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BETA TESTER INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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Important Information: 1) Backup first
2) You will need to upgrade your PCBTEXT files
3) You will need to modify your event processing
4) You will need a valid work directory
5) Your system *may* need to maintain old index files
Details for the items 2 through 5, above, will be outlined below. They have
been mentioned here just to make sure you are aware of them before proceeding.
Installation instructions:
1) Make sure you run BOARD.BAT at least once. That way any SET commands
that are in your board.bat file will be executed and put into the
environment. PCBSetup will use your previous SET PCB= settings to
help you configure v15.0 correctly.
NOTE: This step will be required on EACH NODE that you convert.
2) Make sure all nodes are down at this point.
3) Go to one of your \PCB directories (where you run PCBoard) and type
PCBSETUP. If desired, you can simply load, exit and save. You're done
converting pcboard.dat and creating a new file called cnames.add at this
point.
4) Go to where your PCBTEXT files are stored. Run FIXTEXT on each of your
PCBTEXT files. You can automate it like this:
for %1 in (pcbtext.*) do fixtext %1 > nul
NOTE: You may want to save a backup of your PCBTEXT file. There are a
number of records in that file which will be replaced with new records.
As much effort as possible has been put into preserving your EXISTING
customizations, however, some records will simply have to be re-customized.
You could take a sample PCBTEXT file and type FIXTEXT PCBTEXT > CHANGES and
then look at the contents of the CHANGES file to see what all has been
done to your PCBTEXT file.
5) Go back to the \PCB directory and type:
PCBPACK /AREA:ALL /INDEX
The above step need be done only once for the system. You do not need
to repeat this command for each node.
In this step, PCBPACK is creating some new index files which v15.0 uses
to speed up access to the message base.
6) EVENT CHANGES:
Edit your BOARD.BAT file and REMOVE the line that says:
if exist event.bat rename event.bat event.sys
Do _NOT_ remove the line that EXECUTES your event.bat file.
PCBoard no longer runs the event by renaming event.sys. It now works more
like a door by copying your event file(s) to EVENT.BAT and then, when done,
PCBoard *itself* will remove the event.bat file - at the same time it will
record in the callers log that the event is done.
RECOMMENDATION:
Copy your EVENT.SYS file to your MAIN subdirectory changing its name to
something like MAINEVNT (without an extension).
Now run PCBSetup. Go to the EVENT screen and press F2 on the EVENT.DAT
file. Enter the information as follows, setting the time appropriately
for your system:
Batch Begin End Last Days
Act Mod File Time Time Date Date SMTWTFS Node
═══ ═══ ════════ ═════ ═════ ════════ ════════ ═══════ ═════
1) Y E MAINEVNT 02:00 02:15 YYYYYYY 0
In the example above, PCBoard will copy MAINEVNT to the EVENT.BAT file at
02:00 and then exit and run EVENT.BAT. See the WHATSNEW file for further
details on the changes and capabilities of the event system.
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PLEASE READ EVENT.DOC FOR FURTHER DETAILS
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7) Delete your USERNET.XXX file. PCBoard will recreate it.
8) Edit your board.bat file and where it says PCB145, change it to PCBOARD.
9) If you are using any kind of NETMAIL or offline mail reader - programs
which access the message base - then you should edit your BOARD.BAT file
and change the "SET PCB=" line. Add to it the word /OLDINDEX.
This change tells PCBoard to maintain both the old and the new index
files. If you are not using any kind of offline mail reader, if you have
chosen to use only PCBoard v15.0's built-in QWK capability, if you are
not using any netmail software, then you do NOT need to use /OLDINDEX and
can save disk space by not using it.
In addition, you will need to modify your PCBPACK processing adding the
word /OLDINDEX on the command line. For example:
PCBPACK /AREA:ALL /DAY:30 /OLDINDEX
This will allow PCBPACK to perform the pack, as usual, and update the
OLD index files at the same time.
At this point you may now bring the system back up.
Feel free to play with PCBSetup. It will help you explore some of the new
features in PCBoard until we can get some documentation going. Also, of
tremendous help (until more documentation comes along) will be the WHATSNEW
file. Please take the time to read it. It will save everyone time and it
will let you get the most out of the v15.0 software.
It is important that everyone understand that the "feature set" of v15.0 is
frozen. There will be no NEW features added to v15.0 during the beta cycle.
However, due to the *many* additions that have already been made, there may
be certain areas of the code which require enhancements to "smooth out the
rough edges".
Please hold your wishlist items for the next release of PCBoard. Or...
understand when we simply capture them and do not put them into version 15.0
that this is being done on purpose in order to get the software out the door
and available to everyone as quickly as possible.
WARNING
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You must set a valid Work Directory, something other than the 'current
directory' since the QWK command expects the work directory to contain the
*.DAT and *.NDX files that go into creating a QWK packet. Also, the name of
the file must be set in PCBSetup : Configuration Options : Messages "Name of
capture file".
WARNING
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All versions of PCBoard are now OVERLAID and that means that the executable
contains overlays inside of it. In order to avoid getting sharing violations
when attempting to share one pcboard.exe file amongst multiple nodes, you must
set the pcboard.exe to read only. Example:
ATTRIB +R PCBOARD.EXE