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ProBoard 2.15 PEX Version 1.2Γ2
FreeWare by Olivier Debonne
*** Public Gamma version - Use at your own risk! ***
*** Mail me ASAP if you find any bugs. ***
Copyright (C) 1996 by Olivier Debonne
Free Corner BBS, +32-56-XX.XX.XX
(not online yet!)
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║ ▒▒ Introduction ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║
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MsgQuoter is a PEX for ProBoard 2.15 that let's the user choose a cookie
to add to the message they've written. It uses a special technique, so it
doesn't require special indexed files. It works with normal text files.
It's a slower method, but it only takes 4 second to take 9 quotes from a
350 Kb file, containing 8000 quotes! :-) So, speed is relative... FYI,
these tests were made on a Pentium 90 MHz with a PIO Mode 3 E-IDE Harddisk.
Supports both PEX and EXE Full Screen editors. There's no support for the
line-by-line editor by ProBoard. I recommend that you don't use this PEX in
this certain sitution. BTW, why don't you use a Full Screen editor, there
are many good editors available, even some of them are Free to use (NSDEdit,
FullEdit, TEdit, PEdit, ...).
With the release of ProBoard 2.15, it was unable to have a FSED.PEX in your
PEX Directory if you want to run the build-in ProBoard Full-Screen Editor.
In this version of MsgQuoter, you can still use the _FSED.PEX while having
a FSED.PEX in your PEX directory.
MsgQuoter will randomly display sixteen of the quotes in the file defined
in the MSGQUOTE.INI file. The quotes *CAN* contain ANSi codes, althought
it's not recommended because many mail readers can't display these codes.
But the posibility exist!
And MsgQuoter does *MORE*, all your users can have their own Sign-Off line,
the lines will be saved in the MSGQUOTE.INI file.
MsgQuote doesn't need an .INI file to be configured.
Messager needs ANSi to run smooth. If a you have users who use ASCii, don't
panic! The program will recognize their terminal setting and they won't see
that MessageQuoter was trying to be active.
MsgQuoter is, like all my other ProBoard utilities, FREEWARE.
I'd like to encourage more programmers to write FreeWare in stead of
ShareWare, because there are a lot of programmers (I don't write names)
who spend more time on their registration key system than the actual
program...
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║ ▒▒ Disclaimer ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║
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This software is copyrighted material of Olivier Debonne.
I reserve the right to quit giving support or releasing updates for the
software at any time.
The software and other material included in the distribution archive are
provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind. We do not guarantee the
correct functioning and/or reliability of the software. The author will
not be liable for any direct or indirect damages, resulting from the use
of the software.
You may not reverse-engineer this software in any way and you may certainly
not add, change or delete any files in the distribution archive !
You are free to distribute the original, unmodified MsgQuoter archive
provided no fee is charged for its distribution. This excludes charges
for online time on electronic bulletin boards or other communication
services.
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║ ▒▒ Changes ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║
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- Version 1.2Γ2 - Second Public Gamma!
■ Bugfix: Add own Quote works again! It failed to work when cursor was
on another line than the line of the first quote.
■ Path and filename of the Quotefile is not longer been displayed on the
remote screen. It's only displayed locally. Remote users will see
Quotefile instead of eg. D:\PB\TAGLINES.TXT. (Thanks to Wim Jans)
■ Changed the strategy of the way the Sign-Off line technique works.
Default answers are now Y(es). So, you only need to press [ENTER] :)
■ Header now remains on the screen when selecting no Quote. In the other
versions it would clear the screen.
- Version 1.2Γ - Public Gamma!
■ New Feature "Sign-Off"-lines! (Thanks to Gilles Hemberg)
■ Help screen is now displayed correctly.
■ Improved Cursorkeys-routine (less redrawning).
■ Little ANSi animation at the end of the program.
■ Animation when selecting Random Quote (like WOT, from [JMJ] :))
■ MsgQuoter now saves the Quote to ProBoard's Log-file, when a user has
entered his own Quote.
■ Bolean variable added to control whether to ask if the user want to
add his Sign-Off line to the message or do it automatically.
■ Some minor bugs fixed.
- Version 1.2ß - Public Beta!
■ Public Beta of a partitial rewrite of MsgQuoter 1.1.
■ Displays 16 Quotes on the screen.
■ Random Selection of a Quote.
■ Selection of the Quotes with Up/Down Cursorkeys.
■ Menu at the Bottom of the Screen.
■ Possibility to let the User add his Own Quote.
■ Possibility to let the User's Quote save into the Quotefile.
■ Help-text online.
■ Little SpinWheel when reading the Quotes into RAM in the upper
right corner of the screen.
■ Converted to work with my own writepcb()-routine.
- Version 1.1
■ Compiled with ProBoard 2.15 SDK.
■ Optimized for use with ProBoard Full Screen Editor (_FSED.PEX).
■ Doing 1.12 support.
- Version 1.0
■ This is the first public release.
■ Check if the TAGLINES.TXT file exist, if not gives a message.
■ ASCii users won't see a thing.
■ Automatically adjust the number of notes with the length of the file
containing the notes.
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║ ▒▒ MsgQuoter in the Future ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║
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■ Faster, 486/Pentium optimized version?
■ ASCii version, if needed?
■ Version for the line-by-line editor by ProBoard? If this posibility exist?
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║ ▒▒ Installation ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║
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Copy the PEX file (FSED.PEX) to the PEX directory. Copy the file
MSGQUOTE.INI to your ProBoard System directory. Copy TAGLINES.TXT to
the directory defined in MSGQUOTE.INI.
The file TAGLINES.TXT contains your quotes, enter one quote per line.
That's all folks!
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║ ▒▒ Credits ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║
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This program was made by Olivier Debonne. I used Borland C++ 2.0 for DOS
to edit and compile the source. The source contains about 1150 lines, which
is equals to 23.9 KB of code. That includes all commentary.
This document (MSGQUOTE.DOC) file was edited with the Editor (EDIT.COM)
supplied with Windows 95.
The following names/product mentioned in this document are copyrighted
material, trademarks or registred trademarks.
Borland C++ Borland International, Inc.
Fidonet Tom Jennings.
ProBoard Philippe Leybaert
Windows 95, MS-Editor Microsoft, Inc.
My home address is : Olivier Debonne
Kozakstraat 201
B-8560 Wevelgem
Belgium
I monitor both PROBOARD and PROBOARD.029 Fidonet echoes. My Fidonet address
is 2:291/1501.61. Leave a Netmail for a specific question!
My Internet E-Mail address : odebonne@texas.knooppunt.be
If you are able to "Surf" the World-Wide-Web, be sure to take a look at the
Virtual Soft Production Web-Site. All the latest PEXes can be found over
there. The URL is http://www.dma.be/p/bewoner/odebonne/v_soft/index.htm !
My files will also be available to FTP in the near future. In the meantime
I'll upload all my PEXes to silverado.cyberstation.net. That's the FTP Site
of Chuck King, ProBoard USA Registration Site.
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║ ▒▒ Credits ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║
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Greetings go to (in order of appearence) :
Ruben Provoost, Stefaan Ovaere, Garrick Darts, Jurre Van Dijken, Tom Van
Overbeke, Steven Leeman, Gilles Hemberg, Tom Torfs, Jonathan Cloots, Jeroen
Jacobs, Pieter Dom, Wim Jans, Eric Delaet, Ronny Minjou, Chuck King,
Branislav Slantchev, all points at Texas Van Vlaanderen, all readers of
the PROBOARD.029 and PROBOARD echo, all students at the P.I.H. in Kortrijk,
everybody who ever wrote a mail to me and all the FreeWare authors. Keep
up the good work! And I forget to mention all the ones I forgot <g> ;-)
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║ ▒▒ Distribution Sites ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║
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- USS Aurora - Belgium/Europe distribution site
Sysop : Ruben Provoost [JMJ] (Ruben.Provoost@student.kuleuven.ac.be)
BBS # : +32-16-490588 (V.34)
Fidonet : 2:292/628
- Orbit - The Netherlands distribution site
Sysop : Jurre Van Dijken (jvdijken@pi.net)
BBS # : +31-592-351561 (V.34)
Fidonet : 2:282/223
- The Slice of Lime BBS - UK/Eire distribution site
Sysop : Garrick Darts (garrick@wortz.demon.co.uk)
BBS # : +44-121-6226601 (V.34)
Fidonet : 2:2500/623
- I'm searching for distribution sites in other countries/districts. Please
write a message to me if you want to be my distribution site. All you need
is a 24/24h BBS with Fidonet and/or TGPBN support and an E-Mail account!
Other ProBoard alike nets are recommended, but not necessary.
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