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Updating To Trinity BBS V2.0:
You may only update version 1.9t to version 2.0. If you have a later
version, install version 1.9t before attempting to update to v2.0.
Step 1: Make sure no users are online and that all assignments have
been made (TRINITY:, CONFIGURATION: etc...)
Step 2: Run the program UpdateV19toV20
Step 3: Run TrinityUtility and reconfigure all of your node configs
Note: See the info about modem configs below.
Step 4: Edit your BOOTBBS script by removing the run partyline line and
adding Run TrinityControl before loading/running any nodes. Also
log files are now stored in a seperate directroy called logs. You
must add the assign logs: trinity:logs to the script. See the
included example bootbbs script included in the archive.
Note: You can load nodes from TrinityControl as well but not
automaticly. Also add the command run l:fifo-handler before
loading/running any node, otherwise the dos shell routine will
fail.
Step 5: Load Node 1 or Node 0 and go directly into SySop options and
reconfigure all of your access groups and make sure you update
users when it asks (this is due to all the new privilege flags)
Step 6: Reboot your BBS and have fun!
Most important new features/changes on version 2.0:
* A new module was created called TrinityControl. This is the power house
of all nodes. It controls nodes as well as display usefull information of
what each user on each node is doing, how many posts, emails, uploads,
and downloads they made this call, how much time left, and messages from
the nodes. Control will also allow the SySop to view partyline and all
OLMS without having to logon. TrinityControl makes commands to a node only
if it is active(highlighted). Use your mouse or arrow keys to highlight a
a node. Use menu items for commands and options.
* Signatures are now allowed in messages or email letters. Users can edit
their signatures via the editor or upload ansi signatures via xmodem from
the edit profile menu (if you allow them to).
* The global menu ( '.' from almost anywhere) has a few new commands.
Time: User can now check how much time they have left from anywhere.
Avail: Users can now make themselfs unavaliable for OLMS without hiding.
Snoop: If the privilege flag is set the user can now snoop a node--
litterally see everything the user is doing, in other words all
output is also sent to the node who is doing the snooping until
the ESC key is pressed. OLMS will still go through to the
user who is snooping. Note: node 0 or any node with a local login
can not be snooped. Warning: do not attempt to snoop a user who is
also snooping you, this will cause a strange experience since you
will get each others output-- it will be an endless loop of
characters!
* There is no longer init and offhook strings inside the node configuration
files. A modem configuration file is used now instead. This configuration
file will hold all command strings and result numeric codes for a particular
modem. Default modem configuration files are included for 2400, 14.4, 28.8
Bps modems. You may need to modify these files for your modem. You will
include the modem configuration filename in the node configuration. Trinity
will now respond baud rates correctly as long as the baud rate is defined
in the modem configuration file. View DEFAULT144.modem file for an example.
* Many privilege flags have been created. See Sysop options under edit user.
Almost every command/option in Trinity has a privilege flag required before
the user will be able to enter or issue the command.
* The PARSER init character is no longer '@'. It has been replace with
CONTROL-Y or CONTROL-Q. The reasons for the changes are: (1) To be more
compatible with CNET, (2) The @ was causing problems when users would for
instances type their internet email address. When a user keys either of
the control characters an '@' will still be displayed. Note, however the
'@' is not actually stored and can not be used as the PARSER init. It is
just displayed to the user for viewing purposes since some terminals do
not show CONTROL characters as anything visual. A program called PARSER
is included in this archive that will modify your current TEXT and OLP
files to the new character. The command line is PARSER <filename>.
* Several NEW AREXX commands were added for more compatibilty with CNET
AREXX pfiles. Trinity supports all CNET specific AREXX commands
except or with conditions to the following: (The file AREXX.DOC is a
list of AREXX commands support by CNET)
BBSCOMMAND For Trinity the only possible commands are what is
available on the global menu which is 1 character.
Trinity will take OLM because it will pull only the
'O'. The same for TIME and WHO, so it still should
be compatible with most existing pfiles.
GETUSER >45 Trinity is compatble with GETUSER values 1-45
Note: A Trinity specific value is 0 which returns
the address to the nodebuf stucture. Trinity will
respond NULL to anything higher than 45.
CHECKABORT Trinity does not check for CTRL-C after every
output. It only checks while displaying a file.
For this reason this command is useless and not
supported.
GETSCRATCH This can not be supported by Trinity.
LOADSCRATCH This can not be supported by Trinity.
PUTSCRATCH This can not be supported by Trinity.
PUTUSER This can not be supported by Trinity.
SAVESCRATCH This can not be supported by Trinity.
SELECTFILE Not supported at this time.
SETMINFREE Not supported at this time.
SETOBJECT This can not be supported by Trinity.
NOTE: Trinity BBS does very little error checking. Sending bad values
can crash your BBS, so be very carefull.