchanging files, and the alias AND logon name were the same on 2 or more BBS' the incoming user profile would overlay the wrong profile... I believe this has been fixed. The MMAKER message option was SUPPOSED to let the caller know if there were duplicates of the Alias in the database, in which case the caller would be able to make a choice based on BBS name and location. Should now work as it was designed to... If there were duplicate Alias' in the database (but from different BBS'), MMAKER was showing any messages addressed to that Alias, to both callers with the same Alias. Prior versions bypassed any database records that matched the caller's Alias when doing a MATCH. The program will now only bypasss your Alias and not a like Alias from another BBS. When a user record was being deleted (either an individual deletion or one based on the BBS being deleted) the program was NOT deleting any attached PICTURE files. 'Message Waiting' message was being displayed twice; once when you first logged on (when Door welcomed you back) and then again on the Main Menu. It will now only be displayed on the Main Menu. The program was not clearing out the 3-line self description a new user fills out. If the caller only used 2 of the 3 lines, the 3rd line contained another callers database information. The 3 lines will be cleared before asking for information. Added a new Match Criteria. You will now have the choice of limiting your match to callers from the BBS you are accessing or from All BBS' Added a new feature for those that wish to present the questionaires in differnt languages. If you wish the caller to choose a language other than English, then you must create a file called MMQLANG.DAT (see DOCS). If you will only have the questionaires in English, then there is no need to create this file. If the file is present the program will display it and ask the caller to choose a language. Please note that this only applies to the questionaires at the present time. See DOCS for more information. For HUBS that wish to reject certain BBSnames from being imported when doing a Match Maker exchange, we have added a new file to be used to record the BBS' name. This file will only be read by MMEXCH and you must be a HUB. See DOCs for more information. When purging users (MMAINT option # 4), the delete flag was not being set for those being deleted. Without the flag being set, the program would not know which ones were to be deleted. In MMAINT, option 13, the program was only deleting users IF the BBS names were ALL Uppercase. MMEXCH will no longer Export OR Import any records where the caller has not answered the questionaire or has taken the questionaire defaults. Under certain circumstances, when using MMEXCH, a duplicate entry was being allowed into the user database. You can now FORCE the use of the caller's BBS logon Alias in the Door. See the DOC file (CFG file explanation... Door.SYS sub-option) Removed the restriction that would not allow unregistered versions of the Door to access the MMAINT user re-index option. If you tried to run the MMAINT Audit option and there were no records in the database, the program would hang. Added a new option ot the MMAINT program that will VALIDATE the MatchMaker PICTURE files existance. When picture files can not be verified, pertinent information will be written to a report file called MMVERIFY.RPT. The Sysop will then be able to take whatever action he/she desires. MMAINT Duplicate check option, now MUCH faster!!! Processing time decreased for some of the options in MMAINT If you limited the number of times a caller could enter the door on any given day (game limit entry in the CFG file), the program, under certain circumstances, would only allow 1 less entry than the number you defined in the CFG file. When doing a match, option 4, the program displays the number of records being searched as well as the total number of records in the file. Somewhere along the way the number of records in the file was not being picked up correctly and the program was displaying a zero (ie: 55 of 0). When using Option 4 (Make-A-Match) MMAKER will now *remember* the LAST match criteria used during the LAST use of MMAKER. All the caller will have to do is press enter to any of the questions to use the LAST entry they made for that question. **NOTE** YOU MUST RUN MMAINT (option 17) ONCE!!! One of the match crtieria (in option #4, MMAKER) combined STATE and COUNTRY as one. In this version STATE and COUNTRY will become SEPARATE match criteria. The default "Minimum Age", used when making a match (MMAKER option #4), has been changed to 18. Added a new option to the CFG file. This option, if set to Y, will force validation of STATE abreviations. MMAINT was not creating all the questionaire files when you tried to use a language other than English. 11/08 The Welcome file, MMWELCOM is now multi-language capable. If you are currently using a WELCOME file, you MUST rename it to MMWELCOM.E... and read the DOCs for information on how to adapt the MMWELCOM file to multiple languages. The text file you can insert into a downloaded questionaire file, MMDLTEXT, is now multi-language capable. If you are currently using a text file, you MUST rename it to MMDLTEXT.E... and read the DOCs for information on how to adapt the MMDLTEXT file to multiple languages. If you have set the CFG option that forces the use of the Logonname or alias used on the BBS, the user will no longer be required to respond Y or N to the "Is this correct.." message. All messages read by the caller will be marked as READ, along with date read. If you attempted to change the LogonName of an existing caller's record, MMAINT would not allow it if the new name duplicated an entry in the database. This would have been correct if the new LogonName had been for the same BBS but it was being rejected for ANY duplication regardless if from another BBS. If using the TRIBBS.SYS system file, the door always presented the opening screen in black and white. Will now be presented in color. The Door knows that the caller is the Sysop, if the caller is record #1 in the BBS' user database. The BBS software passes that record number to the door via the system file. Some BBS software does not pass the actual record number but passes a relative number (ie: record #1 is passed as record #0). If the number being passsed is 0, the Door will not know it is the Sysop calling. We will now recognize the caller as the Sysop if their record number is 0 or 1. When caller responded to a message sent by another caller, the response was never sent. When importing and indexing LARGE numbers of messages the MMEXCH program produced an OUT OF STRING SPACE error. After reading a message addressed to you, and you do not wish to delete it, MMAKER was not letting you know that you had messages waiting (the ones you did not delete) on your subsequent calls. Hopefully this version will fix this.. if not please let me know! The MMexch log was not recording the PICTURE filenames being exported. With this change all exported Picture files will be recorded. 08/19/94 [v4.7] There have been a number of problems reported that some of your users were not able to log into the Door. I have been able to track the problem(s) back to a change we put into the program to force the deletion of a record if it was deleted on one of the BBS' in a network. What we found was that many of the user records were being FLAGGED as deleted, erroneously. You did not lose any records, they were just flagged as being deleted. If you use the UNDELETE option on the MMAINT menu you will be able to recover ALL of the 'deleted' records. We will have to figure out a better way of ensuring that a user deleted on one BBS, will be deleted on all other BBS' in the network. In addition, based on your feedback, we have also removed the restriction that only the Sysop of the originating BBS would be able to Delete or modify a user record. **************************** MMAKER: Under certain circumstances, if a caller uses an Alias that duplicates another Alias in the database, but is not from the same BBS, the questions presented to the new user appear to already have been answered. The 'problem' should now be fixed.. When a caller requested to review a particular user's profile AND there was more than one user with that particular Alias, MatchMaker would only show the caller the first match it found in the database. The caller will now be shown all those that match, one after another. The caller may terminate the display of those they do not wish to look at by replying "E" at the Personal Info screen. The heading, when displaying a caller's personal information screen, showed as 'Change Personal Information'. This should have displayed as 'Personal Information' and I promised to change it a while ago. Well, for my fellow perfectionists, it has finally been accomplished. The CFG entry that allows you to pull the caller's alias from the DOOR.SYS, now has another sub-option. This sub-option FORCES the use of the caller's logon name to be used as the Alias. MMAINT: Added an option to enable the Sysop to delete ALL users from a particular BBS Added an option to UNDELETE an individual database entry or ALL Database entries Added an AUDIT option to be used to determine the number of users/messages by BBS, in the MMAKER databases Added an option to allow the SYsop to change a users logon name. In order to add in more features we have had to make room in the program by removing the BLACKOUT TIME feature. You will have to remove the (5) lines of XXXX/YYYY's from the CFG file. When using option 4 to Make-A-Match, the program will automatically keep track of the matches you have made (up to 100). When you subsequently go to option 5 to see the profiles of those you matched to, you will be given a choice of entering an individual user's name to view OR the program will show you the profiles of ALL the matches you made. This will eliminate, to some extent, the necessity to write down the names of those you matched on to use in option 5. 05/06/94 [v4.6] MMAKER: Callers were unable to enter the Door. They were being told that they already had an Alias. This was caused by a corrupted MMAKER.EXE file. Error 52 being generated. This was caused by a corrupted MMAKER.TXT file. We have recompiled MMAINT.EXE, MMAKER.EXE and MMEXCH.EXE to make sure we catch any other strange problems BEFORE they occur. *** For some strange reason we experienced several problems relating to corrupted files with the MMAKER archive. At this time I have no idea why, but I believe everyhting should be fine with this release. My apologies to those that have been victimized by these problems. The prior release can almost be defined as the "Release from H*ll" 05/05/94 [v4.5] MMAKER: When doing a match, the bottom of the screen shows the caller the record numbers being processed. At times the record being processed was not the true number (usually less than the actual number). When doing a match the option to match on NEW callers since last logon, was not working properly. I believe we have this fixed (where have you heard that before?) The documentation, on page 7, makes mention of a sample file called MMDLTEXT being included in the archive. Unfortunately it was not included in the last archive and I am not sure how many of the recent Match Maker archives this was missing from. The file in question is used to give the caller instructions as to how to respond to the questionaires offline and then upload them. This text file is then affixed to the beginning of then download questionare file(s). I would URGE you to edit the file and then go into the Match Maker Maintenance file and run option 7 to recreate the questionare download files. When trying to send a message to a person whose name started with a numeric character, the program would indicate that that person did not exist in the database, when in fact it did. 04/20/94 [v4.4] MMAKER: If PROTOCOL.DAT is not found an error 52 was reported. This is an erroneous error as it should have reported Error 53. This has been corrected so that if that file is missing it will not attempt to load the Protocols. The display line for COUNTRY had a '/' instead of a ':' The display line for Orientation did not show a ':' When answering the questions user is reminded whether they are responding to the SELF-DESCRIPTION questions or the DESIRED MATCH questions by flashing DESIRED MATCH and/or SELF DESCRIPTION. This has now been changed to flash ONLY if you are using the dual questionaire option. If 1st character of ALIAS not an Alpha character and there is more than one non-Alpha character Alias in the database, the Door was not handling the Index correctly and would return an error message indicating that the caller already had an Alias when they attempted to log into the door. When answering the DESIRED MATCH questions, the user will now have another option, + = "I DO NOT CARE", which in essence says to flag all the answers so that he/she will match whatever answer the program encounters for others in the database. When making a match, the caller will be asked another criteria question: Whether they want to include the entire database or only those in the database that have been entered or changed since the caller's last logon. When entering personal information for a new caller, there was no indication on the screen as to how to quit and start over. The command is "Q" and it will now show on the CITY/STATE line of the personal info screen. When using option #6 (Userlist) the caller will now be asked if they wish to view the entire User List or just those that have been added since the caller's last call. Added another Match Criteria option. This option will ask for a MUST MATCH question number. If the users in the database do NOT match the caller on this question then they will be bypassed even if other questions are a match. If the caller enters 0 for this option then the MUST MATCH option will be ignored. Will only accept ONE question number! The verbage for option 5 was incomplete, it was missing the second line. When reviewing someone's responses to the questionaire, the heading read "SELF DESCRIPTION". It will now read "User's Responses". When doing a match the program was NOT bypassing DELETED records. It will now! If you placed a 0 in the CFG for number of times the Door could be played per day, it would default to 1 per day. This has now been changed to default to 99 games per day. You can override the default value by placing the correct number of games allowed in the CFG. When displaying other participant's responses, their names will be displayed at the top of the screen rather than 'user's responses'. MMAKER.TXT has been updated. Be sure to replace! MMAINT: When doing a re-index, the record number being acted on, if greater than 99, was overlaying the 'of' on the screen display. This cosmetic 'problem' has been fixed. Reindexing of the user's database was not working correctly under certain circumstances. It seems like we have allowed any Sysop to EDIT or DELETE profiles of those who were not members of current BBS. This only affects participants in an Exchange Network. Options that require registration will now state so instead of just returning to the menu Added the ability to change a caller's ALIAS. You will only be able to change the ALIAS for a user that originated from YOUR BBS... When the Sysop wanted to force a SINGLE user to reanswer the questionaire he/she would choose the appropriate sub-option from the Main Menu Option #6. Unfortunately MMAINT would just return the Sysop to the Main Menu, not doing anything. The SYsop did not realize that nothing was done and assumed the request was honored. When deleting a user record associated with your BBS, MMAINT was marking it as deleted, but the re-indexing routine was not recognizing that it was deleted, thereby including it in the User Index. When a person logged on to MMAKER and used the deleted alias they were told that someone already had that alias and the person was denied access. You should re-index the User Base. Added another option that would allow the Sysop to UNDELETE a previously deleted user record. This option will only work on those users that originated on the current BBS. When doing the User Purge, the program was not displaying the record number it was working on when it was recreating the User Master file. The Sysop could mistakenly think the computer was hung as it does take a few seconds to do the recreation and the Hard Drive red light would remain on and solid. After deleting a User, the purge User option was not deleting the deleted record. I have had some feedback about the inability to EDIT a caller's record, if they did NOT originate from the current BBS. For the most part there has been general acceptance of this concept. However, yes there is always a however, I have been asked to allow any Sysop to modify the PICTURE FILENAME portion of the record. I see no problem with this other than it would normally cause the record to be re-exported. In this case I will not allow it to be re-exported since in theory the Picture Name is being changed for local use only. I welcome feedback on this, but do not want to overly complicate such a simple change. MMEXCH: If you are participating in an Exchange network then whenever you delete a user from your Database it will be deleted from all other participating databases. When importing User's database, and a corrupted record is encountered the program would create an 'Bad File Name' error. We have added a bypass for the error (error # 52). Added some more 'record processing ' information to the screen display during import/export. Reports of User Profiles/Pictures/Messages recycling between HUB/Node/HUB even though there were no changes made that would have caused it to export. Additional changes to fix the recycling of files/messages Reports of not being able to login to the Match Maker Door, even though one had been on before. This would occur after doing an IMPORT from another system in a network. A way around the problem was to use the MMAINT program to re-Index the User database. Made some changes to the MMEXCH.LOG and the screen display to HOPEFULLY clarify the actions being performed. When Exporting a user record AND the Picture filename in the user's record indicates that there is a Picture file present AND the filename can not be located in the Exporting systems' file area, the user's record will be blanked out as will the exported record. When doing an IMPORT for the first time, the USER base imported fine but the MESSAGE base import would cause a BAD RECORD error. The problem occured in the re-indexing routine and thus also caused PICTURE files not to import Every time we do an import we will force a re-index of the User file. 12/25/93 [v4.3] MMAINT: If you attempted to put in Drive:\Path info into the Picture name field of the user's record you would generate a "Bad FileName error". All Drive:\Path\ info MUST be placed in the CFG file ONLY. We will now trap the error and give an "English" error message (ie: one that you will understand <g>) MMAINT: Under certain circumstances, using option 11 to strip the Drive:\path info from a user's record, was not stripping correctly. The result would be an incomplete filename being inserted in the user's record MMEXCH: The 2nd Message base re-indexing, used to ensure that the Logonname of the Message To recipient is correct, was not functioning correctly.. fixed! MMEXCH: The 2nd Message Base re-indexing was pathetically slow. It is now much faster. MMAKER: MMAKER is designed to handle the use of duplicate Alias', when you are involved in a network, provided they are used on differnent BBS' (different BBS names). Under certain cricumstances, when their was a duplicate Alias', MMAKER would deny one of those Alias' access even though they were logging on the correct BBS. This is a little tricky to word properly, but suffice to say I believe we have fixed the problem. MMAINT: Added a check to ensure that the Drive:\Pathname to the PICTURE files did not contain any blanks and a \ was the last entry on the line (in the CFG). MMAKER: Added a check to ensure that the Drive:\Pathname to the PICTURE files did not contain any blanks and a \ was the last entry on the line (in the CFG). MMAKER: Under certain circumstances a new caller, choosing NOT to answer questions but rather taking the defaults, will choose option 2 to answer the questionaire online and when each question is displayed they see answers from another user. In most cases the answers would be those of another user with the same Alias (imported from another BBS). This has now been corrected. MMAKER: Updated MMAKER.TXT 12/16/93 [v4.2] MMAINT: When re-indexing the Message base, the Logon Name of the person sending the message was being inserted in the Message index file instead of the Logon name of the recipient. When the record was originally created in MMAKER it was done correctly. This problem has no effect on Match Maker, but does affect the MMBULL (Match Maker Bulletin Generator) program in that the bulletin would show that a caller had mail waiting when infact they did not. With this change MMAINT will geenerate the Index file correctly. MMEXCH: The "can't open MMTEMP" error message reared it's ugly head again. We thought we had it fixed in the prior version, but as luck would have it, we only fixed part of the problem. We believe we have it totally erradicated this time. This will also fix other reports of not being able to export/import the PXP picture files. MMEXCH: The maximum length of the Match Maker Exchange filename (line 29 in CFG line) is 6 characters. The MMAKER program was checking for it, but the MMEXCH program was not. If someone used a name longer than 6 characters the program would error out with a 'bad filename' message. MMAINT: Program was not allowing Sysop to edit field 13 (Originating BBS Name) in the User record. MMAINT: If you selected option 1, chose / to review all records, editied a record, chose "continue search..." you would be returned to the menu without continuing the search. MMEXCH: Added a routine to fix the Message Index to plug in the correct LogonName of the TO portion of the message. This only affected the MMBULL program. MMAKER: As many of you found out, we only allowed 28 characters for the Picture file name. With version, the file name will be limited to a maximum of 12 characters AND Drive:\Path information, for ALL Picture files, will be placed in the MMAKER.CFG file. You must update your CFG file AND then run option 11 in MMAINT. MMEXCH: By moving the Picture File Drive:\Path info to the CFG file, ALL exported Picture file names will NOT contain any pathing info. MMEXCH: Corrected problem whereby the Message Index was being corrupted when importing messages. This gave the effect that the message base was 'wiped out'. The messages were not lost, rather the Message index was corrupted. To correct the problem you would have had to re-index the Message base via the MMAINT program; that action is no longer required! MMAINT: When re-indexing Messages, the program undeleted any previously deleted messages MMEXCH: To give the Sysop more control over the archiving/unarchiving of the Picture files, we have now externalized this function. By externalizing we mean that you can create your own batch files any way you want, using the archiver of your choice. We will pass 2 parameters to each batch file as follows(we will use PKZIP and PKUNZIP as the examples): PKZIP %1 %2 where %1 = ZIP file name and %2 = Files to be ZIPPED PKUNZIP %1 %2 where %1 = ZIP file to be unzipped and %2 = pathname from MMAKER.CFG into which you will UNZIP Pictures The name of the Batch files must be placed in a file called COMPRESS.DAT. There must be only 2 entries in this file, the first is the name of the ARCHIVER batch and the second the name of the UnARCHIVER. A sample COMPRESS.DAT is included, using PKZIP/PKUNZIP and the sample Batch files (ZIP.BAT and UNZIP.bat), can be found in the MMBATCH.ZIP file in the MMAKER directory 12/01/93 [v4.1] If you indicated, in the CFG file, that you wanted to use the Alias from the Door.SYS AND the Alias field of the DOOR.SYS was blank or null the program would loop at the 'enter alias' prompt. The program will now check the ALIAS field and if it is invalid the program will require you to input the Alias. When editing a users record, in MMAINT, and you choose to edit the CITY, the prompt indicated STATE and COUNTRY. The prompt has been changed. The correct field was being updated regardless of what the prompt said. The MM40EXP program that expands existing databases, did NOT expand the Message database. You can tell if the message database was expanded or not, by trying to read a message that was created by a version of MMAKER prior to 4.0. You should see garbage in the message header. This has now been corrected. IF you want to expand just the message database, then run MM40EXP as follows: MM40EXP MMAKER.CFG /MSG NOTE NOTE!!!! If messages have already been entered in the new version, this MUST NOT BE USED!!! Either restore the original MMSG.DAT and MMSG.INX then run this or delete the same files and let the users start with a fresh Message Database. IF YOU HAVE NOT ENCOUNTERED A PROBLEM WITH THE MESSAGE DATABASE after doing the original MM40EXP, then this does NOT APPLY When exporting pictures with the MMEXCH program, the program returned a "can't open MTEMP" error message. If someone logged on to MMAKER, reviewed a user's record that had not answered all the questions, the program would return the caller to the main menu. However, 2 of the options on the main menu would be disabled. 11/19/93 [v4.0] ****NOTE to PRIOR REGISTERED USERS****: This version of Match Maker requires that you obtain a new registration number for both the Match Maker and Match Maker Exchange programs. SEE UPGRADE.TXT for more information!!!. The Door will revert to an unregistered version, until a registration number is obtained. ************************************************************* Due to a change in the user database you will be required to run a conversion program... MM40EXP.EXE. Just run the program and it will do the conversion. This program is to be run only ONCE! The MMAINT (Match Maker maintenance) program will now allow you to edit a number of fields in the User's record. MMEXCH (Match Maker Exchange), when indexing the Message Database, was marking ALL messages as being NOT deleted even though some were previously marked as being Deleted. MMEXCH (Match Maker Exchange) was allowing duplicate users records to be imported. I believe we have that fixed. If you do not allow Downloads then the caller will NOT be able to take the default answers and must answer questions online. Caller can use High ASCII characters as input when filling out the 3-line free-form description about themselves (under Personal Information). This is controlled by a CFG option, since not every Sysop will want to allow this. I would imagine our friends in countries outside the U.S. would use this capability since their language makes use of the ASCII numbers greater than 127. On the Match Criteria screen we have now added defaults for each questions asked. If caller wants the default, they just have to hit the ENTER key. We also changed some of the colors on that screen as well. We removed all references to Birth Date since it was only used in conjuction with the Birth sign, which was also removed. We had to make some room in the program for other features and chose to remove the all references to the Caller's Birth Sign. We chose this to remove as it would be very easy for you to add it to your questionaire as an additional question. Added another criteria match option: State/Country. You can now narrow your matches to a particular State or Country. NEW FEATURE: You now have the option to present the caller with 2 questionaires. The first questionaire would be used as a self description questionaire. The questions would be designed so that the answers described the caller. The second questionaire would be designed for the caller to answer to describe what they are looking for in a match. When doing the match the program will match the caller's DESIRED responses against everyones elses SELF responses. Of course you do not have to use this new feature and stay with the single questionaire that is used as both a self description and desired match. You control this thru a NEW option in the Configuration file. Added a configuration file (CFG) option that will allow the Sysop to permit new callers to take the Default answers to the questionaire or force them to answer the questions. NEW FEATURE: Allow the caller to download a PICTURE file. In most cases this would be a picture of the person in the Database. If a caller would like to have a picture available for anyone to look at, they would first notify the Sysop. He/She would have the caller upload the picture. If the Sysop wishes to make the picture available for others to download, they would run the MMAINT program and EDIT that caller's record to reflect the name of picture file. When starting the MMAINT program, you no longer will use the / in front of the CFG filename. In prior versions of Match Maker the caller's BBS LOGON Name AND Alias were being checked against the TRASHCAN file. There was never any intention of checking the LogonName, so that check has been REMOVED. In MMAINT, when doing a Message purge, the program was not able to cope with a record that may have a garbled date. Made some color changes to MMAINT to make it easier to read when doing the purges. Updated DOC file to reflect the optional 2 questionaire concept for each sex. Added NEW entry to the MMAKER.CFG to control access to the Picture Viewing option. A zero(0) entry means everyone can view the pictures. Any other value will be used to match against the caller's BBS security level. If the BBS security level is equal to or greater than the CFG value the caller will be shown the Picture. Added a new entry to the CFG file to allow the Sysop to make the viewing/downloading of a PICTURE, security level specific. If a file named PICTURE.TXT is found in the MMAKER directory, it will be displayed to the caller just prior to them being given the option to download/view the picture for the caller being reviewed. Sysop can can have ANY verbage displayed in ASCII file. Made a change to the meaning of line 9 of the CFG file. In prior versions, this line referenced whether or not you wanted to allow ALL callers to use the Message Base or not. In this version we have changed it to allow the Sysop to define a MINUMUM security level that can access the Message base. If you wish everyone to have access you would use a zero (0). Added an option to the CFG file to control the Import/Export of the Picture files when particiapting in a Match Maker network. Fixed display problem in MMAINT when using option 10. Match Maker Exchange re-written to speed up processing. In the sample CFG and the Docs, changed the values, in line 9, from 1 to 0 Changed the extension of the Message file created during the exchange process from .MXP to .MEX. The change was required so as not to conflict with the same extension being used in the Classified Exchange program. Expanded the size of the Alias field from 10 to 25 characters State/Country has now been split into 2 different fields in the database. The State entry will be a maximum of 2 characters, since it refers to the United States. The country will be 3 characters. This is being done to accommodate our foreign customers and those whose Match Maker networks reach into foreign countries. Added a new option to the CFG file. This option will control whether you wish to use the ALIAS the caller has on the BBS. The way this will work is you must be using DOOR.SYS as the 'drop file'. When the caller logs on, and the CFG file says to use the ALIAS in the DOOR.SYS, the program will place the ALIAS it finds in the area of the screen the caller would normally use to manually enter the ALIAS. The caller will be asked if this is correct. If not correct the caller will be asked to enter the ALIAS manually. NOTE: Callers already in the Match Maker database, prior to this option going into effect, MUST use the ALIAS they entered previously. Minor verbage change to the MMAKER.TXT file CFG option that controls the use of the DOOR.SYS Alias/LogonName uses 3 possible numeric entries: 0 = Don't use the DOOR.SYS ALIAS option. Manual entry of ALIAS 1 = Use DOOR.SYS Alias for MMAKER Alias 2 = Use DOOR.SYS LogonName for MMAKER Alias Use 1 if your BBS software puts the Alias in the Door.SYS Alias field. Use 2 if your BBS puts then Alias in the Caller's LogonName field of DOOR.SYS. If a new caller takes the (D)efault answers to the questionaire, they will NOT have access to options 4 and 5 on the Main Menu... UNTIL they answer the questions online or upload their answers. When using option 10 in MMAINT to format a question file, and you had a BLANK after the M or S (for multiple or single answer), MMAINT generated an error 'S or M missing'. We will now trim the blanks before testing for an S or M. MM Exchange log file has been revised to make it easier to read New command line options added to MM Exchange if you are acting as a HUB in a Match Maker network. Further explanation can be found in the MMAKER.DOC file. When reading a user's profile AND there is a Picture attached that has a file name containing an invalid Drive letter or directory name the program will just ignore the fact that a picture is present. This will normally happen when you are reviewing a user whose profile was imported from another board. 09/01/93 [v3.5] CLEXCH was not importing any files other than one with the same name as the name defined in the CFG file. You can now use 3 lines for each question. NOTE: You MUST run MMAINT and choose option #10 !!!!! There have been several reports about problems related to deleting messages. The reports indicate that the message gets deleted, but the system hangs. I believe I have found the problem and fixed it. If you were one of those experiencing the problem, please let me know if this release fixes it. There have been several reports of MMEXCH not recognizing a legitimate registration number. Finally tracked it down and it should not be a problem any more. For technical reasons, MMAKER no longer supports CHAIN.TXT Several reports of receiving Error #70, even though SHARE was loaded. I believe the problem is now resolved. When a caller is in the Message Center reading a message and it is a 15 line message the <R>eply <D>elete.... etc overlayed the 15th line of the message... fixed! Updated MMAKER.TXT 07/14/93 [v3.4] Program was not accepting uploaded questionaire responses Scenario: New caller enters MMAKER, fills out info, chooses to take the Default answers to the questionaire. On next logon they decide to upload the answers to the questionaire, however, they were being forced to answer the questions manually before they had an opportunity to upload the answers. We have changed this to bypass the forcing of question answering if the caller originally took the default answers. When using option #1 in the MMAINT module, you were being returned to the main menu if you deleted an entry. The program will now continue to present all the users in the database. This will allow you to delete/view as many callers as you wish in one pass. 06/19/93 [v3.3] Added support for the PCBoard /M version 06/09/93 [v3.2] Fixed the ERROR 52 problem when uploading replies to the questionaire. After deleting a user record via the MMAINT program, the alias was still being displayed when you chose the 'display all users' option in Match Maker Door. Found a problem that seems to have been in the program for a few versions now. If a caller viewed another callers answers and then chose option 2 to change their answers, the changes would be fine, but you would not be able to reference the record of the person you had viewed using option 5. That person's record was fine but the program overwrote the index entry. The only way around it was to use the maintenance program and re-index the users file. The PROTOCOL.DAT file can now be made node-specific to accommodate using special information that is required for certain nodes and not for all nodes. There were reports about questions being changed by the caller and the changes not being reflected the next time they called and used the door. If you used option 1 of MMAINT to delete a user's alias, it would do so from the Master record, but not from the index file. When you went back to the Match Maker program it still recognized the caller as having been on before. When answering questions, the callers will not be asked if the answer is correct, since they always have the option of changing answers via the "Change Questions" option off the Main Menu. Added an option to the configuration file to ALLOW/DISALLOW the changing of caller's questionaire answers. Added an option to the configuration file to ALLOW/DISALLOW Uploading/Downloading of files. With this version, you will have to run the MMAKER maintenance program (MMAINT), option 10, everytime you make a change to the MMaker questionaire file (MMQUESTM.QUE and MMQUESTF.QUE). This option will convert these ASCII files into a format that can be used by MMAKER. The extension of each file will be .DAT after the conversion is complete. Added an option to the MMAKER maintenance program (MMAINT) to allow the Sysop to clear the questionaire answers for an individual caller. You might want to use this option if you are not allowing the caller to change their answers. Fixed a problem whereby the caller could enter a letter, as an answer to a question, that was greater than the highest answer letter displayed. When multiple answers to a question were allowed, the caller was getting confused as to how to enter the multiple answers.. an example is now shown at bottom of screen. When reviewing another caller's answers, the caller will be given a choice of displaying one question and all possible choices, one per screen OR a continuous display showing the question and only the answers. If a caller does not answer the questions, but takes the defaults, they will not be able to view any other caller's information until they either answer the questions online or upload the replies. If more than one message was waiting to be read, the caller would only be able to read one of them at a time, per call. When they logged off and back on again they were presented with the next message. The main menu will now reflect the number of messages the caller has waiting to be read. It will continue to display until the caller has read/deleted the messages addresssed to them. When a caller chooses to change answers to the questionaire, they will now be able to choose a SPECIFIC question number rather than having to go thru all the questions to just change one or two. SYSOP can now send a message to ALL Match Maker users on his/her board only (will not be exported if running in a network). This is accomplished by entering ALL in the TO field of the message. Be aware that this message will be flagged for the user to read EVERY time a caller opens the door. You can delete the message by reading it and taking the delete option. The message can not be replied to, nor can it be deleted by the user. If a caller does not answer the questionaire (chooses defaults) they will not be able to enter a message, reply to a message or make a match. If they choose the "Change questions" option to answer the questions they previously bypassed when they first logged on, they must answer the questions or choose \ to leave the door. Prior versions would only allow the caller to use the door once per day in the UNREGISTERED version. Only limitation will now be the number of users and number of messages. 03/10/93 [v3.1] NOTE: You MUST run MM31CVT.EXE to convert/expand the Master User File (MMAST.DAT). The program will also DELETE the existing MESSAGE Database. Due to a requirement to incorporate more information into each Message record we could not keep any current messages. (ONLY RUN THIS ONCE AND BACKUP THE DIRECTORY BEFORE YOU START!!!!) The Configuration file has been expanded to include two(2) new entries. These entries are required to accomodate the new Match Maker Exchange program. See DOCs for explanation! BRUN45.EXE is no longer required! Added support for Comm Ports 0-15 Added support for Multi-port cards! When at the "Enter Alias" prompt, caller will be required to enter a "Q" to quit. Previously an "enter" key would have done that, but if a caller pressed "Enter" too many times, when the door started, they would be returned to the BBS prematurely. State/Country information expanded to 3 characters to accomodate foreign country definitions. Maximum number of questions has been increased to 100 from 50 Added another option to the Sexual Orientation match criteria. (A)ll will allow for the matching on ALL Sexual Orientations. If the Sysop changes, adds or clears all questions the Match Maker will force the caller to answer those questions. In this version the caller will be taken DIRECTLY to the CHANGED/NEW questions without having to see any of the others. Previous version of the Door required the caller to have to step thru ALL questions. We have included a new MMNEWQUE.TXT file to reflect this change. If you have created your own then you may want to change the wording to reflect this enhancement. All KEYBOARD responses will now require that you press the "Enter" key. The "hot key", although a good idea, seems to have caused some frustration on the part of callers accustomed to working with 'non-hotkey' systems. Added a "Color ON/OFF' option to the Main Menu to allow callers to turn the color ON/OFF by just selecting the option. Turning color off will more than likely speed up the screen displays for slower modem users. Whichever option the user chooses, that option will carry from logon to logon, until changed again. Added 2 new options to allow your callers to DOWNLOAD the questionaire file, develope their answers and UPLOAD answers to the door. You MUST run the maintenance program and select option # 7 to CREATE a formatted questionaire file for download. You should also check the new file: MMDLTEXT, to see if you wish to change the wording that will be placed at the beginning of all downloaded question files. New callers will now be asked whether they want to answer your questionaire while online or take the default answers, download the questionaire and upload their answers on next call. The default answers to ALL questions will be the "A" choice. MMAINT was not deleting entries you marked for deletion using option #1. Changed 'Sexual Preference' wording to 'Sexual Orientation' Added a file called PROTOCOL.DAT. This file will contain ALL the protocols you allow to be used on your system along with the name of the batch files that each protocol will use for UPLOAD and DOWNLOAD. See Docs for more info. With this version of Match Maker we are introducing a program called MMEXCH.EXE. This program will allow you to exchange Match Maker USER and MESSAGE databases with other BBS'. The MMEXCH requires a separate Registration number and makes the networking of Match Maker relatively easy to facilitate. Your MMAKER config file MUST be updated with 2 additional entries, whether you use the MMEXCH or not! Reformatted the documentation and added a Table of Contents. Just bear in mind that I hate writing documentation <grin> We have expanded the use of the TRASHCAN file. It will now be used to check against the contents of all messages entered. It will only check the body of the message and will replace all occurances of words found in the MMTCAN.DAT, with asteriks. When doing matching, if the LAST user in the database does not match on any questions/personal criteria, the program would display the "No Matches Found...." message, even if there were other matches displayed. This 'bug' has been in Match Maker since version 1.0 as far as I can tell. MMAKER.TXT updated. 11/08/92 [v3.0] WARNING: If you are upgrading from a prior version, you must run MMDATCVT.EXE to convert the MMAST.DAT file to accomodate the changes made in the way the program handles multiple answers per question. Just run MMDATCVT.EXE! All entries in the database will be marked as being (S)traight, so if you activate the Sexual Orientation option, be sure to let your callers know that they will have to update their Personal Information if they have another preference!!! Added support for TRIBBS software. We now access the TRIBBS.SYS system file directly! After a CHAT or DROP-TO-DOS the game screen will now be restored to its original state. The program was counting each use of the door twice in the same call. In other words if you said you wanted to allow