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GEM (Get Echo Messages)
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What's new in release 1.5?
Yep, you read it right - we skipped a release....I didn't like it, so
I scrapped it.
Limitations have been added now to the message base path. 20
characters is maximum now for a pathname. Description in the MDIR.BBS
file must start in column 30, and will now be displayed on screen in a
different position.
Some additional file checks have been added, letting you know if it
can't find a directory.
With this release, it cleaned up some problems with a
Runtime Error 003.
What's new in release 1.3?
This release has been completely re-written. I stripped the entire code down
and cleaned it up. It is a bit smaller, and doesn't have so much extra "junk"
to sift through when debugging.
You still need sortf to use this program.
What's new in release 1.2?
Curtis Boykin had noticed a problem with the program hanging while sorting.
The reason for that is because I was calling the DOS sort program. Well,
DOS is slower than mollasses in January. I've updated the code now so that
it uses SORTF. Before running GEM version 1.2, you MUST have SORTF somewhere
in your path!
Added some extra file check routines.
What's new in release 1.1?
I have added a new feature. Yes, it takes the program a little longer to run,
but it's a good feature, I think. At the end of normal processing, reading the
MDIR.BBS and gathering all the needed stuff, GEM will now concantenate ALL the
areas listed in the MDIR.BBS file. For example:
Echo subscribers in C:\ECHOS\E00-200
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Echo subscribers in C:\ECHOS\E05-000
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
001/017 Victor Kilman
001/029 Scott Morris
001/040 B.J. Guillot
001/060 Richard Walker
004/000 Jim Rash
004/005 April Strong
010/003 Tom Currie
032/003 Cliff Hemstock
044/002 Jerry Havnar
070/002 Cory Wright
Echo subscribers in C:\ECHOS\E06-003
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
001/034 Ed Bacon
001/053 Patrick Thompson
004/000 Jim Rash
024/008 Joel Smith
Notice that if you have no subscribers in an area, it just passes the area
name, so you can know for sure which areas on your system do NOT have traffic.
I also changed the screen color back to normal b/w textmode. I had used the
default screen mode in Turbo Pascal, which is normally yellow.