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Paradox Teletext Viewer
(c)1990 Tecnosoft (R.Piola)
How can a bbs-user view on-line the archives made with your wonderful
database?
This is the newest door for database viewing.
It can access a Paradox table and made it easy to read. It can operate
as a part of a BBS system, handling a serial port via a Fossil driver,
or as stand-alone viewing system.
The user side
An user calls the option for databse browsing.... a moment of waiting
(if your hard disk is very slow, two moments....) and a first page
appears with the database description: name, number of records, and
some instructions.
Now, the user can browse the database using the keys + and -, or jump
to a record directly by inserting its three-digit number (like the
Teletext system: one record=one page).
To end the viewing, the user has to press the Esc, or the * key.
Nothing is easier, don't you think?
The sysop side
Operations are not too harder from the sysop's point of view.
The only things the sysop has to do are:
a) Preparing the table using Paradox, Paradox Runtime or Paradox
Engine: the database must not be indexed (in this version) i.e.: it
must not have key fields.
b) Installing the PXVIEW door: an option runs as a shell
PXVIEW.EXE filename port [NOANSI|ANSI] [TIME:limit]
where "filename" is the name of the table (with complete path, if
necessary), without the .DB extension, "port" is a K or a number
between 1 and 8 (K: local mode, via keyboard; a number n: use port
COM#:) and NOANSI or ANSI disables (or enables) the transmission of
ANSI color codes (the defult is ANSI). If you use the TIME: switch, the
user has only a limit of "limit" minutes.
If the sysop already has Remote Access or QuickBBS, things are even
easier: the command line is only:
PXVIEW.EXE filename D[line number]
if you write D without a number, the file DORINFO1.DEF is read to have
informations on the user; otherwise (you write Dx), DORINFOx.DEF is
used.
Limitations
This version is released to the Public Domain with no warranty. in
future, a better version will be released as shareware.
This doesn't implie that if you love this version you cannot send a
little contribution, or a postcard of your country.
The limits of this version are:
- it cannot handle more than 999 records
- it cannot use correctly indexed files
- it doesn't handles correctly fileds of type "Date"
- it cannot search a record using Zoom and ZoomNext Paradox functions
The author, Roberto Piola, can be contacted at 2:334/15.1@fidonet.org
or, via slowmail, at the following address:
via D.Godino, 8/C - 10060 S.Secondo di Pinerolo(TO) - ITALY
or also (if you know Italian) on his BBS: +39-121-500663,
2400-N-8-1-MNP5
Paradox is a trade mark of Borland International inc.