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| TGBDAY v1.00 Documentation
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| Telegard Monthly Birthday Bulletin Generator
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| Copyright 1991,1992 by Tim Strike and
| Forbidden Knights [BBS] Software Systems and Programming.
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INTRODUCTION
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For use with Telegard 2.7. If used with any other versions of
TG, TGBDAY could cause unpredictable and unrepairable results.
How many times have you wanted to know the birthday's of users
for a certain month, but found the current utilities only made daily
listings, and you didn't feel like searching your userlist? Well,
TGBDAY was designed to make a bulletin of birthdays for a whole
MONTH rather then just day - this allows you and other users to
quickly "glance" at the list, and see whom they should wish a happy
birthday!
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COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS
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TGBDAY requires at least two command line parameters, and
depending on which function of TGBDAY you are attempting to
run.
syn: TGBDAY [GFILES_PATH] [OUTPUT_FILE]
The Gfiles_Path is the path to where you store your USER.LST
and other files. This is needed to load the "USER.LST" and default
colours.
The OutPut_File is the .MSG that will be created. It will be
created in whatever directory TGBDAY is in unless you specify a
location (suggested location is AFILES).
syn: TGBDAY [GFILES_PATH] /SETUP
By making the second parameter /SETUP, TGBDAY will jump into
setup mode and allow you to configure the colours for the bulletin
generated. (It's all self explanitory - you are given the list of
standard colours (from TG) and then prompted for values for certain
colours. Hitting [ENTER] will accept the default).
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VERSIONS
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This will contain UPDATE info for future releases, as well as
some bugs fixes and a general summary of all the new features added.
Please read this section of the documentation on every update if you
don't plan on reading any of the other inform
+:New Feature *:Updated (Fixed) Feature $:Wide Beta Feature
v1.00
+ Written in Turbo Pascal v6.0.
+ First release to the general public.
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LEGALITIES
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WARRANTY
TGBDAY is provided as-is, without a warranty of any kind,
either expressed or implied. It is only guaranteed to occupy
disk space, nothing more. Under no circumstances shall the
author be liable to you or anyone else for any damages,
including (but not limited to) any lost profits, lost savings
or other incidental or consequential damages arising out of the
use or misuse of this program.
In other words; RUN THIS PROGRAM AT YOUR OWN RISK. You
yourself, and nobody else is responsible for the outcome of
choosing to run this program.
But NEVER the less, all care should be taken whenever
you run new programs on your system. Files opened by TGBDAY
include USER.LST, only file written by TGBDAY is the output
file (which is rewritten everytime).
Make backups of these files, and continue to make backups of
all your files used with BBSs. Trust me; I've had way to many
crashes, and it's always good to have a backup.
Again, run this program at your own risk.
COPYRIGHT
The program, and all documents and files included in the
TGBDAY release package are copyrighted to Tim Strike and
Forbidden Knights [BBS] Software Systems. They are not to be
modified in any way, shape or form; However the distribution
archive may be changed from ARJ so long as no files are added
nor removed.
TGBDAY can not be included on any distribution diskette,
nor can it be included in any distribution archive without the
prior written consent of Tim Strike.
CREDITS
All brand and product names referenced in this document are
trademarks, registered trademarks, or copyrighted works of their
respective holders.
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REGISTRATION?
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[ Begin Critic Mode ]
I require absolutely NO registration for this program. I see
no reason why ANY author should charge registration for something so
small. Yes, you run it everyday, whooppie who da day. Registration
spoils the fun, and also makes many people who can't program go
broke from paying registrations to simple programs. ANY author who
charges for software similar to mine should go jump off a cliff. If
I can program equivalent programs, I will. Payment is for those who
are greedy. See, I started off programming this for my use only,
and it eventually made it's way to be released. So, if I've already
gotten the return I originally expected, why should I charge?
This is not to say I don't agree with registering software. I
do; if the author has put a lot of time and effort into the program
and the registration is reasonable. I've made a sincere promise to
myself that no program of mine that is simple will require
registration. I've also made a promise to myself that if I do plan
to charge registration, it will always be cheap and affordable,
paying less for quality is my concept.
I'm not meaning to direct this at any specific person. I have
however looked at many programs in the past and just recently, that
are good programs, but ruined by greedy programmers. Leave the
cheating of people to the corrupt politicians (not saying that all
politicians are ;) and let normal computer users enjoy a hobby that
is already expensive enough!
So, to any author who charges for simple software, including
simple editors etc, my suggestion is STOP asking for registration.
I do this as a hobby, it's fun, but it's better to know that people
like my program and use it, rather then having people going 'MY GOD
$15 DOLLARS FOR A MASTER FILE LIST GENERATOR?' .. Lame, honest to
goodness, lame. Greed goes beyond that of just asking for money, I
wouldn't mind so much if it was something that a lot of work was put
into, or even if the support was absolutly great .. But I see people
just charging for something really simple, going 'Send me $10 for
the userlist generator' .. gimme a break people, do you absolutely
feel you deserve recognition for your work? If you do, then the
gratitude of others should be enough to overpower your greed.
So, again, this program is FREE of charge. Absolutely no money
down, no payment .. ever. If you really want to send me something,
umm, a nice little message saying 'I like your program, and I use it
all the time' is all I really need to make my day.
[ End Critic Mode ]
(If you are an author and wish to adapt this message to include with
one of your programs, please contact myself and give me full
credit, but you are all free to spread this message against greed.)
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CONTACTING THE AUTHOR
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I may be reached by sending netmail to TeleNet Canada Node
20:22/0 or FidoNet Node 1:259/423. You may also choose to post a
message to me through either the TeleNet Canada Telegard
Conference, or through the Telegard Support Conference distributed
via Telegard Beta Sites.
I may also be reached via my own board, Forbidden Knights at
[416]820-7273. 2400-14,400 HST. Before 4:00am, after 6:00am.
Any changes or updates that need to be made to TGBDAY v1.00
will be made a new version will be released. Further
suggestions, comments and/or bug reports can be directed through one
of the above methods.
Anyways, I hope you will enjoy the use of TGBDAY v1.00. It
didn't take to long to produce, but hopefully you'll be pleasantly
surprised with this program.
Enjoy fully.
Sincerely,
Tim Strike, Forbidden Knights [BBS] Software Systems and Programming.