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TMENU is for all versions of TriBBS. It works on my system but may not
work on yours. But, since it's FREEWARE, what do you have to lose? It
was written to be ran in your LOGON.BAT file. It reads the DOOR.SYS
drop file to get the callers Security level, then it creates menus for
that security level. If you set Security Type to "A" then it will create
"MAINALL.BBS", "FILEALL.BBS", etc. Otherwise it creates "MAIN20.BBS" type
of menus.
This program creates menus that with "@X"codes, so don't use "@" as a menu
option.
You "MUST" use security level's in your bulletin and doorbull menus. Set
them to "0" if they are to be seen by everyone.
Do not leave any lines of the Config file blank. The config file that I
use is included. If you don't include the config file name on the command
line then it defaults to TMENU.CFG
Also you will notice there is an option to do the TriMail Menu. For now
leave that set to NO. When I first wrote the program, Mark Goodwin was
thinking about changing TriMail to support @codes, but sofar hasn't.
Some of the problems that I and the beta testers have found and the fix.
1. If the Menu Title line is messed up, most likely the name of your BBS is
too long. In the config file put "NO" on line #3, or shorten the name of
your BBS. Style 10 will handle 25 letters, Style 8 will handle 27. The
rest will all handle 30 or more letters.
2. The menu option gets cutoff, this is because it's too long to fit the
template style that you chose. You need to shorten the option or choose
another template. Styles 2 and 4 are shortest and only allow 26
characters, so if your menus work with them they should work with the
rest. The other thing you can do is to create your own templates that allow
more characters, TMENU reads the template file to see how many characters
will fit then truncates any extra characters.
3. TMENU reads the *.mnu files in you nwork directory, make sure there
are no extra empty lines stuck at the end of the menu files.
If you run into any problems not covered above, zip your *.mnu files and
send them to either my Fidonet or Internet address with a short note on
what's happening. Include any error codes, if you get them.
If your updating from version 1.0 make sure that you use the "Style.BBS"
that came with this version. Also I have added a line to the config file.
For testing I suggest that you create a test directory and use that as line
#4 in the config file. There are several programs out there that will allow
you to read the created menus, I use one called "TriCoder".
Sample Tmenu Config file:
C:\TRIBBS\ ; Path to the Door.Sys drop file
Sons of Glitches BBS ; Name of BBS
NO ; Use BBS name in the Titles
C:\TRIBBS\DISPLAY\ ; Path to write the Menu Files
NO ; Do TriMail Menu
C:\TRIBBS\TRIMAIL\ ; Path to TriMail
0 ; Which Style of Menu. 0 = Random
S ; Security Type A = All, S = Specific
TEST ; Change this line to "REAL" after
; testing. In testmode security
; level defaults to 999
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William Jenifer
Sysop: Sons of Glitches BBS
Phone: 1 (520) 751-0229
TriBBS: #573
Fido: 1:300/114
InterNet: jenifer@primenet.com
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Style.BBS setup.
Style #
3 # of lines in Title section
2 # of line to insert Menu Name
6 # of line defining menu options
@X70 Color to use in Menu Name
@X71( Color and Symbol in front of index
@X71) Color and Symbol behind index
2 number of columns * leave at 2 *
@X74 Color of index
@X70 Color of options
@X78 Color of fill spaces
blank line
****** design your own template here *********
blank line
Where ever you need TMENU to fillin with your menu options and titles start
the space with @!@ and then end it with @!@. Also you need to end the menu
option line with @!@. An easy way to learn how the templates work is to
play around with Style #1, it's fairly straight forward in how it works.