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Updates to the GTRUNPCB Package
December 24, 1988:
First official release of the GTRUNPCB programs, which included
MAKE_DAT (to make the PCBOARD.DAT file) and MAKE_SYS (to make the
PCBOARD.SYS file). Both work with PCBoard version 12.1 and 14.0
file formats.
April 14, 1989:
A minor change was made by Clark Development Co. to the header of the
version 14.0 format PCBOARD.DAT file. This has been 'fixed' in my
MAKE_DAT program which generates that file.
This date marks the first official release of MAKE_USR, which generates
and maintains the PCBoard file USERS, both for version 12.1 and 14.0
formats. It wasn't included in the initial release package because it
wasn't done by then, and I wanted to get the others 'out the door' while I
worked on this one.
April 15, 1989:
Well, that didn't last long... In the course of setting up one of the
doors I wanted to run, I found something that needed to be changed.
MAKE_USR did what it was supposed to do, but I didn't think of what this
one particular door might want to have done. Now, not only will it
create the USERS file, adding new entries as it goes along, it also
updates certain fields in existing entries to keep them up-to-date on
logon dates, etc. Now, ProDoor will work properly with this thing!
April 24, 1989:
Some more minor changes were done to MAKE_USR, and I believe it's in
it's final version, now. It found out PCBoard is backwards in the way
it defines the user's conference registrations, so I had it setting the
user's registration to area #7, instead of area #0 (Main) by default.
It's fixed now. I also now have it update the user's daily download
byte status, so now when running something like ProDoor, when a new day
rolls around, his download byte info is reset to the new day's limit of
one megabyte (my 'default'). Otherwise, it would just build up until
there was no more.
Also, I misinterpreted that data field's meaning at first, thinking that
was his 'limit' for any one day. Instead it was supposed to measure how
much he's downloaded so far, so a user would've gotten a message saying
he's already downloaded up to his limit for the day, even if he didn't
download at ALL in that door!
Added a new feature to MAKE_SYS, for use with PCBoard ver. 14.0 format
.SYS files, to allow the use of an '/n' switch, which will accept a node
number on multi-node systems (for use with the new multi-node compatible
GT 15.00). After the node number, and separated with a colon, may be
either an 'A' or a 'U' to indicate to PCBoard doors that use 'node
chatting' functions that this node is either 'available' or
'unavailable' for chatting. An example might be:
MAKE_SYS /v:14 /n:1:a
which would mean node 1 is 'available' for node chatting.