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- It's not Shareware. It's SHOCKWARE!
-
- DropEdit Version 1.0
- D'Agger Shock's Drop Carrier Editor
- Copyright 1993 by D'Agger Shock, All Rights Reserved
- October 4, 1993
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- SHOCKWARE
- ~~~~~~~~~
- This program is distributed on the Shockware basis. It is NOT crippled
- in any way. If you like it, and you use it, I ask that you please
- register. REGISTER.TXT is included with this archive. By registering,
- you will keep updates and other quality software coming!
-
- WARRANTY
- ~~~~~~~~
- This program is distributed without warranty. D'Agger Shock will not be
- liable in any way for any damages caused from the use of this program.
- There is no guarantee that this program will work on your system. A
- friend of mine put it best when he said:
-
- "Hey, it works on my system!"
-
- TriBBS
- ~~~~~~
- This program is desiged for use with the TriBBS Bulletin Board System
- only!
-
- TriBBS is a registered trademark of Mark D. Goodwin.
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- WHAT THIS PROGRAM IS SUPPOSED TO DO
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- DropEdit is the DSDrop.Dat file editor. It's an easier way to configure
- each user's record who drops carrier. DropEdit also handles all of
- DSDrop's new lock out features.
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- MULTI-NODE SETUP
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- DropEdit does support file sharing, but I do not recommend that you use
- it while any node is in operation.
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- The next thing you have to do, is make a configuration file. A sample
- configuration file is included in this archive. This file can be any
- name. When you run DropEdit, run the name of the configuration file as
- DropEdit's first parameter.
-
-
- Example: DROPEDIT DSDROP1.CFG <- To run DropEdit.
- DROPEDIT DSDROP1.CFG /LOCKOUT <- To check and lockout abusers.
-
-
- NOTE: DSDrop and DropEdit's configuration files are EXACTLY the SAME! You
- can pass ANY Node's config file as DropEdit's 1st parameter.
-
- Sample configuration file for Node 1:
-
- C:\TRIBBS <- Path to node 1's directory.
- C:\TRIBBS <- Path to THIS node's directory.
- C:\TRIBBS\TRITOOLS\DSDROP.ANS <- Path and name of color ANSI screen.
- C:\TRIBBS\TRITOOLS\DSDROP.BBS <- Path and name of Mono screen.
- C:\TRIBBS\TRITOOLS\DSDROP.RIP <- Path and name of RIP screen.
- BRIGHT GREEN <- Heading Color
- BRIGHT WHITE <- Text Color.
- SYSOP=1 <- Sysop's user number.
- SYSOPSCREEN=YES <- Send notification screen to Sysop?
- RIP=YES <- Using RIP?
- DAT=YES <- Use a data file?
- LOG=YES <- Log all carrier losses?
- C:\TRIBBS\DSDROP.DAT <- Path and name of data file.
- C:\TRIBBS\DSDROP.LOG <- Path and name of log file.
-
- Sample configuration file for Node 2:
-
- C:\TRIBBS <- Path to node 1's directory.
- C:\TRIBBS2 <- Path to THIS node's directory.
- C:\TRIBBS\TRITOOLS\DSDROP.ANS <- Path and name of color ANSI screen.
- C:\TRIBBS\TRITOOLS\DSDROP.BBS <- Path and name of Mono screen.
- C:\TRIBBS\TRITOOLS\DSDROP.RIP <- Path and name of RIP screen.
- BRIGHT GREEN <- Heading Color
- BRIGHT WHITE <- Text Color.
- SYSOP=1 <- Sysop's user number.
- SYSOPSCREEN=YES <- Send notification screen to Sysop?
- RIP=YES <- Using RIP?
- DAT=YES <- Use a data file?
- LOG=YES <- Log all carrier losses?
- C:\TRIBBS\DSDROP.DAT <- Path and name of data file.
- C:\TRIBBS\DSDROP.LOG <- Path and name of log file.
- LOCKOUT=100 <- Lock user out at ## of carrier drops.
-
- NOTE: All lines in the configuration file MUST be present wether you are using
- a feature or not!
-
- MAIN PATH: This is the path to the main TriBBS directory.
-
- THIS PATH: This is the path to the node that DSDrop is running in.
-
- ANSI SCREEN: This is the name of the Color ANSI that will be sent to the
- caller. If it's in the same directory, just the name is needed. Otherwise
- the full path must be specified. A samples has been included.
-
- MONO SCREEN: This is the name of the Non-color screen that will be sent to
- the caller. If it's in the same directory, just the name is needed.
- Otherwise, the full path must be specified. A sample has been included.
-
- RIP SCREEN: This is the name of the RIPScrip screen that will be sent to
- the caller only if the RIP= line is set to YES. If it's in the same
- directory, just the name is needed. Otherwise, the full path must be
- specified. A sample has been included.
-
- HEADING COLOR: This is the color for the Headings that DSDrop will send
- to the Sysop Notification Screen.
-
- TEXT COLOR: This is the color of the Callers information that is sent to
- the Sysop Notification Screen.
-
-
-
- SYSOP= LINE: This is the Sysop's user number. A user number is a number
- that TriBBS gives each caller. You can check to see what your user number
- is from the "Edit Users" option from TriBBS's Waiting for Caller screen.
- (Normally, this number is 1, because the Sysop is usually the first
- person to logon.)
-
- SYSOPSCREEN= LINE: Do you want a notification screen sent to the Sysop?
- There are two options. SYSOPSCREEN=YES which will send a notification
- screen, and SYSOPSCREEN=NO which will not. There must be no space to the
- left or to the right of the equal sign.
-
- RIP= LINE: Does you BBS support RIP graphics? There are two options.
- RIP=YES which will look for the screen specified in line 5, and send it to
- the caller, and RIP=NO which will not look for the screen or send it to
- the caller. If you are using TriBBS 4.x set this to NO.
-
- DAT= LINE: Do you want to use the Data file features? The data file
- contains important information about each caller that drops carrier. The
- features include a drop carrier counter, lockout flag, call waiting flag.
- There are two options. DAT=YES which will enable the above features for
- use with DropEdit and send the data to the file specified in line 13, and
- DAT=NO which disables both the above features and DropEdit.
-
- LOG= LINE: Do you want a log of all carrier drops? There are two options.
- LOG=YES which will log all carrier drop to the file specified in line 14,
- and LOG=NO which will disable the log.
-
- NOTE: You may want to set this to C:\TRIBBS\MWORK\CALLERS.LOG for ease of
- use.
-
- DATA PATH: This is the path and name to the dat file. If line 11 is set to
- DAT=NO, then this line will have no effect, but it MUST be present!
-
- LOG FILE PATH: This is the path and name to the log file. IF line 12 is
- set to LOG=NO, then this line will have no effect, but it MUST be present!
-
- LOCKOUT= LINE: This is the number of times a person can drop carrier
- before they become locked out. All lock outs are handled by DropEdit. If
- you do not want the lock out feature then you do not have to use it, but
- this line MUST be present!
-
- Example output screen:
-
- DropEdit Version 1.0 by D'Agger Shock
- D'Agger Shock's Drop Carrier Editor
- Copyright 1993 by D'Agger Shock, All Rights Reserved
- Registered To: UNREGISTERED
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Record Number: 1 of 3
- <A> User Name.......: Dean D'agostino
- <*> User Alias......: Speedtorch
- <*> User Password...: Register
- <*> Security Level..: 100
- <*> City, State.....: Valrico, Fl
- <*> Phone Number....: 813-555-5555
- <*> Date Dropped....: 10/04/93
- <*> Time Dropped....: 12:15:39 pm
- <*> Node Dropped....: 1
- <B> Carriers Doppped: 3
- <C> Call Waiting....: Yes
- <D> Locked Out......: No
-
- <PGDN> - Next User <PGUP> - Previous User <ESC> - Exit
-
-
-
- OPTIONS
- ~~~~~~~
- OPTION <A>: This option will replace this person's record with the person
- you specify at the following prompt:
-
- Enter New User's Name:
-
- Enter a name, and DropEdit will search through your users, and
- replace the old users information with the new user's information.
-
- Reset Fields? (Y/n):
-
- Answering 'Y' will reset the following fields: Date Dropped, Time
- Dropped, Node Dropped, Carriers Dropped, Call Waiting, and Locked
- Out.
- Answering 'N' will leave the fields as they were from the previous
- user.
-
- OPTION <B>: This option will give the user a new number of carriers
- dropped that you specify at the following prompt:
-
- Enter number of carriers dropped:
-
- Enter a number and DropEdit will change the number of carrier drops
- to the new amount.
-
- OPTION <C>: This is the call waiting flag. If you know that a user has
- call waiting (and can not disable it) set this flag to Yes at the
- following prompt:
-
- Call Waiting? (Y/N)
-
- Setting this to Yes will allow the user to NOT be locked out if his
- number of dropped carriers reaches the lock out activation number
- specified in the configuration file as LOCKOUT=#.
-
- OPTION <D>: This is the locked out flag of the user from USERS.DAT. You
- can set this at the following prompt:
-
- Lock Out? (Y/N)
-
- Setting this to Yes will immediately lock the user out of your board.
- Setting this to no will immediately let the user back in.
-
- =============================================================================
-
- AUTOMATICALLY LOCKING A USER OUT
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- To automatically lock a user at out at a specified number of carrier drops,
- you will need to run DropEdit in your nightly events batch file. This
- example assumes that you have used a separate directory for DropEdit.
-
- NOTE: If you do not want the lock out feature, then don't use DropEdit with
- the /LOCKOUT switch!!!
-
- Example Event batch file:
-
- @ECHO OFF
- CD\TRIBBS\TRITOOLS
- DROPEDIT DSDROP1.CFG /LOCKOUT
- CD\TRIBBS
- BOARD
-
-
-
-
- NOTE: DROPEDIT.EXE and the configuration file MUST be in the same directory,
- or you will have to specify the full path name!
-
- HOW TO RESET DSDROP/DROPEDIT
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- If there comes a time that you want or need to reset DSDrop's drop carrier
- counter, all you have to do is del the .DAT file. To reset just one
- caller, use DropEdit.
-
- HISTORY
- ~~~~~~~
- 1.0
- ~~~
- When a user was locked out, I had to search through all of my users...
- DropEdit narrows it down. Putting the lockout feature into DSDrop would
- have made it slow again (I just made it faster, I didn't want to take
- that away!). To have the lockout/call waiting feature, I needed to have a
- drop carrier counter... For that, I needed to have a structured data file.
- So, to make it easy on all you sysops, I also needed to write a dat file
- editor too.
-
- VIRUS INFORMATION
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- No program or virus checker is perfect so D'Agger Shock is now using
- McAffee Associates' VALIDATE.COM to check the executable files for
- your protection against viruses.
-
- The validation data for DROPEDIT.EXE, Version 1.0 is:
-
- File Name: DROPEDIT.EXE
- Size: 53,084
- Date: 10-4-1993
- File Authentication:
- Check Method 1: E697
- Check Method 2: 1B0F
-
- WHERE I CAN BE REACHED
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- WHERE TO REGISTER
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- To get in touch with me, I can be reached at one of the following places.
- My name is Dean D'Agostino. Just leave me a message. I can now be reached
- on WME in BBS Utilities and TriBBS Support. Just in case you lost
- REGISTER.TXT, the registration fee for DSDrop is $5.00. Please make Check
- or Money Order out to Dean D'Agostino, and mail to D'Agger Shock.
-
- Priadore The Blazing Phoenix BBS D'Agger Shock
- (813) 854-4961 (813) xxx-xxxx P.O. Box 1368
- 24 Hrs. Coming Soon Valrico, Fl 33549
-
-