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░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ Lost Menu the Sysop's Friend ░░░░░
FREEWARE for the People 05/20/92
Lost Menu By John C Kleinbauer
15 Fisher Place
North Arlington, N.J. 07031
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╨─────┘ ╙──┘ ╙──┘ ╨ ╨ ╨ ┴ ╨──┘ ╨ ╙─┘ ╙──┘ Version 2.20
A Simple Integral Menu System for PCBoard
Documentation By John C Kleinbauer
The Free For All B.B.S.
North Arlington,N.J.
1-201-998-7337 ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░
How many times have you dropped to DOS on your BBS to use
your favorite utility but then forgot the batch file name or
the directory to call it from? Tired of having to type BOARD
to reload the B.B.S.? Then read on....
The TRICK of this program is a program called PCBMONI, This
is not the one that comes with PCBoard but a replacement that will
allow you to use your favorite MENU program or use the one that
is supplied. PCBoard is hard wired to call PCBMONI.EXE so making
a batch file called PCBMONI or PCBMONI.BAT will not work.
<<<< How it all works >>>>
PCBoard comes with a program called PCBMONI it is accessible
from the call waiting screen. PCBMONI is of no use to the single
node BBS but can be expanded to contain a menu system. Thus the
name LOST MENU. PCBMONI is not eliminated but instead is added to
a list of your favorite utilities that can be called from the MENU.
<<<< Operation >>>>
At the Call Waiting screen select PCBMONI hit enter. A menu
will now appear, select the utility you want then hit ESC when
you are done with the utility and the Menu screen will appear select
an other utility or Reload the BBS.
<<<< Installing You Favorite Menu Program >>>>
1. Rename PCBMONI.EXE to MONIOLD.EXE
2. Put the new PCBMONI.EXE (The one in this package) in your
PCB directory.
3. Make a batch file that calls up your favorite Menu Program.
4. Name the batch file that calls up your Menu Program "MONI.BAT"
this is the file that the new PCBMONI calls.
5. Setup your Menu Program with paths and executable names.
6. If Your Menu gives you any problems go with My Method.
<<<< My Method >>>
1. Rename PCBMONI.EXE to MONIOLD.EXE
2. Put the new PCBMONI.EXE (The one in this package) in your
PCB directory.
3. Edit the MONI.BAT I have included in this package. Recheck
your paths and names of programs that you are going to use.
4. Add the program PAUZ to your path. (This program returns DOS
ERRORLEVELs to the batch file to allow branching, it also
allows you time to make your choice).
5. You are allowed up to Nine choices on the menu. (1-9 but you
must add them.) and add " ERRORLEVEL==X GOTO UTILX "(X=NUMBER)
to the batch file to cause it to branch.
<<<< Testing and Troubleshooting >>>>
Run MONI.BAT from the DOS line first to make sure all
paths and switches are correct. Then add it to your PCB directory
along with the new PCBMONI.EXE.
<<<< Technical aspects for the curious >>>>
The new PCBMONI.EXE is no more that a compiled batch file
that says.......
ECHO OFF
CLS
MONI.BAT
I used PC Magazine's BAT2EXEC, then I renamed my batch file
PCBMONI.EXE. The compiled batch file must be named PCBMONI.EXE or
PCBoard will not see it. You can not compile MONI.BAT because the
ERRORLEVELs in the batch file will not work at all.
<<<< Adding more than nine choices >>>>
Please note in this version I added MONI2.BAT this is the
batch file I use on my B.B.S. Look MONI2.BAT over notice that you
can make each of the choices in the first MENU call up a different
menu. This scheme should allow over fifty separate utilities to
be called up quickly without dropping to DOS.
<<<< Going further >>>>
If you would like a color menu just use a program like
THE DRAW to create a self displaying ANSI picture that is called
from the batch file.
<<<< Thanks to the following people >>>>
To Br.Bill Leaming of Vocation Central BBS 1-201-643-7851
for explaining how to replace PCBMONI to run a utility program.
To Bob Eyer of Toronto Canada for writing PAUZ and releasing
it as FREEWARE.
Good Luck
John C Kleinbauer