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GHOST BBS is a shareware mini-BBS replacement for the Datastorm
provided Host script in Procomm Plus for Windows. For a history of the
various releases of GHOST BBS, see the file HISTORY.TXT.
For those of you familiar with GHOST BBS in one of it's earlier
versions, perhaps a word of warning about GHOST 3.00 is in order...
IT'S DIFFERENT!! <GG>
Although the basic concepts remain, in some ways GHOST BBS 3.00 is a
radical departure from earlier versions, with menus and prompts which
the sysop may edit, support for multiple languages and multiple
download "libraries", many new support files, and much more.
However, perhaps the two most important changes are these...
1) The documentation for GHOST is now on line and contained in the
Windows Help format file, GHOST3.HLP.
2) GHOST BBS 3.00 includes an installation utility, which will either
install a new copy of GHOST, or update an older version to version
3.00.
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Whether you are upgrading GHOST from an earlier version, installing a
new copy of GHOST, or merely want to look at the documentation for
GHOST before deciding to install it, the procedure for getting started
with GHOST BBS 3.00 is the same.....
1) The GHOST 3.00 files should be contained in a self-extracting ZIP
format file (GHOST3.EXE). Copy this file to either a floppy drive
(high density) or to a working directory of your hard drive. Then run
the GHOST3.EXE file to extract the contents to that directory.
2) Copy the file INSTALLG.WAX from the source file location to your
PCP/Win default Aspect sub directory.
3) Load PCP/Win, and, using the drop down script listing in the tool
bar, select INSTALLG to run it.
4) The first thing this script will do is ask you where the GHOST 3.00
source files are located (which, of course, is the drive/directory
where you extracted the files from GHOST3.EXE). Type the name of that
drive and/or directory into the dialog box.
5) The installation utility will copy the GHOST3.HLP file into the
default PCP/Win executable directory. It will then minimize Procomm,
and load the GHOST 3.00 Help file. Be patient as this takes a few
seconds to finish.
6) Once the Help file is loaded, you may see a momentary flash of the
Procomm icon and a dialog box over top of the GHOST Help file display.
Don't worry about this. What has happened is that, once the Help file
is loaded, the script will restore the focus in Windows to Procomm.
The installation script then immediately transfers it back to the Help
file, so that you can browse through it.
7) At this point, you may browse through the GHOST 3.00 help file
before deciding to continue with the installation. You may want to
look at the Installation section of the Help file for more information
before deciding. In any case, you may look at as much, or as little of
the Help file as you wish before deciding to continue the installation.
8) When you are ready to go on with the installation script, simply
close or minimize the Help file. You will then, on the screen, see the
minimized Procomm icon, along with a dialog box asking if you want to
continue with the installation.
9) If, at this point, you decide not to continue, select NO in the
dialog. The installation utility will then ask if you want to delete
the Help file for GHOST (just in case you want to continu browsing it
and do the installation later). The install utility will then delete
the Help file (if you told it to) and finally, delete itself from your
drive.
10) If you decide to continue with the install, select the Yes button.
Answer any dialogs which appear. When completed, the INSTALLG file
will delete itself from your ASPECT subdirectory.
The GHOST Help file is available in GHOST or the GHOST Utilities, from
any dialog box which has a Help button in it, or by pressing the
standard Windows help key, F1, or by selecting Help from the GHOST
Sysop menu when it is on screen (i.e. a user, remote or local, is on
line with GHOST). It may also be run without running GHOST itself,
either from the command line in FileManager, or by double clicking on
the file GHOST3.HLP (located in your default \PROWIN directory).
Once the installion or upgrade is completed, you should run the GHOST
utilities (in the script drop down box, it will be GHSTUTIL) to
configure the various settings in GHOST for operation. Once that is
done, selecting GHOST in the script drop down will load GHOST for your
first "session" with it, and allow you to do the final configuration
(if you wish) for various run times, and so on.
There is a file in the release ZIP which is not necessary for the
installation, but which might interest you. This is SCREENS.EXE, which
is a self-extracting ZIP containing quite a few different examples of
ANSI screens and menus.
Vlad Balak, a GHOST 3.00 beta site in Brisbane, Australia, spent over
a month working on various sample screens, and uploading them to my
system so that we would have some samples of alternative ANSI displays
to include for you. If you want, these can be used to replace the
various screens and menus in the default GHOST installation, or they
can be used as starting points in TheDraw or similar, for designing
your own variations for GHOST.
Have fun, and as always, if you have any questions, please feel free
to contact me.
Gregg Hommel
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(SPECIAL NOTES FOR BETA SITES - Because you have been using variations
of the release version, there are a couple of special considerations
for you.
If you are running anything previous to GHOST 3.00 beta, build 1 (e.g.
GHOST 2.14 or 2.20 betas), use the INSTALLG utility to upgrade to
GHOST 3.00. It will upgrade these versions to 3.00, but will not run
if you already have a GHOST 3.00 beta installed.
If you are running GHOST 3.00 beta, build 1 through build 6, you will
need to....
A) Use the release version WAX files to replace your older beta WAX
files.
B) replace your LANG1.PMT file with the release version, in order to
get the newer prompts (which now include the entire prompt, plus the
new GHOST @variables) Of course, if you had multiple languages set up,
you may also need to edit your other PMT files to match the newer
format for prompts.
C) log on to Gregg's Place BBS and get the file UPTOREL.ZIP which
contains a utility (USRTOREL.WAX) to convert your USR files to the
final GHOST 3.00 USR/REC format.
Those sites already running beta build 7, simply copy the WAX files
from the release version to the appropriate directories. There are a
couple of "tweaks" for speed, some changes re: the HLP file access,
and one minor bug fix in the release version of these WAX files.
One last item.... if you have an older copy of the GHOST3.HLP file
installed in your \PROWIN directory, don't forget to replace it with
the final version in the release files.)
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