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ILQ 2.0
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THE NEXT GENERATION SOFTWARE
Production
Rémy Gendron
STARFLEET COMMAND BBS
(418) 525-6899
(418) 525-4740
(418) 525-6803
1:240/1701
May 11th, 1992
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WELCOME
Hi everyone. How's life ?
Ok, here we go again, with one little, simple, any BBS utility.
ILQ, wich stands for 'Interesting Logon Quotes', will read a
quote file and produce an ANSI file for display by your BBS.
This treasure of a program is, as always, completely free. ;-)
It does not requier any kind of registration. You cannot however
modify in any way the original archive or files. If you do, a
spell will be cast upon you, that will alter the behavior of the
McFee's virus scanner. As a result, it will no longer search for
a thousand viruses, but instead will toss every one of them into
your system... Say, you wouln't want that, wouln't you ? (Of
course, it's a joke...)
I do not offer any kind of warranty. If you ever decide to use
ILQ, well, you do it on your own. If it breaks anything, you can
keep the broken parts. If that makes you feel any better, I've
been using it for the past 15 minutes without any damage to my
house. ;-)
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FULL ARCHIVE
The following files are in ILQ20.ZIP:
- ILQ.EXE The main program.
- TOSQUOTE.CFG Sample config file.
- TOSQUOTE.QTE Sample Quote file.
- TOSQUOTE.IDX Index file.
- TOSQUOTE.ANS Sample ANSI quote file.
- SYSOP.DOC Your reading it.
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USAGE OF ...
As a fellow SysOp, I know that a short and sweet documentation is
necessary to our mental health. Again, a recent scientific study
has shown that 9 out of 10 SysOp try to use a program without
reading the docs... Please read on, it's for your own good !
The quote file
The quote file is a simple ASCII text file. Quotes can be
entered in any format. However, they must be separated by a
special character. This character is user selectable, but must
be in column 1 of the separating line. You must put this special
character on a line by itself AFTER each quote in the file.
Don't start the file with this character or you first quote will
be blank.
The quotes can be as big as you want. But only the first 78
characters of each line are taken in account. And only the first
20 lines of the quote will be displayed.
If each quote's line starts in column 1, you will be able to use
the auto centering function. So I suggest that you left justify
all your quotes.
The quote file can be as big as you want. However, only the
first 32767 quotes will be available. (That should be enough !)
The quote file's name can be anything you want. You select the
quote file you want to work on in the configuration file. I
suggest you use the extension .QTE for your quote file.
See the sample STAR TREK QUOTE FILE for an example on how to
setup your quote file.
The configuration file
The configuration file is where you instruct ILQ.EXE what to do.
When you run ILQ.EXE, it looks in the current directory for the
file ILQ.CFG. If you want to use another configuration file, or
if ILQ.CFG is in another directory, you must give the full path
and name to the file. (Ex: ILQ.EXE TOSQUOTE.CFG)
The config file can be called as you wish. I suggest you use the
extension .CFG for you config files.
Edit your config files using the sample TOSQUOTE.CFG as an
example. You must give your choice of colors and the name of the
output file. To allow customisation of the output file, you must
give the path to 2 files. One will be appended before the actual
quote, the other after. See the HEADER.ANS and FOOTER.ANS sample
files. You could use THEDRAW to make those. You must indicate
wich character is used as a separator beetween quotes. You can
also ask ILQ to center you quotes and randomize them. You must
give your display screen height. ILQ will verticaly center your
quotes.
Running ILQ.EXE
It may be run from any directory. You must give the path to your
config file. ILQ will read the index file to choose the
apropriate quote. If it is the first run, it will count the
quotes in your quote file and create the index file. ILQ will
then get a quote from the quote file and write a REALLY GOOD
LOOKING ANSI file with it.
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THANKS AND OTHER STUFF
Any comments are appreciated. You can send me netmail, but I
really prefer the QUICKBBS echo.
STARFLEET COMMAND BBS
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So, that's it folks ! :-).
Rémy Gendron
TNG SOFT
SysOp
STARFLEET COMMAND BBS