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Endless Story DOOR
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Door To Allow Your Users To Add A
Line To An "Endless" Story.
What Is It?
Endless Story is a door to allow your users to each add a line
to an story, of which the topic is determined by you.
Experiences in the past show that users can get pretty weird
with this! The story is bound to become crazy within a day or
so. Lines such as "She walked down the long street walking her"
will end up with endings like "pet abominable snowman beside her."
Who/What/Why?
This door was written entirely by Greg Parsons. Any questions
regarding the door should be addressed to him at Paradise Cove
BBS (Number shown below). This door was developed using Sam
Smith's EXCELLENT ProKit libraries. Without these, this door
would have never been possible for me.
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Registering:
This door is FREEWARE. You may use it all you want, for as long
as you want with no obligation to buy or register it whatsoever.
However, I'd like to hear your comments on it. What would be
nice? I'd love to see who's using it. If you send me a postcard
from your hometown with your name, etc. on it, I'd appreciate it
very much.
Just in case, here's my address:
Greg Parsons
PO Box 44
Selbyville, DE 19975
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Updates can ALWAYS be found on Paradise Cove BBS at:
302-436-4780 * USRobotics HST 14.4k * 24hrs
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DISCLAIMER:
Greg Parsons will not be liable for any damage that may result
from the use of this program. This program comes with NO WARRANTY
written or implied. Use this program at your own risk.
***
ProDoor is Copyrighted by Samuel H. Smith
ProKit is a product of Samuel H. Smith
***
GETTING STARTED
Modify the ENDLESS.CNF file to suit your needs.
Line 1: INTERRUPT INTERRUPT
Line 2: Topic You Want Displayed For Story. Write On Me, I'm An Endless Story
Line 3: DOS path and Filename For Story. C:\ENDLESS\STORY1
Line 4: SysOp's Report Path and Filename. C:\ENDLESS\ENDLESS.RPT
Line 5: Make Entries To CALLERx File? (Y/N) Y
Line 6: SysOp's Name. Greg Parsons
Line 7: BBS Name. Paradise Cove
Copy ENDLESS.EXE into a directory which is in your path.
Create a door batch file for each node.
ENDLESS
CD\PCB\DOORS\ENDLESS
ENDLESS.EXE ENDLESS.CNF C:\PCB1
BOARD1 (or EXIT in Shell Mode)
The first line must contain three entries in the exact order shown. The
first entry must be the program name (and path if it is not in a
directory in your path). The second entry must be the path and name of the
configuration file, and the third entry must be the path to the
PCBOARD.SYS file. The fourth entry, LOCAL, is optional, and may be used
to run the door from the command line.
The second line must either be the command to restart PCBoard for that
node, or EXIT if the door is a "Shelled" door.
Add the door entry to your DOORS.DAT file by going into PCBSETUP.
Select "J" Main Board Configuration. Cursor down to Doors, (about 5
lines from the bottom). Highlight your DOORS.DAT file and press F2.
Make the following entries:
USER DOOR
Filename Password Sec Login SYS SYS Shell Path to DOOR Files
1 ENDLESS 5 N N N N
2
3
Note. Shell may be set to "S" if you have sufficient memory availablle.
If Shell is "S", then replace "BOARD1" with "EXIT" on the second line of
your ENDLESS file. Shelled doors are seamless to PCBoard.
Don't forget to add the door to your doors list and tell your users
about it. It can be a lot of fun.
Revision History ----------------
06-12-92
Initial Coding.
Released as: ENDLS100.ZIP
06-13-92
All around bug fix. Changed prompt handling. Now an option to add
a line to the story after you read it. User remains in the door until
he/she "Q"uits back to BBS or "G"oodbye. New option to logoff from
the menu. Support for optional CALLERx entries telling you whether
he/she actually added something to the story.
**** CONFIG FILE CHANGE FOR THIS RELEASE **** See included .CNF ****
Thanks Bill Walsh.
Released as: ENDLS101.ZIP
06-14-92
Default answer in "Would You Like To Add A Line ?" changed from
(Enter=yes) to (Enter=no) due to lines being added accidentally.
Changed from ANSI color codes to PCBoard's @X color macros.
Fixed problem where ANSI was being added to the story's output file.
Should now work with all terminals without causing color-reset problems.
Released as: ENDLS102.ZIP