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NOTE: The YAWC BBS CLIENT FOR OS/2 IS UNSUPPORTED. Feel free to email
bugs and things to me, but I make absolutely no guarantee, expressed or
implied, that there will be support available for this program. This program
is a combination of my OS/2 ISCA BBS client code, with the YAWC client code.
There are many functions that I have added to my ISCA BBS code, that I have
no intention of adding to this source code. I do not personally use any
YAWC bbs's with any frequency. Continue on, for installation instructions.
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YAWC BBS CLIENT FOR OS/2, FIRST RELEASE
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Specific OS/2 code by Eric Blade, aka PanaSonic, (c) 1997.
Installation instructions are below. Along with a lot of other crap.
There are no major differences between this client, and the client
I was pointed to available from the Monolith BBS site. (The default
site that this client connects to)
This is a text-based OS/2 application. It requires TCP/IP for OS/2 version
2.0 (or later), or the OS/2 Warp Internet Access Kit. If you can telnet from
your machine, you should be able to use this software. This has only been
tested under OS/2 Warp Version 4. It should operate under any version of OS/2,
however. This client also operates with OS/2 Warp Version 4 VoiceType
dictation and navigation. To use it with the navigation, simply create a
program object for the client, open the properties box, go to the speech
page, and create voice macros for whatever functions you want to create them
for. To dictate to the client, do the usual: "Begin Dictation".
If you truly desire source code to this program, you may reach me at
eblade@ccm.tdsnet.com, and I will arrange for you to get it. I ask that if you
make any modifications to the source code, that you use something along the
lines of the GNU DIFF program, and email me the results, so that I may
incorporate those differences into my own source code, and distribute it.
If you wish to reach me for any other purpose (bugs, suggestions, comments,
etc), please also email the above address.
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Installation:
Pretty much, pick a place to put the executable, and drop it there.
Run it when you want to connect to the ISCA BBS.
I HIGHLY recommend putting SET HOME=e:\home, or wherever you would like
for the client to put it's files. If you have the OS/2 ISCA client running,
then this client should run without problems.
You may have to SET BBSRC=<path to a bbsrc file>, and
SET BBSFRIENDS=<path to a friends file>, or else the client may complain about
being unable to figure out where to put those files. Set them to any
filename you would like, although you would probably prefer something that
won't get accidently deleted. BBSRC holds general client configuration, and
BBSFRIENDS holds your friends list.
If you have a HOME environment variable set, then ".bbsrc" and ".bbsfriends"
will be placed in that directory.
Another one that may have to be set is BBSTMP, which is a temporary file used
by the client to hold things such as message text, etc, and doesn't have to
point anywhere special.
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Miscellaneous Stuff:
If you have a variable set for EDITOR, that variable will be used as your
editor, from the <E>dit message function in the BBS's editor.
To access the client configuration, once on the BBS, type <C>, then hit
<C> again. That will bring up the client configuration.
Shell does NOT function in this version of the client. I have no intention
at this time of releasing an update to this client that will fix that. But,
this is OS/2, so you have all the multitasking operation you should want.
OS/2 does NOT support the Suspend operation (<Ctrl-B> <Ctrl-Z>) that most
Unixes do support. An attempt to suspend will generate an error message.
When you start the client, most likely there will be a pair of warning
messages, about setting access to the bbsrc and the bbstmp files. Ignore them.
(this is fixed in second release - if there are any warning messages or error
messages, PLEASE email me, eblade@netcom.com)
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Eric Blade
eblade@ccm.tdsnet.com
25Dec96
Notes on the source code, if you have it:
If you change the unix.c file (which contains most of the OS/2 specific code), you have
to compile it by hand, because I can't figure out how to make this damned makefile
(as written by Serendipity) to update unix.c without updating the entire source tree.
To make the program, you need EMX 0.9a FIX 03 or later, and GNU Make.
CD to the source dir, and type "gmake os2". (assuming your GNU make is called gmake)