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- Copyright (c) 1991 By Jerry Halstead
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- NewMess is a quick little program that I created for my TriTel
- BBS which does one thing and one thing only: displays new message counts.
- Basically it will tell you how many new messages you've received in ALL of
- your conferences broken down into individual conference numbers. Like so:
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- ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Message Today's │
- │ Conference New Messages │
- ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
- │ Main 1 │
- │ TriTel Suggestions 2 │
- └──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- I cannot be held responisible for any problems or damage incurred
- from using this program. You alone are responsible for reading the
- documentation and understanding the setup and configurations for this
- program and how they pertain to your own BBS setup. No guarantees,
- written or assumed, are given with NewMess and it is not considered
- a part of the TriTel BBS distributed and written by Mark Goodwin.
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- If you do not agree with any of the above or do not understand
- any portion of the documentation you are urged not to run NewMess.
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- **** WARNING **** WARNING **** WARNING **** WARNING ****
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- NewMess is a Public Domain TriTel program. If you find this
- program to be a valuable addition to your TriTel BBS, that's great.
- I created it to fill a need on my BBS and would love to hear if it helped
- someone else out. The latest version of this and any of my other TriTel
- utilities are on my BBS, Guru Mountain, at (603) 448-0198 (USR DS 9600baud).
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- SETUP
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- You should have recieved the following files in your TriLevel
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- NEWMESS.EXE....The main program.
- NEWMESS.DOC....This file.
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- Copy all of the files into their own directory. The files do not
- have to be in any of the TriTel directories.
- The syntax for running NewMess is:
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- NewMess C:\TRITEL SET >i:\tritel\display\logon3.bbs <--where you want report
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- The directory with Tritel in it.
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- NewMess looks for MCONF.DAT in the WORK directory
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- NewMess has two suggested phases:
- 1) Setting the beginning of the day.
- 2) Comparing the present messages with the preset numbers.
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- Basically you run NewMess at midnight using the SET option which creates a
- very small file in the directory you run it from (called message.set) that
- is used as a "starting point". Then whenever you choose, say between callers,
- you can run NewMess in report mode:
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- NewMess C:\TRITEL >c:\tritel\display\logon3.bbs
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- This compares your present message count with what was saved in message.set
- and outputs a quick little report to the screen. Since it's to the screen
- you need the DOS redirection (">") to send it to whatever file you choose.
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- Here's the way I run NewMess: At midnight I invoke a TriTel event with
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- NewMess (TriTel EVENT Batch file example)
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- cd \events\NewMess
- NEWMESS.EXE C:\TRITEL SET >C:\TRITEL\DISPLAY\LOGON3.BBS
- cd \tritel
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- The NewMess batch file is relatively straight forward. First it
- switches to the directory with all of the NewMess files and then it
- calls NewMess WITH the path to your TriTel files and the SET command. All
- output (including error messages if you give it the wrong parameters) will
- be put in a files called logon3.bbs in your TriTel display directory.
- Then I put a line in my BETWEEN.BAT file that calls NewMess. NewMess
- is amazingly quick so don't worry about running it too much.
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- BETWEEN.BAT
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- cd\events\NewMess
- NewMess c:\tritel >c:\tritel\display\logon3.bbs
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- BETWEEN.BAT runs between every call you get on the BBS.
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- SUPPORT:
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- NewMess is supported on my TriTel BBS at (603) 448-0198 and the
- newest version is available for download in the TriTel files area.
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