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Thank you for taking the time to read this file and to evaluate the
shareware program BBSee. I believe that it will become one of your most
used programs. Included with this package is a file QUICKST.ART which
will give you a very quick intro. into BBSee and is MUST reading. To
best understand the program you will also need to read the
documentation, for if you don't you will miss a LOT of power.
The BBSee program and documentation is distributed in two .ZIP files
BBSEE##A.ZIP and BBSEE##B.ZIP. The ## refers to the current version,
which presently is 2.4 (hence BBSEE24A and BBSEE24B). Two other files
BBSEE##X and BBSEE##C (the 'extras' and 'conversion' files) are also
available but they may not be uploaded to every BBS, I leave it up to
users to distribute it. These files are not necessary for BBSee
operation, but they do add power to the use of BBSee. The latest
version of all BBSee files is detailed in BBSee's documentation.
1. WHAT FILES DO I NEED TO UPGRADE FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS.
The BBSEE24A.ZIP contains the significant portion of the upgrades to
version 2.4. It is a must.
The changes in the BBSEE24B (since 20B) file are minor. The
documentation has of course been changed to cover new features (as
covered in WHATS.NEW). IMPORT.EXE (and BBSee) have been updated to
handle a few more BBS types automatically.
BBSEE24C.ZIP. (no change since 23C) The converstion utility from other
programs has been completely rewritten as CATCON.EXE since 2.0. This
one program now converts from CatDisk, Intelicat, Wssindex, DiskTrak,
and CUDM. Support for CatDisk 43 character descriptions was added in
2.3. In addition there is a new small utility to convert the ASP catalog
to a format which can be imported into BBSee, which did not change from
2.2. A third conversion program FIX4DIZ.EXE has been added, see next
section.
BBSEE24X.ZIP is the same file as BBSEE20X.ZIP with two exceptions.
BBC2PCB.EXE was refined in V2.2 to allow output without the PCBoard '|'
character, and with a maximum column width of 78. PACBBSee has been
modified to block the archive database in a slightly more efficient
.manner
2. FILE_ID.DIZ/DESC.SDI extraction.
Since BBSee V2.0 came out it has come to my attention that BBSee did not
make the proper allowance to handle these files, if they were created
with an incorrect format. Specifically, these files should NEVER be
more than 512 characters long, but some people did not heed this
specification. BBSee now truncates descriptions with more than 512
characters, but there is a rare case that if you extracted an invalid
description, that existing descriptions in your database were not be
properly handled, which could lead to a hung machine if record buffers
overflowed (especially in Catalog description print reports).
To correct this there is a fixup program FIX4DIZ.EXE contained in the
file BBSEE24C.ZIP.
Martin Vallevand