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Whatsnew? v3.32 Copyright (c) 1991, 1992 David Sward Released in
A utility for Searchlight BBS v2.15+ June 1992
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Purpose: The purpose of this program is to give the user a concise listing
of any new messages, bulletins and files available on the BBS
since the users last call.
Warranty: There is no warranty. It's free, what do you want for nothing?!?
Registration: This program is Freeware. No registration is required or asked
for. However, if you do use this program, please tell me.
Usage: Whatsnew [path to CONFIG.SL2] [toggles] to run the program, or
Whatsnew ? for usage help.
Toggles: The toggles are used to modify the default behavior of the
program. The toggles are:
/1 Initial more prompt Default no
/C Clear the screen YES
/T Display the five title lines YES
/M Page-break more prompts YES
/N Personal message number display YES
/E Scanning of mailbox no
/LE Listing of new mail no
/S Scanning of the subboards YES
/LS Listing of personal messages no
/B Scanning of the bulletins YES
/LB Listing of new bulletins no
/D Scanning of the directories YES
/LD Listing of new files no
/LX Listing of extended descriptions no
/I Ignore files with dates after today no
/L Toggles /LE, /LS, /LB, /LD and /LX ---
/2 Final more prompt no
Explanation: The /L and /I toggles.
The /L toggle (including /Lx) determine whether or not Whatsnew
will list the new messages/files with a display like
Searchlight's Scan/Files displays. Note: The /Lx toggle is only
effective IF and only if the corresponding area is scanned. So
the toggle string /SLS will still skip the subboards, while
/LS will scan and will list new personal messages. Also, if you
want to toggle all /L switches, you cannot put another toggle
after /L; it must be the last toggle with the current "/". So
to list all except the bulletins you can use "/L /LB".
The /I toggle will not count/display files with dates in the
future. This is so Whatsnew will not count Allfiles-type files
which have dates set at 12-31-99 or such.
This may be confusing, so feel free to contact me with your
questions. For how to contact me, read the section "Author".
Examples: C:\BBS>Whatsnew C:\BBS2 /12
This will read from the CONFIG.SL2 in C:\BBS2 with both the
initial and final more prompts.
C:\BBS>Whatsnew /1BI
This will use the initial more prompt and will skip the
bulletins, using the config in C:\BBS, and will skip all files
with dates after today.
C:\BBS>Whatsnew /12ELE
This will use the initial and final more prompts as well as
scanning and listing new personal email.
C:\BBS>Whatsnew ?
This will show the usage text.
History: Ver Date Comments
2.2- Aug 91 Old versions; old news.
3.0 Jun 92 Found the source! Changed to use the Programmer's
Library instead of my own routines, should be
better; now tells the user the number of personal
messages in the sub; pluralization.
3.1 Jun 92 Finally fixed the damn files date bug (thanks to
Richard Lis).
3.2 Jun 92 Local testing. Felt the new features warranted an
additional version number increase.
3.3 Jun 92 Added the /C, /T, /I and the /L family of switches.
Added the support for personal email scanning (/E)
(suggested by Dan Peck). Consolidated source to one
file. Added time slice releasing to better support
multitasking.
Author: Written by David Sward. For general questions about Whatsnew you
can contact me on the Fidonet SEARCHLIGHT echo. My email
addresses follow:
BBS: Mail DAVID SWARD on the Pleasure Palace BBS (Sysop
Barry Dowell). 301-627-4953, 14.4k HST/V32.
Fidonet: 1:109/70.871
Internet: dsa3@andrew.cmu.edu or sward@cmu.edu
During May-August and December-January send mail to my Fidonet
address. The rest of the year send mail to my Internet account.