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- --- WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.60 ---
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- │ 15 Nov 96 Version 3.60 - SNEWS360.ZIP 48,267 bytes │
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- This is the 10th release of Sicknews, but only the second in over a year.
- (The first public release came out 24th November 1994 and was a 9k zip!).
-
- The code has been completely rewritten since the last version. Hopefully
- this doesn't mean the bugs fixed over the past 9 versions will resurface!
-
-
- -- Additions (+), Changes/Fixes (*), and Removals (-) --
-
-
- + Ansi routines were completely rewritten. Many output file specific
- procedures made generic. The external header files are now read into
- memory before processing, minimising file access and speeding up
- processing.
-
- + Sicknews no longer supports PCB display files. Do not despair!
- PCBoard displays ANSI display files just as easily as PCB files.
-
- + The codes in the external header files have a new format. All or none of
- these codes may be entered into your header file.
-
-
- Code Format: ~ + <Insert String>
-
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- Possible Insert Strings
- -----------------------
-
- D : Date
- T : Title
- ! : Current Bulletin Number
- # : Total Amount of Bulletins.
- N : Current "News Text" Line
-
- Examples
- --------
-
- Code : ~D
- Becomes : 01/10/96
-
- Code : ~T
- Becomes : New online door game installed!
-
- Code : Bulletin ~! of ~#.
- Becomes : Bulletin 169 of 2000.
-
- Code : ~N
- Becomes : To join in, go to the Games menu and hit (S)!
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-
-
- + You can enter justification after your code.
-
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- Possible Justification Codes
- ----------------------------
-
- \ : Left Justification
- / : Right Justification
- | : Centered
-
-
- Examples
- --------
-
- Code : ~T\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ ~D\\\\\\
- Becomes : New online door game installed! 01/10/96
-
- Code : ~T/////////////////////////////////////////////
- Becomes : New online door game installed!
-
- Code : ~T||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||.
- Becomes : New online door game installed! .
-
-
-
- + The ~N code for your bulletin header adds a new dimension to Sicknews.
- You can now specify a place in your S-BUL for the bulletin text to go.
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- If the ~N code is not present in the S-BUL file, the news text is just
- placed after the bulletin header, by repeating the S-LINE file until the
- entire bulletin is displayed.
-
- + You can now include Sicknews |xx style color codes in the date and title
- of your bulletin as well as the bulletin text.
-
- * The External Headers are now placed in a HEADERS\ subdirectory.
-
- * Sicknews now uses TWO configuration files;
-
- · The first, SICKNEWS.CFG, contains the following personal information:
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- Name of Sysop
- Name of BBS
- Registration Code
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- Maximum Amount of bulletins to process
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- Pathname to Ansi output
- Pathname to Ascii output
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- Create Ansi output file? ( y | n )
- Create Ascii output file?
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-
- · The second, EXTERNAL.CFG, located in your HEADERS\ subdirectory,
- contains the following information about your External Header set:
-
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- # of "empty lines" between bulletins
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- Add First S-BUL? ( y | n )
- Add Last S-BULFTR?
- Clear the screen at the top of the output file?
- Clear the screen before each bulletin?
- Use "Kewl Color"?
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- Color of News Text
- Color of Upper Case
- Color of Lower Case
- Color of Punctuation
- Color of Hi-bit Ascii
- Color of Numbers
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- The purpose of this is so that you can distribute your header set and
- include the EXTERNAL.CFG file so that people can simply move the files
- into their HEADERS\ subdirectory to configure their copy of Sicknews
- to work with your header set.
-
-
- * There are now limitations on the size of the bulletin headers.
- See SICKNEWS.DOC for details.
-
- * Processing screen completely changed, removed the % complete graph.
-
- * The Clear2 option did not work properly (fixed).
-
- * When you hit [F] while selecting a "kewl" color, the type of character
- you are modifying will now flash.
-
- * Documentation improved, bad language removed.
-
- - There are no internal headers anymore, so if the external headers do
- not exist in the HEADERS\ directory, Sicknews will not process.
-
- - There is no more -Unregistered- line in the output files!
-
-