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╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
║ The Quote of The Day Version 4.55 ║
║ Copyright (c) 1990-1992 by Cal Gardner ║
║ All Rights Reserved ║
╟─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ Released: Sunday, June 14th, 1992. Number of Quotes Avail: 3196 ║
║ **Please scan files for viruses before use! Just a safety precaution** ║
╙─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╜
╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
║ TQOTD Disclaimer and Registration Information ║
╙─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╜
TQOTD is provided on an "as is" basis, without any warranty of any kind.
I, Cal Gardner, do not warrant, guarentee or make any representations
regarding the use of, or the results of TQOTD. I am also, in no way
possible, responsible for any damages sustained either directly, or
indirectly from the use of TQOTD
A registration form is included in this package. You are required to
register this after 31 days of use. This is a shareware product, but please
support the shareware aspect. Registration is only $5.00 so I am not asking
alot. It has been many late nights writing TQOTD and this way I know my
program is being appreciated.
╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
║ What is TQOTD you say? ║
╙─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╜
TQOTD will pull quotes from a normal everyday ASCII text file and place
them nice and neat in an ANSI, ASCII and AVATAR file. You do have the
ability to add your own quotes, plus TQOTD will display the quotes in
sequential or random order with great speed. We currently offer over 3000
quotes with more available for download/file requesting..
╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
║ Configuration File for TQOTD ║
╙─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╜
A sample configuration file has been included within the TQOTD archive for
your viewings. TQOTD requires a configuration file by the name of TQOTD.CFG
and will not run without this file. You can create this with MS-DOS's Edlin
or any other ASCII Editor (Norton, PC-Tools, Etc). All lines will be
described as to what they do after the example below:
Line 01: Your BBS Name eg: Air Waves SuperBBS
Line 02: Your Name eg: Cal Gardner
Line 03: Path to Ansi File eg: \Superbbs\text\Tqotd.Ans
Line 04: Path to Ascii File eg: \Superbbs\text\Tqotd.Asc
Line 05: Path to Avatar File eg: \Superbbs\text\Tqotd.Avt
Line 06: Path to TQOTD.BBS eg: \superbbs\tqotd
Line 07: Place SuperBBS Pause at end eg: Y
Line 08: Enter Prompt eg: Press Enter To Continue
Line 09: Place of Enter Prompt eg: R
Line 10: Colour of Quote Text eg: 14
Line 11: Colour of QuoteEnd Line eg: 15
Line 12: Colour of Enter Prompt eg: 11
Line 13: Number of quotes in TQOTD.BBS eg: 2800
Line 14: Use random quoting eg: N
Place of Enter Prompt Options: L'eft, R'ight, C'entered
╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
║ Running TQOTD On your BBS System ║
╙─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╜
An example batch file for SuperBBS/QuickBBS Systems:
:Start
BBS
:AfterBBS
If Errorlevel 90 goto CBV
If Errorlevel 5 goto Packmail
If Errorlevel 4 goto Packmail
If Errorlevel 3 goto Packmail
If Errorlevel 1 goto End
:Tqotd
Cd\BBS\Tqotd
REM Add a /M to the line below if your monitor is Monochrome
Tqotd
Goto Start
:End
TQOTD can be run on ANY BBS system known. It just requires a bit of playing
and you've got the greatest Quote generator working on your BBS.
TQOTD has been tested once again. On my 386/20 MHz machine, it could
read quote 8000 and be finished in less than 8 seconds. Pretty fast eh?
╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
║ Additional Quotes available!!! ║
╙─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╜
Yes! Some new quotes have been brought in courtesy of a few SysOps in
Canada and the US. The files can be freqed from me. So far none of the
systems have these files (I am sure they will before long):
Filename Description Size Quotes
------------ ---------------------------------- ------- ------
STQUOTES.ARJ Quotes from Star Trek 23,115 0401
T_QUOTES.ARJ More quotes, and I mean MORE! 100,156 2414
TQDB.ARJ A massive collection of Quotes. 409,763 10739
FREQ: TQDB *NOT ON BBS*
To add these, just use the dos COPY command.
Example: COPY TQOTD.BBS + STQUOTES.BBS T.BBS
COPY T.BBS TQOTD.BBS
DEL T.BBS
DEL STQUOTES.BBS
╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
║ Other Information and the History of TQOTD ║
╙─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╜
If you have any questions pertaining to TQOTD or any other inquiries, you
may contact me via the following:
BBS:
Air Waves SuperBBS HST
1200-9600 Bps/HST/MNP
(416) 984-4076
FidoNet: 1:247/117
SIGnet: 34:4416/0
SnailMAIL:
Cal Gardner
92 Green Maple Drive
ST. CATHARINES, Ontario
Canada, L2P 3P5
* History:
1.00 - First ever version. Written in TP 3.0a
1.50 - Ansi Emulation added, touch up on speed
2.00 - Ansi bug fixed, buffered quote file, added top header
2.05 - More bugs fixed. Removed annoying 30 day trial key
3.00 - Major re-write. TP 5.0. Nice colours, better Monochrome support
3.25 - More features added. Random quoting, fixing of header
3.50 - Re-wrote the accessing of the quote file for slower XT systems
3.75 - Re-release of 3.50
3.76 - Re-release of 3.75
4.00 - Major re-write - Beatiful loadup screens
4.05 - Fixed bug where Tqotd will read quote file and write the ansi file
until you ran out of hardrive space.
4.10 - Rewrote top header, removed all beeps, bells and whistles. Added
200 more quotes. Quote file now fully loaded into memory while
being read. Registration optional. Removal of random quoting
until 4.15 (If released). Removed other BBS Support until next
version. More to come
4.15 - Added Option for Rotating Red/Blue lines
Added option for Ctrl-A, enter at end of output files
Speeded up quote reading, much faster now.
No longer limited to 500 quotes. Accepts up to 1000.
Configurable enter prompt.
4.20 - Added option to reset quote at sysop definable point.
Fix up a very small bug in the quote file.
Added the option for Random Quote selection as well as
sequential quoting.
Fixed a MAJOR bug in the reading of the quote file while it
was searching for the quote. I left this out from version 4.00 for
some reason. I was not searching for the end of the TQOTD.BBS file
so it could reset counters. Instead when quote 609 was reached, it
would only read nuls. It's fixed now. It will reset to quote 1
if sequential reading is enabled, or will just read quote 1 when
random quoting is enabled.
4.21 - Minor bug fix on EOF reading in 4.20. 200+ Quotes Added.
4.25 - Added Monochrome support (Learned borders, backgrounds didn't
appear like they should have). This can be enabled by adding a
/M or /m to the command line. Added definable colour in the
configuration file for the lines for the quote. Removed
"Rotating Lines" option. Another minor Random Quote bug was
Fixed.
4.26 - Fixed a major bug in reading of quote files. Read for ever and
never displayed the quote for some configurations. Moved the
header over 1 coloumn to allow quotes with lengths of 80 characters.
4.27 - Fixed a Boo-boo. The ASCII header was coming out with a few too
many linefeeds at the end.
4.30 - Dah! Another boo-boo fixed. Enhanced speed with extended
quote file buffering. Tqotd has also been compressed.
4.40 - Added in Avatar (+0) Support for those of you who can support
and use it. A few cosmetic changes were I made some typos.
4.41 - Added a clear screen in the Avatar file. Update.
4.45 - Allowed configuration of the lines between the header and the
quote and between the Enter Prompt the quote.
4.46 - This version is not compressed with LZE. Some strange things
seems to occur when it was compressed. Fixed a buffer overflow
bug.
4.50 - Removed the BBS advertising in the output files. A major redoing
of the SysOp's end of the screen. Also cleaned up the code a bit.
If the enter prompt line is blank, it will not default to a preset
enter prompt. This was done for TAG systems.
4.51 - Forgot to take out the detecting for Registered SysOps for the
Beta versions
4.55 - Really screwed up in 4.50. For unregistered sysops, the colour
definitions were missing. The positioning of the text in the
header was also off. This has been fixed. Added in code to
disallow any HEX editing of TQOTD after finding a toyed with
version on another BBS. Added in a delay for unregistered
versions.
╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
║ TQOTD Support Systems ║
╙─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╜
Canada:
Air Waves SuperBBS HST St. Catharines, ON, Canada +1-416-984-4076
USR 9600 Bps FidoNet 1:247/117
Send Registrations Here
Maxwell's Argentum Hammer Brockville, ON, Canada +1-613-345-0486
USR DS 14.4 KBps, v42b FidoNet 1:249/306
United States:
Lighthouse BBS Valparaiso, Indiana +1-219-464-2443
14440 BPS v32b/v42b FidoNet 1:230/20
Magicland SuperBBS Applegate, Wisconsin, USA +1-414-733-3882
USR 14.4 KBps, v42b FidoNet 1:139/650
The Armadillo's Hole San Angelo, Texas, USA +1-915-949-6496
2400 Bps FidoNet 1:383/12
Australia:
Cross Beat BBS Macquarie Fields NSW, Australia +61-2-605-9483
14400 BPS v32b/v42b/PEP FidoNet 3:713/611
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