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- Documentation for the file CPC12-5B.MRG
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-
- This documents the changes to RBBS-PC version CPC12-5A
- that are incorporated in version CPC12-5B of RBBS-PC.
- CPC12-5A is the version of RBBS-PC that was released
- July 14, 1985.
-
- With the availability of two new BASIC compilers, Quick
- Basic from Microsoft for $99 and Version 2.0 of the IBM
- BASIC compiler for $395, CPC12-5B will be the last release
- of RBBS-PC that will be compilable under the Version 1.0
- of the IBM BASIC compiler.
-
- Since Microsoft's QuickBasic compiler is a subset of
- IBM's new Version 2.0 BASIC compiler, future versions of
- RBBS-PC will be tested and developed using Microsoft's
- QuickBasic.
-
- RBBS-PC version CPC12-5B source code can be created by
- merging CPC12-5B.MRG into the source code for version
- CPC12-5A of RBBS-PC.BAS.
-
- To upgrade the source code of RBBS-PC.BAS from version
- CPC12-5A to version CPC12-5B enter the following
- commands:
-
- BASICA (DOS prompt and default drive assumed)
- LOAD"RBBS-PC.BAS" (Make sure it is version CPC12-5A source)
- MERGE"CPC12-5B.MRG"
- SAVE"RBBS-PC.BAS",A (Make sure you have a backup of CPC12-5A
- source before entering this command)
-
- RBBS-PC CPC12-5B requires CONFIG level 1.8 in order to
- operate! Before using CPC12-5B.MRG, CONFIG must:
-
- 1. Be upgraded from level 1.7 to 1.8 by replacing the
- old CONFIG.BAS with the new CONFIG.BAS for level 1.8
- (there is no .MRG file!).
-
- 2. Running CONFIG version 1.8 against your existing
- RBBS-PC.DEF file and having CONFIG re-write a new
- .DEF file after you reset option 126 to maximum number
- of messages you allow. This must be done for all
- conferences as well.
-
- RBBS-PC CPC12-5B will not function using a .DEF file
- created by any version of CONFIG.BAS other than level
- 1.8.
-
- Version CPC12-5B:
-
- Version CPC12-5B HAS NO NEW ENHANCEMENTS over CPC12-5A. It
- is absolutely a maintenance release. The primary errors that
- are corrected in 12-5B are:
-
- o RBBS-PC no longer requires the "ring indicator" signal
- (i.e. pin 22) unless the SYSOP wants to use "ring-back"
- or RBBS-PC to answer the phone only after the "nth" ring.
- Correcting the earlier dependency on the "ring indicator"
- will allow more modem's and systems to run RBBS-PC.
-
- o Users are now notified of the date and time that they where
- last on. Correcting this security laspe allows users to know
- if someone is accessing a system with their name and pass-
- word.
-
- o The time in "chat" mode is no longer counted against a users
- elasped time. Correcting this error, hopefully, will encourage
- more exchanges of ideas.
-
- o Users can no longer enter mail to adressees that are not in the
- USERS file. Correcting this error insures that users can not
- send mail to "phantoms" except to those "phantoms" (i.e. AUTHORS)
- which the SYSOP has established.
-
- o Users are now told that either Ctrl K or Ctrl X can interrupt
- file transfers.
-
- o "WRK" has been added to those files that require binary transfers.
-
- o Uploads that are for the SYSOP only (i.e. whose descriptions
- begin with a "/") no longer have the description lost. It is
- now added to the CALLERS file.
-
- o Users who are locked out and call back are denied any future
- access if they commit another security violation. This corrects
- the problem of those who continually attempt to break RBBS-PC's
- security being allowed to call back indefinitely.
-
- o The problem with the SYSOP function # 2 not displaying all the
- users has been corrected.
-
- o The problem of RBBS-PC placing the last message read in the main
- MESSAGES file when coming back from a public conference has
- been corrected.
-
- o The problem of searching for a user with SYSOP function 5 causing
- RBBS-PC to go into a loop has been corrected.
-
- o When searching the drive's available for uploading (if more than
- one), all drives are now searched.
-
- o The error that allowed the SYSOP to exceed the maximum number of
- lines per message has been corrected.
-
- o The error where when selecting a nonexistant conference that would
- still place that conference name in front of the menu prompts has
- been corrected.
-
- o Users are only authorized to read messages no longer can reply to
- them or kill them.
-
- D. Thomas Mack
- Jon Martin
- Ken Goosens
-
-
- August 25, 1985
-
-
- Line Reason
-
- 3,115 Change version number to CPC12-5B beta test phase 4.
-
- 235, 240, RBBS-PC no longer requires the "ring indicator" signal
- 266, 270, (i.e. pin 22) unless the SYSOP wants to use "ring-back"
- 320, 321 or RBBS-PC to answer the phone only after the "nth" ring.
- Correcting the earlier dependency on the "ring indicator"
- will allow more modem's and systems to run RBBS-PC.
-
- 800, 816 Users are now notified of the date and time that they where
- last on. Correcting this security laspe allows users to know
- if someone is accessing a system with their name and pass-
- word.
-
- 842, 4770, The time in "chat" mode is no longer counted against a users
- 4775, 41020 elasped time. Correcting this error, hopefully, will encourage
- more exchanges of ideas.
-
- 1385, 1386 Users who are locked out and call back are denied any future
- access if they commit another security violation. This corrects
- the problem of those who continually attempt to break RBBS-PC's
- security being allowed to call back indefinitely.
-
- 1432, 6000 Users are now told that either Ctrl K or Ctrl X can interrupt
- file transfers.
-
- 1629 Users who are authorized to read messages may not reply or
- kill such messages unless that are also authorized to do
- explicitly.
-
- 2077, 2079, Users can no longer enter mail to adressees that are not in the
- 2081 USERS file. Correcting this error insures that users can not
- send mail to "phantoms" except to those "phantoms" (i.e.
- AUTHORS) which the SYSOP has established.
-
- 2200 The error that allowed the SYSOP to exceed the maximum number
- of lines per message has been corrected.
-
- 3115, 3130, Keeps user from inputing large numbers to force ERROR 6.
- 3140
-
- 5325, 5360, The problem of RBBS-PC placing the last message read in the main
- 5362, 10597, MESSAGES file when coming back from a public conference has
- 10598 been corrected.
-
- 10096 The problem with the SYSOP function # 2 not displaying all the
- users has been corrected.
-
- 10720, 10733 The problem where the upload directory would be displayed
- even when config said not to display it has been fixed.
-
- 11010, 11015, The problem of searching for a user with SYSOP function 5
- 11125, 12620, causing RBBS-PC to go into a loop has been corrected.
-
- 13238 Corrects the nonexistant conference name from being added in
- front of the menu prompts.
-
- 13380, 13385, When searching the drive's available for uploading (if more
- 20440 than one), all drives are now searched.
-
- 20247 "WRK" has been added to those files that require
- binary transfers.
-
- 50610 Uploads that are for the SYSOP only (i.e. whose descriptions
- begin with a "/") no longer have the description lost. It is
- now added to the CALLERS file.
-
- -------------------END of Merge for CPC12-5B---------------------
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