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08 Mar 92 - v2.10
Just watched some bonehead try and UL a file named --AAPLAY.ZIP and
it irritated me... I've already got that file in the xfer section,
and it irked me the user was trying to get around the UL credit thing
by changing the name silghtly... SO! EP already had a bunch of things
excluded from using in an xfer filename, so I just made it look at the
FIRST LETTER of the filename and if it was less than a A or greater than
a Z it gives the user a note saying:
UL's beginning with a "x" are not allowed!!!! Start again!
You can insert whatever char not fitting the params in for the x...
Sometimes I just get bitchy... Sorry! :) [not really:)]
Just did a TINY little bit of cosmetics to the XFER, UL and VIEWZIP
sections: not so many carraige returns after exiting GSZ...
06 Mar 92 - v2.10
I FOUND IT! Not sure WHY, (I've looked over the ENTIRE code) but the
program when it shelled to DSZ/GSZ would manage to loose the baud
rate (cfg$(8)) and ended up coming back with xfe$(7), or at LEAST the
LABEL for xfe$(7): I.E.
Line 2 ===>:
Don't know WHY, since there's NOTHING there that SHOULD cause it, but
since the program was attempting to reset the baud rate after a DL/UL
before I changed that to simply a carrier detect check, it would be
TRYING to set the baud rate to Line 2 ===>:
That doesn't work... :)
Now the prog writes a little file called BAUD.DAT every time a user
logs on and after returning from the shell to GSZ/DSZ, it reads that
file... All it is is the baud rate... PERIOD...
Did a MINOR mod to the EBBSPLUS module that sends Guest User to the
section that displays the New User Logon Message (NULOM or NULOM.ANS)...
MINOR MOD!
04 Mar 92 - v2.09
After several tries at fixing that damned prollem, it would APPEAR the
prob is FINALLY fixed... Have had the system up and running now for 3
days and NO ERRORS AT ALL!
While I was dinkin with the xfer section, I also made it so if you are
using GSZ, you can now see who is DL'in or UL'in... Just make sure and
add to your EBBS.BAT file the following:
SET GSZWINDOW=24
and that will shorten GSZ's screen display by 1 line.. You loose the
'frame shadow', but personally, I think it's WELL worthwhile!
So, my EBBS.BAT file now reads:
C:
cd\
cd ebbs
set dszlog=C:\EBBS\DSZ.LOG
set gszwindow=24
set comspec=C:\COMMAND.COM
ebbsplus.exe
Otay?
IMPORTANT NEWS! If you are trying to make EBBS Plus work on an internal
modem and can't seem to get things to click, one Plus sysop suggests this
init string:
ATV0 M0 Q0 E0 S0=1 S7=D0 X4|~~~
He's been using this for several years now with no probs...
Also, if you discover you have probs getting connects with 300 or 1200
baud, check the S0= number. If you have it set to 0, change it to a 1
and it should work fine...
01 Mar 92 - v2.08
Still having troubles with the Xfer section giving Division by 0 errors
and Error #62 and #5's... Dunno what that is all about: appears to be
REAL sporatic and only if you happen to do such and such because I can't
recreate it at all! I DID change a few minor little things there and
the prollem hasn't reoccurred, so I MAY have squashed it... (Hoping!)
29 Feb 92 - v2.07
Was having troubles with the xfer ratio... Did a fix and it in turn
caused ANOTHER prollem... A user with more than a ratio of 32 caused
the system to crash... Reason being that ratio (the variable name) was
just an integer... Didn't have the ! behind it and was stuck with a
MAX of 32767 and the way the new xfer ratio is set up, it reads in whatever
number you stick in the userfile and multiplies that by 1024: hence the
max of 32... Oh well, it's workin fine now...
REGISTERED ONLY:
Did a thing called Suggestion Box for the LAN version of Plus and decided
to add that to this version too... It is TOTALLY anonymous: the ONLY stamp
on it is the date for SOME kind of reference, but no time or user name.
It is ONLY viewable from the Sysop Viewer...
Also forgot to mention that the new batch UL mod means that you MUST have
GSZ or DSZ in the path somewhere. I have EBBS dir in the path so it was
never a prollem with me, but other Sysops have reported a prollem and
that was all it is... I do a change dir command before doing the UL to
the directory the UL is going to... Makes it SO much simpler and also
allows for a max of something like 8 UL files... (It's still at 5 tho)
27 Feb 92 - v2.06
Fixed minor bug with private UL's... They weren't deleting after a DL
26 Feb 92 - v2.05
In the Database, Doors, and Text Menu's, the default is simply the prompt
instead of automatically displaying the menu. ANY key NOT on the menu,
a RETURN, or question mark will display the menu, as with the rest of the
program...
REGISTERED ONLY:
Added a Graffitti Wall log and viewer option in the Sysop menu: when a
user writes something on the Wall, there was NO WAY to trace it before.
NOW, you have a record of who posted what.... Also cleaned up the
source for the viewer: it takes up a WHOLE lot less space than before...
Batch UL's weren't being added to the UL.LOG... Should be ok now...
One VERY important part: MAKE SURE DSZ or GSZ is in your PATH, not just in
your EBBS dir... In order to make the batch UL's work well, I used the
CHDIR (change dir) command and the prog is no longer doing it all from
the EBBS dir with complete paths for each file... Not enough string
space without the characters getting jumbled in the last file or so... I
had 4 test files I used and each was named TESTx.ZIP... I added
TEST1.ZIP, then TEST2.ZIP, etc, then when it called GSZ, the last char
in the filename TEST4.zip was THETA! The prog didn't like that much...
:)
Configurable Chat Call Times:
Just added this feature: Sysop can tell the system and user when they
are available right in the PLUSCFG.DAT file. MAKE SURE TO USE 24 HOUR
TIME! The first number is the low time and the second the high time:
I.E. if you want to be available from 8am to 10pm, then set the times
like this:
08:00 22:00
The 0 preceeding the 8am time isn't necessary... I don't see how it
would work if you wanted to config it so the times available were from
11pm to 8am... At present, it ain't happening.... Maybe v3.0? :)
25 Feb 92 - v2.04
Fixed another xfer bug: this one dates back to the split off of the
zip viewer... Didn't really realize it was causing a prollem either!
Will take care of those nasty Error #62's and #5's...
24 Feb 92 - v2.03
Minor bug, or major, depending on your point of view... :) Found that
if you stuck a NO in the ChatPgeNum in the config file, it automatically
kicked the user offline instead of letting them page forever and a day!
Fixed now.... You can stick in a NO and it will work...
24 Feb 92 - v2.02
Keep having a Division by 0 error sometimes when someone DL's a single file.
I THINK it's now solved... :)
Also fixed a minor bug that when you opted to jump to the PRNTXFER section
and the config file said NO you DIDN'T want to automatically update the
xfer section DIRx.TXT file, the system denied you access to that section.
23 Feb 92 - v2.01
Found and fixed minor bug in the XFER module: first call of the day that
did a DL would get a System Error #62 (Input past end of line) after a
DL... What happened was the system was reading the new DSZ log and was
looking for more than just a single entry in the DSZ.LOG and after midnight
the DSZ.LOG is wiped out and started afresh...
22 Feb 92 - v2.00 Beta
Now all you need do is take ANY of the Plus .EXE's offline WITH THE
EXCEPTION OF MAIN.EXE and EBBSPLUS.EXE and the system will call the
Bad Command prompt.
Call Back module will be available soon for REGISTERED versions..
v2.0 is now in Beta and available for DL and use: REGISTERED SYSOPS
can make use of the batch UL feature....
Found the bug in Sysop2 that Lonnie had mentioned.... Apparently when
you did a "Confirm Delete's?" it caused some rather unnerving stuph to
be displayed: like it didn't recognize the users name... It does now,
but that was the ONLY change I made... Ran it on my userfile (a backup
of course!:)) and it worked like a charm...
21 Feb 92 - v2.00 Alpha
Been a busy little bever today! Started and have the Alpha ver of the
Batch UL working.... It APPEARS to be pretty error free.. 5 files max
at the moment, but I COULD change that to up to 9 if we find that
necessary... Private UL's are excluded from batch UL's, BTW...
This mod is available ONLY to REGISTERED SYSOPS!
21 Feb 92
Dave Allen's fault this time... :) He doesn't like the CHAT.LOG
in the \MSGS directory, so PLUSCFG.DAT has a new field that allows
the user to define where they want the chat log....
Also added the Chat Log to the view Logs function... If you aren't local,
however, you MUST enter the system's password to view this: one of those
privacy things....
20 Feb 92
Brian Bettger's fault this time...:) Just added another module and did
mods to the Sysop, SysopB, and UL modules to accomadate this new mod,
as well as did another change to the PLUSCFG.DAT file: just added 5 new
fields (compare to yours and just edit it in: would be LOTS easier!)
This mod automatically updates a file in EACH xfer section called
DIRx.TXT. The x is whatever dir letter it's in... I.E., if it's in
the A directory, the filename would be DIRA.TXT. Every time there
is a file uploaded, the file is re-written, the size is noted, and
the XFERFILE.DAT is updated as well.. Also, for those of you that
mask UL's from view, it will automatically update the DIRx.TXT file
when you unmask the file when it is updating the users file data...
There is a module that also lets the Sysop update the file(s) at will
accessable from the Sysop menu... Hit P and you will get a prompt asking
what dir you want.... The ! is acceptable here: it will just update ALL
the directories then. After updating, (also updating the XFERFILE.DAT)
you return to the Sysop menu...
Automatically excluded from this file are all files masked with a !...
I.E. anything that is preceeded in the description with at LEAST one !..
That of course includes all private UL's as well...
THIS MOD IS FOR REGISTERED VERSIONS ONLY!
16 Feb 92
Split off the ViewZip routine into it's own module... XFER.BAS was
getting WAY too big...
Also added a line to the Read and Write file routines in the Sysop
section so it excludes mail beginning with 0000 (Sysop's mail)...
One of those security things...
15 Feb 92
Had a suggestion from Dave Allen that I mask E-Mail to the Sysop from
even the Co-Sysops... Just keep it totally private.... In the past,
it's been VERY beneficial for my co-sysops to be able to see my mail,
like when I was on vacation, when I had a bug (they could help me find
it), etc... SO! I made it Sysop Configgable. Next to the last line
in the PLUSCFG.DAT file... Just answer yes or no to the prompt and
the system will mask it ONLY if it sees a yes at that point... As with
all that stuph in the config file, it's NOT case-sensitive....
15 Feb 92
Added a new thingme to the Sysop menu.... Now you can view ALL the system
logs (other than the stats logs) directly from there... Also have added
a log for the Database, Doors, and Text Section so you can keep track of
WHO has been accessing those different files: even added a Search String
identifier to the Database section as well, so you can maybe get an
idea WHAT the users were looking for..... These features were added
so that those of you that are using the BBS for your business as well
can get a feel for what users are looking at what items... Good to for
the rest of us so we can keep track of what items are hot and what are
not... We can save a TON of disk space if there are Text files and
Database files and Doors that noone bothers with, or just one user
accesses time and again... The line limit on these logs is 500 lines...
That should be PLENTY for almost any research you are doing... Also, if
you want to keep a running record, simply copy the files over and delete
them from your harddrive. They are created again when the next user
trys them out...
Anywho, you can view the following from the Sysop Menu:
Caller Log
Database Log
DSZ Log
Doors Log
Text Section Log
Upload Log
UL/DL Log (aka XFER.LOG)
I felt that should just about cover it... Just got tired of jumpin all
over the BBS for those different logs: also nice to 'hide' in the Sysop
menu sometimes... :)
09 Feb 92
v1.96 is now out... I changed stuph in the config file: stuck the
xfer section all in it's own 'section' and the rest of the paths are
in their own section... Easy mod with a text editor to make your old
v1.95 version work with v1.96... Print out the PLUSCFG.DAT & PLUSCFG.TXT
files with the PRNCONFIG & PRNCFGTX progs and away ya go...
The MAIN reason for changing the config file was so there would be NO
confusion if the Sysop wished to run less than 15 xfer sections: there
would have been MAJOR conflicts otherwise...
09 Feb 92
Was 'showing off' my new Convert program to Glen and lo and behold, the
darned thing wasn't working right! Wrote a YES in the Xfer Ratio and
MaxTime sections... Woops... :) Works now...
09 Feb 92
Several people have mentioned a problem with using NNANSIN.SYS for
Plus... Here's the thing: if you are using CGA or Mono, you MUST use
ANSI.SYS! NNANSIN.SYS was made for EGA/VGA ONLY!
If you HAVE EGA/VGA and are STILL having trouble with NNANSIN, try
DVANSI.SYS as an alternative. EBBS and EBBS Plus both need a higher
speed ANSI driver than that provided with MS-DOS when running in the
EGA/VGA...
09 Feb 92
And yet ANOTHER mod for the guys at 'Waynes World BBS'.... THIS one
keeps track of the number of times a file in the text section is read...
It sticks the number at the end of each entry in the Plus-style text
menu... Please note: this does NOT work on anything but the Plus-style
menu!!!!
08 Feb 92
Another little mod suggested by the guys at 'Waynes World BBS' in Mogadore,
OH... This one allows the user to page only XX times before being
automatically logged off. Sysop defined: field #38 in the PLUSCFG.DAT
file... NO or NONE if you don't wish to make this happen... Will tell
the user they have XX number of pages before they will be hung up. Then
it tells them they've XX number of pages LEFT before they are logged off.
When they are down to the LAST page, it tells 'em 'One more time and you
will be logged off." THEN, when they've pushed past THAT number, it tells
'em that they were warned, then says G'bye and logs 'em off...
A bit DIFFERENT from what the boys at Waynes World wanted, but same end
result....
BTW, this mod is for Registered Sysops ONLY....
05 Feb 92
Included is a file called CONVERT... If the one you have isn't dated
05 Feb 92 or later, toss it! This one reads your USERFILE.DAT and
XFERFILE.DAT files and converts them to v1.95 Plus files... If they
ALREADY are the correct setup, it won't do a thing to them....
Word of caution! One of my beta testers is reporting problems with
the SYSOP2 module ([2] from the Sysop menu).... The other beta tester
and myself have no problems with the program. (It's for mass deletions)
USE WITH CAUTION! It WILL make a backup of the userfile, but you SHOULD
be cautious and PLEASE report any probs with the prog to me!
04 Feb 92
Couple MORE minor bug fixes... Also did a change of the config file to
PLUSCFG.DAT instead of EBBSCFG.DAT to help avoid confusion and drive
Lonnie nuts... :)
Also pulled the XFERSORT module... I'm not happy with it... IF it is
ok for you, go ahead, just be forwarned... It doesn't work 100%, and
until it does, I'm not gonna stick it in this archive, otay?
03 Feb 92
Just some minor bug fixes... FINALLY have a LOT of the ERROR #0 probs
fixed: When you would encounter an error in another module, it would TRY
and go back to the MAIN module to recover but all that did was generate
an Error #0 and crash completely... NOW, it just recovers to the
Main Menu of the module you are in and DOESN'T crash...
Also: Prob with the ZIPping of EMail: It works AGAIN... Prob was with
the new config file and sticking the wrong path in ONE LOUSY SPOT... :)
02 Feb 92
Some major, some minor stuph... Minor first...
1) Glen reported that when you misspelled the name of an extract file
it caused the board to crash... Fixed...
2) EBBSCFG.DAT is changed... Along with that comes individual xfer
sections.... Please note in the example EBBSCFG.DAT file that it
NOW shows directory name/descriptions, not just XFA, XFB, etc...
It's grouped by category now, and back to a simpler format....
BTW, this is NOW version 1.95: One more mod and it's 2.0 time...
Namely, batch [sigh] uploads... :)
30 Jan 92
Did some fixes and tweaks...
1) Found out the darned integrity test didn't work! Fixed that...
The SCAN function always worked, BTW, so don't start panicking!
I tested it with a KNOWN infected file, and it always found the
nasty and sent the warning to the user and updated the ULPROB.LOG
just like it was SUPPOSED to... :)
2) Now, when a bad file is encountered, the Sysop is notified via EMail,
So if you don't get any mail, chances are all your files are virus
free and the ZIP files are fine....
3) Email Zipper: This bugger kinda worked before, but NOW there's a
BUNCH of improvements... Each time the users mail is zipped up, it
is saved as EMAIL#.ZIP... The # starts at 1 and increments, so
feasably, the user can get up to 999 x 45 pieces of mail or
44,955 pieces of mail before the system gives up... :) All the
EMAIL#.ZIP files are stored in a zip shell named for the first 8
continuous letters in the users name... (see the next log entry
for a more detailed explaination)
29 Jan 92
Throw away the old stuph! Just did some MAJOR dinkin... Took a bunch of
the common routines and made them into $INCLUDE files.... Error Handler,
Function routines & Minimal Logoff Routine (used in things like the
TextMenu, Doors, Database, etc)... Fixed the ZipMail routine: stripped
the spaces out of the users name and then named the zipfile with the
first 8 characters of the users first and last name:
ex: Bruce Murphy ends up being BRUCEMUR.ZIP... Lon De Cloedt ends up as
LONDECLO.ZIP... (he goes by Lonnie, but just for this example... :) )
Another thing.... Also included XFRCVT2.... It's function is to strip
those extra spaces that an earlier version of XFERCVT placed in the
2nd and 3rd lines when you did the conversion to the new 3 line description
version... Not TOTALLY necessary; just one of those anal little things
I do from time to time... :)
29 Jan 92
Just added a new little prog to the system: XFERSORT... This guy
reads, sorts, then re-writes your XFERFILE.DAT file, sorting by either
the file's name or it's UL date... All are in ascending order... Just
add it to your EVENT.BAT file and it'll sort your XFERFILE.DAT file
every Midnight Backup Event... I stuck it on my board right after
Top 10... Also, this thing deletes all the empty space in the XFERFILE.DAT
and keeps things nice and neat for us anal types... :)
26 Jan 92
Been chasing an UGLY problem the past several days and FINALLY fixed
'er... Only prollem is you the sysop need to run ANOTHER conversion
program on your USERFILE.DAT... This conversion prog has worked fine
on several different userfiles, so if you encounter any probs, lemme
know, ok? It's called CONVERT2, and it's ONLY for folks that have
ALREADY run CONVERT on their userfiles and are currently running an
earlier version of EBBS Plus...
Anywho, I don't forsee ANY probs with the userfile from now on: it's
PLENTY big for just about ANYTHING you would wanna put in there, and
I've about run outta ideas for things to stick in there anyway.... :)
19 Jan 92
This file is dated the 21st in the wee hours because I've been doing
a BUNCH of changes to the changes I did on the 19th...
Modified the Change Password command in the Main Menu to Change Personal
Stats... Only thing they can change, however, is their Password, Age,
and Computer Type.... I DID have it so it could change everything but
their name, (Address, City, State, Zip, and Phone), but it was pointed
out to me that a user could feasably logon with their real stats then
change it to whatever they wanted (one of the prollems of growing up
in small-town Iowa is that you tend to trust folks more than ya should
here in the big city... :) ) Also remembered to update the progs that
print the EBBSCFG.DAT and EBBSCFG.TXT: the new additional field would
have caused a crash AND you wouldn't have printed the entire files...
Not sure WHEN we did it, but Glen and I modified the Text menuing so
you can ALSO load/view ANSI text files....
19 Jan 92
Now have 2 new fields: Just added a Computer Type and Age fields to the
Userfile: no conversion necessary! Also split the userfile editor screen
into 2 sections: personal and System data. The personal screen displays
the users name, address, city, state, zip, phone, age, and computer type.
System stats displays the users name and all the rest of the data that
directly pertains to his system usage... Did this because the screen
would have been too full for the sysop to view if they were looking at
it in the 25 line mode...
Also did a minor fix to the Doors, Database, and Text sections: if the
user can't figure out how to get back to the Main Menu, instead of just
getting a bad command message, they get the menu redisplayed until they
SEE the M for Main Menu prompt (that is in WHITE now)...
Another thing is if you want to take virtually EVERY module offline
for any reason, just rename or delete the module and the system will
still run... The ONLY ones that MUST be there for the program to run
are the Main and EBBSPLUS files.... No goodies, of course, but, if you
get into a pinch and don't have HD space for instance, you can just
rename the UL.EXE file to say UL1.EXE and the system will tell the user
that UL's aren't allowed at this time... Similar thingme for all the
rest, INCLUDING the Sysop stuph...
19 Jan 92
REALLY feeling energetic! Have a user that suggested I make the system
auto-ZIP up messages when it reached some arbitrary number. Since I have
the max number of mail set to 50, this could solve all the problems of
a Sysop or popular user getting more than 50 pieces of mail while away
on vacation or just not checking in for a while. I set the max at 45,
so when a user tries to send a 46th piece of mail, the system informs
them that the users mailbox is full and to hang on a sec while it ZIPs
up that mail... The system then sticks the ZIPped mail into a file that
is named with the first 8 letters of the users name into the xfer section
of your choice (see cfg$(58) in the EBBSCFG.TXT file)...
Also added a 'Goodbye after Upload'... something I've been MEANING to add
for quite a while and somehow never seem to get around to....
18 Jan 92
More mods: Just split the Sysop file as well for speed and size.
Getting ready to add more stuph to it as well (extra fields to the
userfile and a different display for the editor because the bugger
is 22 lines now: absolute max for a 25 line display)...
Userfile editor is in the SYSOPA module, Xferfile editor in the
SYSOPB module....
18 Jan 92
One BIG change to help squelch some of the confusion out there with
existing EBBS systems: The main module here is NOW named EBBSPLUS.EXE.
MAKE SURE TO CHANGE your EBBS.BAT file accordingly!
In an effort to recover some of the speed that EBBS was always famous
for, I have split the Main module into 3 parts: Main, TEXTSECT, and
MSGAREA... Those 3 components don't have any new mods in them, they
are just smaller and faster now... Also added something new to the
Sysop menu: Hit "I" while at the Sysop Menu prompt and you can send
EMail to a user without having to drop back to the Main Menu...
You'll also want to use the new SM and SM.ANS menu's as well, since
they reflect this addition....
Also have moved the config files for DOORS and DATABASE into the
main EBBSCFG.DAT file! Makes things SO much simpler!!!
14 Jan 92
Private UL's now configgable in EBBSCFG.DAT file. This feature ONLY
enabled for the Registered Version....
Dropped the ZIPped Text Section... EBBS has ALWAYS tried to be simple
and easy to maintain: THAT feature didn't fit... Also was too slow and
cumbersome....
Added ANSI to the Text section tho. You can have BOTH an ansi file (with
the .ANS extension) and a TXT file and the system will select the
appropriate version. If there is an ANSI but NOT a TXT version, the
program tells the user that the file is ONLY viewable in ANSI.
Put this in for the Door progs that generate stats in an ANSI file...
11 Jan 92
Split the XFER module into XFER and UL files. Did this because the file
was getting so big that the compiler was missing syntax and other probs
and it was developing strange quirks like 'forgetting' variables. Have
no good explaination for this: but it doesn't appear to be a problem any
more.
05 Jan 92
Private UL's for specified users is the latest mod. When you select 'U'
at the Xfer Section prompt, you enter the filename, then the system
prompts you if you wish to make the file a private UL. If you say yes,
then you enter the users name (routine similar to EMailing a user:you can
enter PART of the users name and you will be prompted if that name is
correct. If not, you get to try again)... IF the Private UL is for the
Sysop, the program stops the system timer, just like it does during a
normal UL. If it's for another user, the system time continues to click,
which should at least REDUCE any abuse of this feature...
04 Jan 92
Now have a Database online. It is ONLY available in the REGISTERED version,
though. Here's how it works:
Just as with the Text Section, you have the option of 2 different styles
of menus. I included an example of my DBSEMENU.DAT (menu file) and a
sample database (B.DBF). Also included is the DBASECFG.DAT file. This
file tells the system WHERE to find the database files. MAKE SURE it
jives with your system setup or you will have tons of agony trying to
figure out WHY the path is not found... :)
Anywho, the Database simply reads a single 75 character or less line and
searches for a string that matches the one inputted. If found, it prints
it to the screen... Simple but it works great... EASY to edit the
.DBF files too!
ONE MAJOR POINT! ALL database files MUST end with the .DBF extension.
Keep in mind the file you use for a database must be a simple ASCII file.
03 Jan 92
Added NULOGMK.EXE to the archive: This program allows you to make a
standard ASCII file just like the original EBBS did when it wrote the
New User Log. The name is the same too: NEWUSER.LOG. Simple little
program that just makes an ASCII text file with the users name, city,
state and the first day they logged on...
01 Jan 92
Have done a series of cosmetic changes, but THIS mod contains a mod that
will require you to run CONVERT2: have made use of another empty userfield
and there is in addition a change in the config file as well in the user
file area: check it out and change yours accordingly! The latest mod is
a thingme that saves the users FIRST logon date. Since all your present
users First Logon dates are prolly gone by now, I just set up the CONVERT2
file so it prompts you with a date you can plug in and that will fill that
spot in all the users files... Also, you can sort/search now by FIRST call
date as well as last call date..
Anothr mod is that when you zip up new messages the file is saved as the
first 4 letters of the name you have chosen for the extract file name
then MSGS after. (ex: MURPMSGS.ZIP)... This is Lonnie's fault, even tho
he CLAIMS Bill Greenland was whining about that... (Bill runs a PCBoard
BBS, right? :) )
25 Dec 91
Minor little mod: Logoff bug: New users were required to leave mail then
they also got the prompt "Do you want to leave Sysop mail?"
12 Dec 91
Couple mods:
1) Password protecting the EBBSCFG.DAT and REMOTE.DAT files from being
loaded into the editor or the READ File command in the Sysop Menu...
(Lonnie's whining again :))
2) F10 logoffs update the posts and reads..
Minor fix: extract files if you selected a file for batch DL and THEN
extracted a file, it would appear in your batch list...
11 Dec 91 (entry #2)
Also included in this mod is the 'Y' function for Read YOUR messages....
Prog filters out stuph addressed to anyone but you.... Modded menus are
included....
11 Dec 91
There is a convert prog for the xferfile.dat files... Like the one I did
for the userfiles, it makes a backup of the original...
Also included the EBBSCFG.DAT file: the section that has changed there
is plainly marked....
Also found a glitch in the XFER.BAS ratio thingme... Damned thing was
out of control ratio wise.... Modded it and NOW it works fine...
l8Tr....
Ok, NOW the friggin convert prog will work... Tried it on the file Glen
UL'd to me and it works just fine... One thing is, the only way I could
get the friggin thing to work right is to insert 39 spaces in the two
new fields. SO! What happens when you go to edit the files that you have
converted is that the cursor ends up clear to the right of the line.
All you need do, however, is just begin typing like you normally do if you
wanna type OVER what was the default characters..
Like when you get the default prompt in the message base for the subject...
Know what I mean, Vern?
This DOESN'T happen with all new UL's tho... There ARE 2 spaces at the
beginning of each line, but the system keys on that... If you try and
begin a description with 2 spaces, the system will key on those spaces
and NOT print the line....