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MAXFREQ v1.0 (c) John Medland - PHOTO 334 BBS! (416) 539-9591 - Fido 1:250/840
MAXIMUS File Requester for Offline Files.
HISTORY
This program had it's beginning in a program called FREQUEST which
was a combination file requester and bulletin board for wanted files.
Users were confused about the bulletin board part of FREQUEST so I've
separated the two ideas into different programs. MAXFREQ is a straight
ahead request to SysOp for an Offline file. The bulletin board for wanted
files is now called THE WANTED LIST and is a simple wish list of files
that people are searching for.
*REQUIRED FILE
For MAXFREQ to work properly you MUST have a program called MAKEMSG.EXE
(MKMSG21.ZIP) in your path. This is required to send a message to the
person requesting the offline file from you, to tell them that the file
is now online or to explain why it hasn't been put online.
SUPPLIED FILES
You should have received the following files:
REQADD BBS 263 12-21-92 3:42p
REQEDIT BAT 7 12-21-92 12:12a
REQMM BBS 231 12-21-92 12:10a
REQREAD BBS 335 12-21-92 1:53a
REQUESTR BBS 1927 12-21-92 1:21p
REQUESTR DOC 2837 12-21-92 3:58p
REQUNPK BAT 983 12-21-92 1:40a
INSTALLATION
Place all of the files in your C:\Max\Misc directory.
Edit REQEDIT.BAT and replace "Q" with the name of the text editor you use.
No change is required if you are using QEdit.
Edit your MENUS.CTL file and add this line:
Display_File misc\requestr Normal "Request a file"
If you are adding this option to your FILES menu, you may want to
change the "Raw Directory" choice to "Entire Directory" so that the
"R" can be used by MAXFREQ. It's up to you.
Edit your MSGAREA.CTL file to create a message area C:\MAX\MSG\PRIVATE
which is were your messages will be sent when responding to requests.
If you like, you can edit the file REQUNPK.BAT to run any programs you
have which help you to put files online (converters, scannners etc.) or
simply use it to run command.com when putting files online.
PROBLEMS
You may run into some problems if you run SHARE.EXE. This is presumably
caused by open files and I don't know how to solve this problem (sorry).
ALSO, note that this program toggles your F key so if you are using keys
in your MAXIMUS setup, you will probably have a conflict with the F key.
GUARANTEES
Absolutely None.
REGISTRATION FEE
None, but donations are graciously accepted.