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10/20/91
The <T> command on the main menu has been changed. <T> will now
display the top 45 download report. The time information stuff has
been moved to the ? command.
Some command line parameters have changed for aviewcom. The node # is now %9.
%8 is now for the connect baudrate. I removed the -r%8 from the aviewcom
command line and replaced it with just %8. CdCom will add the -r to the
connect baudrate. This is done so it can also lock downloads (-d) if the
users security is insufficient to download in the program (specified by
cdcom.def). So if they are allowed to download from cdcom, it will pass
-rbaudrate to %8, if not it passes -d to %8 so they cannot download. If
you just don't want to allow downloads from aviewcom, then remove the %8
parameter and replace it with -d.
Sept 30, 1991
With this release of CdCom for shareware disks other than pc-sig I have
attempted to modify the door so that it can work with practically any
cdrom disk that has file category type description files. By this I mean
files.bbs, DIR#, etc listings that have file descriptions broken down into
categories (like games, utils, communications, etc). Most of the newer disks
do have these kind of listings so this should pose no problems. These listings
are then merged into a alphabetically sorted master file listing for easier
searching for the door. Some disks like rbbs-in-a-box already come with this
listing, and are ready to run. See the makexrf.doc for more details. However
some of the older disks do not follow this format, and you will need to do some
work in order to get whatever listings you have into the proper format. For
some of these disks like this that I have come into contact with I wrote
separate conversion utilities whose basic source code is included in the
configuration zip file. These are the shareware carousel disks and the
programmers rom disk. If you are having difficulties converting your
descriptions then feel free to contact me and we can work it out hopefully.
Any convert.bas files I release for these disks will work in the qbasic.exe
basic interpreter that comes with dos 5.0 (at least I hope to keep it that
way) to keep file sizes down. This is under the assumption that most of
you have dos 5.0 also. You can contact me if you need a compiled (EXE)
version and I will provide it for you.
For those who have run the door before, this release marks the end of
separate releases of the door for each disk. All hardcoded items (which
was mostly just the information on the description files) are now located
in cdcom.def. The description files are the most difficult part, the actual
locating of the file and downloading was common between all disks anyways.
Be sure to look at the cdcom.doc file at the new cdcom.def lines. I have
also added the following features from the last release:
1: internal colors
2: ability to customize menus with information from callinfo.bbs (see cdcom.doc)
3: ratio checking (dl/ul only)
4: information bar on bottom of screen, scrolled in window.
5: plus fixed a few bugs that were brought to my attention
6: maintaining of a user file (cdcom.usr) will users dl's and dlkb. (see doc's)
All future releases of the door (bug fixes also) will always go by the name
CDCOM.ZIP, although I may need to start using version numbers now. We'll
see how this goes. I will also post new configuration files for disks as
I come across them, and I encourage you to upload any new ones that you may
come up with for your disk. You can see what files I included in the sample
configuration files to get an idea of what is needed for each disk. If you
find problems with the configuration files I provided please let me know.
I do not have most of the disks that are listed there so I was not able to
test all of them. I only tested the ones I had. But they should work fine
as the configuration files are quite simple I think. At any rate let
me know what you think, and I'm always open to new ideas for the door, and
I'll code them in when I have the time.
Eric
This new release will greatly simplify things for me as now I only have to
release one program instead of updating 15 zip files each time I fix some
bugs. I hope it works well for you.