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SFDSPLAY
v1.0
Copyright (c) 1993 Robert Prior
INTRODUCTION
SFDSPLAY is a utility written in Turbo Pascal 6.0 to aid sysops
in editing/creating menus for his/her BBS. Spitfire, being the great
software that it is, has a small, but sometimes frustrating drawback.
Spitfire requires that you have a separate menu file for each security
level. This means that if you wish to edit ONE menu, you must edit
EVERY menu file that you want to reflect the change. While not bad
for the sysop with two or three security levels, it can be quite
bothersome and time consuming for those sysops with many security
levels. How SFDSPLAY can aid in this task is by allowing you to edit
ONE menu and SFDSPLAY will create the menus for the remaining levels.
SFDSPLAY supports up to 20 security levels.
LICENSE
SFDSPLAY is not free. It is Shareware. You are free to use it
for a trial period of 14 days. After the 14 days, if you continue to
use it, you MUST register it. Registration is only $10 and entitles
you to all future releases at no additional charge. Send registrations,
comments and/or suggestions to:
Robert Prior
44 W. I St. #35
Los Banos, CA. 93635
OPERATION
The first step is to edit the SFDSPLAY.CFG file that accompanied
this archive or create one using any text editor that saves files in
standard ASCII format. Simply place each security level that you wish
SFDSPLAY to generate menus for each on a line by itself.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Do NOT put the security level for the menu you are going
to actually edit in the .CFG file! In other words, say you edit
MAIN20.CLR and you would also like to use the same menu for levels
30, 40, 50 and 60. You would write the following SFDSPLAY.CFG:
30
40
50
60
Then make sure that your MAIN20.CLR and your SFDSPLAY.CFG are in the
same directory as SFDSPLAY.EXE. Then just type "SFDSPLAY MAIN20.CLR".
That's all there is to it. SFDSPLAY will make an exact copy of
MAIN20.CLR for the levels listed in SFDSPLAY.CFG. In other words,
SFDSPLAY would create MAIN30.CLR, MAIN40.CLR, MAIN50.CLR and MAIN60.CLR.
You can place up to twenty security levels in SFDSPLAY.CFG. Also,
SFDSPLAY will create these files with the same extension as your
original file. So, it will work with both your ASCII and ANSI menus.
SFDSPLAY will create MAIN, FILE, MSG and SFDR menus.
SFDSPLAY is offered with absolutely NO warranty of any kind. Use it
at your own risk. I will not accept responsibility for lost or
corrupted data. It is suggested that you do NOT run SFDSPLAY from
your SF\DISPLAY directory, but instead copy the menu file to a work
directory as SFDSPLAY will not prompt you before it overwrites existing
menu files.
TECH SUPPORT
I will provide reasonable technical support at MY discretion to
those that are not registered. Registered users will receive FULL
support as well as all future updates.
Robert Prior
Data-Tech BBS
(209)826-8021
USR 9600 V.32