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- About Gliders…
-
- Gliders is a Tabby-compatible utility which has two uses:
-
- • It can extend launch.next events beyond Tabby’s limit of a
- 255-character script.
-
- • It allows systems which don’t run Tabby to chain Tabby-compatible
- utility programs, such as mehitabel and Tally, then to run them as
- “NetMail Events.”
-
- Gliders is not specific to any BBS package, and should run with anything
- that supports external applications.
-
- To set up Gliders, put it at the same folder level as Host and Tabby,
- then run it while holding down the mouse button. Use its “Select Event”
- button to choose a string of applications to run. These are listed in
- the pop-up menu in the dialog box in the order in which they will run.
- You can also choose to delete an event if you want to reorganize the
- sequence. Gliders allows you to enter as many as 20 events. These are
- recorded in STR resources, and remain there permanently until you
- reconfigure Gliders.
-
- If you want to run more than 20 events, no problem. Just make multiple
- copies of Gliders with different names, and have each launch another
- copy when it’s run through its first 19 events.
-
- In operation, Gliders looks for a text file called launch.next. If it
- finds such a file, it processes its information and writes a new
- launch.next file, with Gliders events appended to the existing sequence.
- If there is no launch.next file, Gliders creates one and writes its
- preordained event list. When it is done, Gliders launches the
- appropriate next event.
-
- If you are not running Tabby, remember to configure your BBS program to
- launch Gliders at whatever hour you choose.
-
- Version 1.1 of Gliders runs correctly with other launch.next events under
- MultiFinder.
-
- Version 1.3 of Gliders works with any BBS program that runs Tabby and
- fixes some bugs which cropped up in the briefly-distributed version 1.2.
-
- Version 1.4 improves the interface by allowing you to insert events in the
- list rather than always appending them to the end.
-
- Version 1.41 adds “Alias” information to the Configure dialog to remind
- you what you called this copy of Gliders.
-
- Version 1.4.2 adds color icon and SIZE resource, along with some extra WaitNextEvent calls for MultiFinder/System 7 compatibility.
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- Gliders is free, though it is ©1990 by me.
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- If you like Gliders, send mail to PETERJ on GEnie or via FidoNet to Pete
- Johnson at 102/863, or drop me a postcard. If I get good mail, I will
- continue to maintain Gliders and to release free software. Otherwise I
- won’t.
-
- -- Pete Johnson
-
- PETERJ on GEnie
-
- Glassell Park BBS (102/863)
- (213) 254-4133
- Post Office Box 65074
- Los Angeles, CA 90065
-
- July 1, 1991
-