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Hello, and welcome to EZZSA. I am sure that there are those of you
asking what that might stand for.. well, it stands for
Entferat Zugang Ziellos Seite Auswahlen, or in english, Remote
Access Random Page Selector. I came up with the name since my
first version (RANDOM_1) was too close in name to another program
that did somewhat what mine does. So after a long night of trying
to come up with a name, I spotted my German/English dictionary,
and came up with EZZSA.. I thought it stood out.. <smile>
Now, for the important stuff.. how to make it work..
1) Copy the files EZZSA.EXE and EZZSA.CFG to either your \RA
directory, or one of your chosing.. it does not matter where
they are located at, as long as it is run from the directory
where the .CFG file is located.
2) Set up a directory for your page files, and place all of your
page files there.
3) Set up the .CFG files as follows:
C:\RA\
C:\RA\PAGE\
**NOTE** the trailing \ is NEEDED!
That is all that is needed for basic operations.. the first line is
where the RA program will be, since Remote Access looks for the
PAGE.RA to be in it's directory. The second line is where to find
the various page files to be selected from. There can be up to
400 pages files in there at this time. If you need more space than
that, let me know, and I will personally customize this program for
you, in exchange for copies of those page files.. <grin>
Now, for the added features... you can set up certain page files to
be selected during certain times of the year.. holiday music and
the like.. the steps are as follows:
1) Add the following commands to the .CFG file
SS:MMDD->MMDD
Where the SS is the set number, from 01 to 99 (must be a two digit
number, the first MMDD is the starting month/day, and the one following
the -> is the ending Month/Day.. like so:
01:1220->1228
Which will select from set 01 between December 20th and December 28th.
2) Then, select the page files that you want to be in that set, and
rename them from PAGENAME.RA to PAGENAME.R##, with the ## being the set
number... i.e. ROSE.RA become ROSE.R01.
You can have up to 99 sets, and the starting/ending month/day can be the
same if you only want that set for that day...
### Note, please remember that the starting Month/Day MUST be less that
the ending Month/Day.. 1220->1228, and NOT 1229->1210, or else that
set WILL BE IGNORED..
Example:
You have the following sets in your config file:
01:1220->1225
02:0101->0102
If the date is between 1220 and 1225, the following page files will be
considered for Page.Ra
Xmas.R01
SlntNght.R01
(and so forth)
During 0101 and 0102, NewYear1.R02 and NewYear2.R02 will be the only
ones considered.
If the system date does not fall between the dates listed in the config
file, *.RA will be the files considered.
There are three error levels possible with this program:
(0) No errors, file copied ok
(1) File not copied due to listed error
(4) Unknown Error, PLEASE LET ME KNOW ABOUT THIS ONE
If you have any comments, suggestions, or ideas, please send them
to me:
James Rhodes
8749 Chesterfield Road
Southaven, MS 38671
or
Fidonet 1:123/13.4
This program is POSTware.. I retain FULL copywrites, and promise only
that this program will take up valuable disk space till it is deleted.
Nothing more! If you like and use this program, please spend enough
to mail me a postcard letting me know that you are using it... If you
happen to send me money also, I will not complain.. <grin>
Enjoy!
Thanks to:
Buck Buckingham 1:123/22
John Worthington 1:123/5
Rusty Ferguson 1:123/13
Turbo C 2.0
Remote Access
and last, but never least
the Fidonet C echo for listening to my
silly questions, and answering them.
**Coming Soon.. RACOMPRESS.. run Remote Access in as little as 2K...
(if you belive that one, I have some land for sale also)
<grin>
(c)copywritten June 10th, 1990 by James Rhodes
All other programs are copywritten by their Authors, and will remain
that way till they tell you otherwise.
History:
May 1990 .01 Basic setup, bad name to program
June 1990 1.0 Added Date/Sets in Config, to allow page files by dates
June 1990 1.1 Fixed a few minor bugs that limited program to 13 page files
and added more detailed error trapping