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- Program Information.
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
│ Program : TC
│
│ Version : 2.00
│
│ Revision : 0
│
│ Release Date : 1991 - Aug - 29.
│
│ Copyright : 1990,1991 Patrik Sjöberg and FenrisUlven Data
│
│ OS : PC- / MS- DOS 3.0 ->
│
│ Hardware : IBM PC,XT,AT,PS/2 Compatible
│
│ Software : A Remote Access Bulletin Board System (v1.01 or lower)
│ or a FrontDoor Mailer.
│ If intended to be used remotly you will need a
│ Revision 5 FOSSIL Compatible Communications Driver
│
│ Compiler : Borland Turbo Pascal 6.0 / Turbo Assembler 2.01
│
│ Description : Display todays Callers for RA and FrontDoor.
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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- Welocome to TC - Todays Callers
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What is TC ?
LC is a little program that displays who has called today to
Your Remote Access BBS and Your FrontDoor mailer. It also shows
the calls Your mailer has made.
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- Reason ?
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As a Remote Access sysop i wanted to see who had called so far today.
There are two ways of doing this. Looking at the log, or log on to
the BBS and execute a menutype 51 "Show todays Callers". Both where to
slow for my purposes. I wanted a quick glance at todays caller nothing
more. For FrontDoor i could simply press Alt-I for the Inbound
history but i had to figure out myself wich where todays calls and
I didn't get a summary of how many they were.
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- Solution !
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The solution is simple. Just execute TC.EXE and you will get a list
of todays callers. Looking just like the list in RA. Nothing fancy
at all but everything i needed.
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Disclaimer and Legal matters
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The TC-Package is subject to the following license terms and
conditions.
* The TC-package is supplied as is. The author disclaims all
warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation,
the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose.
The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential,
which may result from the use of the TC-package.
* The TC-package is a "shareware program" and is provided at no
charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your
friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of another
system. The essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal
computer users with quality software without high prices, and yet
to provide incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products.
* The TC-package, all programs, the documentation and support files are
copyrighted 1991 by Patrik Sjöberg. All rights are reserved.
You may copy this package for backup purposes. You may also copy and
share unmodified copies of the whole package, providing that the
copyright notice is reproduced and included on all copies.
* You may not sell the product for a fee and/or distribute the product
along with other products without written permission, nor may you
modify or remove the Copyright Notices from the programs or the
documentation files. User clubs, if they are NOT commercial, are
allowed to ask a small amount of money for distribution and storage
when they want to share this package amongst their members.
* It is forbidden to modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer,
decompile and/or disassemble the software in the TC-package.
Patching the medium at places that carry the software is seen as a
program change and is also forbidden.
* Non-commercial users can get a licence for the usage up to this
release of the TC-package for a small amount of money. Look into
the details later in this document. Previous registered users will
receive a big reduction to upgrade to the newer versions.
* Commercial usage of the TC-Package will cost somewhat more. Also, a so
called 'closed' Bulletin Board System (a system where the user must
pay direct to the SysOp to get full access) has to pay more than a
Non-commercial user. Usage of the TC-Package on a BBS with 3 (three)
lines or more is considered as 'closed BBS' usage also.
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- How to use TC
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Note that TC will try to detect if you are running Under DesqView.
If DesqView (DV) is detected the program will use the virtual
videobuffer supplied by DV. Also the program will give away time
slices to other tasks when it is idle.
TC depends entirely on two Environment varibles called "RA" and "FD".
This you set by typing ...
C:\> SET RA=<The path to your bbs> ... at the DOS prompt.
Please note that there should not be any Spaces between the "RA" and
the "=" sign.
If you wish to check wether you already has this one set just type...
C:\> SET
... at the DOS prompt and all the variables in your environment
will be listed.
The same goes for FrontDoors environment variable called "FD".
After this is done just type TC and you will be able to see todays
callers.
But if you do not wish to set the variable RA then simply execute TC
from the Home Directory of Remote Access.
TC is smart enough to know if you have set the option
"Exclude sysop from list" in RACONFIG. If set to YES Your
name will not be shown in the List generated by LC.
This of course is also depending on the Name you Entered in RACONFIG
as the name of the sysop.
Another thing that TC will get from the RA Config file is the name
of your system. So if that one isn't correctly displayed by TC please
check the setup. And Your Nodenumber as Well. TC assumes that the
first NodeNumber in your RA setup is your primary and that is the
one that is displayed.
After all this you simply type TC and press the Enter key at the
DOS prompt. A list of todays callers will be seen.
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- TC Used by your users.
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Just as well as i am peeking at todays callers now and then so does
my users. And a question that keep popping up is why the BBS has been
busy and no user has been ON-Line. The answer to this is mostly file-
requests made by other SysOps. And having to explain this over and
over i got tired. So i simply added Fossil support for TC so that
my users could se not only todays callers but todays inbound and
outbound mailcalls.
This way they can see allmost all activity on my board.
To set up TC for remote usage simply add the command line FOSSIL.
TC FOSSIL
Will tell TC to start looking for the DORINFOX.DEF file in the current
directory or the one pointed to by the RA environment variable.
TC will from that file get hold of information if the user has ANSI or
Avatar set and use the proper graphic mode. TTY users will also be
happy since no graphics code are sent to them. TC also checks if the
baudrate is valid or if it is in local mode.
Simply install TC as a menutype 7 in your Remote Access and replace it
with you current menutype 51.
If You do not wish TC to show what the users see add the parameter
SNOOPOFF and TC will only show a status line on the local side.
Ex:
TC FOSSIL SNOOPOFF
Would tell TC not to the display anything but a status line on the
local screen. Snoop can be toggled on/off from the local keyboard
by pressing space.
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- The last part ?
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If You wish to contact the development team of TC You can do
so at the following adresses.
The World except the USA.
FenrisUlven Data
Attn: Patrik Sjöberg
Sörbygatan 69B
S-802 55 GEFLE
SWEDEN
FidoNet 2:205/208
US Robotics DS 14.4 42b
Data Line : +46-26-628057
The USA
Febbs Support
Attn : Paul Williams
701 Laurel Drive
Aiken, South Carolina 29801-3391
FidoNet : 1:3624/1
US Robotics DS 14.4 42b
Data Line: (803) 649-9612
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Copyright, Trademarks
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Remote Access is a trademark of Continental Software
FrontDoor is a trademark of Joaquim H. Homrighausen
Desqview is a trademark of Quarterdeck Systems
MS-DOS is a trademark of Microsoft corporation
Avatar is a trademark of George A. Stanislav
The TC-Package is written in Turbo Pascal 6.0 and Turbo Assembler
2.01, with help of the Turbo Debugger 2.01 and makes use of,
Object professional 1.11. Also included are some routines of
Anders Brink's fine tools called ABUnit which is Public Domain.
Turbo Pascal is a trademark of Borland International
Turbo Debugger is a trademark of Borland International
Turbo Assembler is a trademark of Borland International
ABUnit is a trademark of Anders Brink
Object Professional is a trademark of TurboPower Inc.
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