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- Suburban Software
- Written by Chuck Valecek
- 11/13/89
- Version 2.0
-
- Here is another feeble attempt by me to write docs for a program. I hate
- writting documentation even at work!
-
- This door is an ANSI Viewer which allows users to view ansi screens created by
- other users and sysops. The door is very simple to install and should not
- require any work by the sysop to keep it up and running.
-
- The door supports categories of screens. This allows you to assign a category
- to your screens. You can have BBS screens, Holiday screens or just plain old
- ansi screens. The decession is up to you. To create categories assign the
- screens a unique file extension. Holiday screens can be ThankG.HOL bbs screens
- can be SUBSOFT.BBS or what ever you decide. You determine the extension and
- in the config file neter the extension, the location of the files and a
- description of the screens. It very simple!
-
- Look at the example of a config file that I supplied. The door will support up
- to 25 categories and 500 screens per category. The number after the registration
- number is the number of categories. Followed by the description of the category,
- the path and then the file extension. There MUST be all three for each category
- you specified.
-
- When the door is entered by the user it will display the categories that you
- have defined. From this list the program will select the file extension that you
- associated with the category and search the path you specified for the screens.
-
- Example: If yoou had a category called BBS screens and specified the file
- extension of BBS and you said the BBS screens would be in d:\ansi the door would
- search the directory ANSI and display a list of ALL screens that had a file
- extension of BBS. Once this list is compiled the program displays a menu of the
- screens for the user to select from. It will halt the display after 72 screens,
- if there where more than the user would be prompted to enter the screen numbers
- or press return to continue with the display of screens to choose from.
-
- The user can enter more than one screen number if the number is seperated by a
- space or comma or any character. When the screen selected is displayed it will
- pause and pressing any key will either display the next screen or return the
- user to the menu. If the user entered Q to quit the display and you had more
- than one category specified than the user would be returned to the category menu
-
- There is a filter option in the program also. This option will blank out the
- screen that the user viewed so when the screen menu was diplayed the screens
- already viewed will not be shown but in its place will be a blank field.
-
- The config file is the basic config file for ProKit type doors.
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- Suburban Software
- Chuck
- Valecek
- 999999 <-----The registration Number
- X <----------The number of categories
- Ansi Screens <------ The description of the screens -------------|
- c:\ans <-------- The path where the screens are located -----------|
- .ans <------ The file extension to search for ------------------|
-
- The three lines above must be repeated X many times, one for every category
- specified
-
- Thats it for the config file. To run the door a batch file must be present in
- the PCBoard directory.
-
- cd \ansi
- ssansi ssansi.cnf C:\pcb
- cd \pcb
- board
-
-
- The file ssansi.hlp can be edited as you wish and the file ssansi.scr can be
- redone to your liking as long as you dont exceed 16 lines. I am no artist so
- be creative and mak you own screen. I just supplied a simple one.
-
- Now what I did was create a ANSI conference. In this conference I created a
- directory of all the scrrens ANSI. In PCBoard I stated that all uploads would
- go into the directory ANSI. The Config file tells the door to look in the ANSI
- directory for the screens. Now users upload the appropiate screen into this
- conference with the appropiate file extension. Then the door searches the
- directory for the sleceted extension and displays them to the user. So there
- isnt any extra work needed by the sysop. You may want to review some of the
- screens to make sure they are being displayed correctly. This way when a new
- screen is uploaded it can be viewed right away.
-
-
- This door is another in a series of doors from Suburban Software. Some of the
- Doors that I have written using ProKit routines are:
-
- King of the Board - Trivia Game now supporting King & Queen
- Strike 9
- SS01-14 - PCBoard bbs lister, using the BLT1 from Salt Air
- SS02-14 - Displays the Daily caller log
-
- Doors requiring Doorpch 3.5
- SS04-14 - Text file viewer door that supports 500 text files
-
- And MORE to come!!!
-
- Thank you for reviweing this door. I support all my software through a support
- conference on my Board (Conference 7). All the latest release will be posted
- there plus any support that is needed. I do support my software. I have been
- known to call a sysop having problems installing my doors and step them
- through the installation even before the product is registered. Nothing like
- a HAPPY sysop!!
-
- Chuck Valecek
- Suburban Software
- (708) 312-636-6694 1200/2400 (Public)
- (708) 312-636-6697 1200/2400/9600/19200 USR HST (Private & Visting sysops)
-
- You must request access to this node if you are a visting sysop. I have been
- plagued by PHONEY sysops using this node so I was forced into requiring the
- sysops to request access. Sorry!
-
- Please use the registration form if you plan on registrating the door.
- And PLEASE make the check out to ME not Suburban Software.