CD Shareware Magazine 1997 January/CD_shareware_1-97.iso/DOS/COMUNICA/MSGQ132.ZIP/MSGQUOTE.DOC

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                        ProBoard 2.15 PEX Version 1.32
                         FreeWare by Olivier Debonne

                    Copyright (C) 1996 by Olivier Debonne
                       Free Corner BBS, +32-56-XX.XX.XX
                               (not online yet!)

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║ ▒▒ Introduction ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║
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 MsgQuoter is a PEX for ProBoard 2.15 that let's the user choose a cookie
 to add to the message they've written. It uses a special technique, so it
 doesn't require special indexed files. It works with normal text files.
 It's a slower method, but it only takes 4 second to take 9 quotes from a
 350 Kb file, containing 8000 quotes! :-) So, speed is relative... FYI,
 these tests were made on a Pentium 90 MHz with a PIO Mode 3 E-IDE Harddisk.

 Supports both PEX and EXE Full Screen editors. There's no support for the
 line-by-line editor by ProBoard. I recommend that you don't use this PEX in
 this certain sitution. BTW, why don't you use a Full Screen editor, there
 are many good editors available, even some of them are Free to use (NSDEdit,
 FullEdit, TEdit, PEdit, ...).

 With the release of ProBoard 2.15, it was unable to have a FSED.PEX in your
 PEX Directory if you want to run the build-in ProBoard Full-Screen Editor.
 In this version of MsgQuoter, you can still use the _FSED.PEX while having
 a FSED.PEX in your PEX directory.

 MsgQuoter will randomly display sixteen of the quotes in the file defined
 in the MSGQ_CFG.INI file. The quotes *CAN* contain ANSi codes, althought
 it's not recommended because many mail readers can't display these codes.
 But the posibility exist!

 And MsgQuoter does *MORE*, all your users can have their own Signature line,
 the lines will be saved in the MSGQ_SIG.INI file.

 With the introduction of this version, you can also get a (free) licenced
 version on your name. Detailed info follows later.

 MsgQuote doesn't need an .INI file to be configured.

 Messager needs ANSi to run smooth. If a you have users who use ASCii, don't
 panic!  The program will recognize their terminal setting and they won't see
 that MessageQuoter was trying to be active.

 MsgQuoter is, like all my other ProBoard utilities, FREEWARE.

 I'd like to encourage more programmers to write FreeWare in stead of
 ShareWare, because there are a lot of programmers (I don't write names)
 who spend more time on their registration key system than the actual
 program...

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║ ▒▒ Disclaimer ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║
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 This software is copyrighted material of Olivier Debonne.

 I reserve the right to quit giving support or releasing updates for the
 software at any time.

 The software and other material included in the distribution archive are
 provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind. We do not guarantee the
 correct functioning and/or reliability of the software. The author will
 not be liable for any direct or indirect damages, resulting from the use
 of the software.

 You may not reverse-engineer this software in any way and you may certainly
 not add, change or delete any files in the distribution archive !

 You are free to distribute the original, unmodified MsgQuoter archive
 provided no fee is charged for its distribution. This excludes charges
 for online time on electronic bulletin boards or other communication
 services.

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║ ▒▒ Get a Licenced Version! ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║
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 Do you want a version which says your name on the top? That's possible,
 all you need to do is send this little questionnaire to one of my addresses.
 Then, I'll send you the very small key in return. This system is also to
 keep track on who uses my programs!

   BBS name :
   BBS phone number :
   Sysop Name :
   Your Electronic Mail Addresses :

 Sending this, is possible via E-Mail or Fidonet, snail mail will stay
 unanswered. You can only get your key through an electronic way!

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║ ▒▒ Changes ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║
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 - Version 1.32

    ■ Added "MinLevel" entry in the MSGQ_CFG.INI, to set the minimum level
      needed to get access to the PEX.

 - Version 1.31

    ■ Bugfix: It's now unable to add a your Signature when all the lines
      are empty! Version 1.3 gave errors or crashed when no Signature lines
      were available for the user and he/she would try to add the lines.
      (Thanks to Wolfgang Dickhardt)

 - Version 1.3

    ■ New Feature Search in the Quotefile for a Keyword!
    ■ New Feature, MsgQuoter now supports different Groups of Taglines.
      You can define up to 9 different Quotefiles. This is handy if you
      have multi-langual Quotefiles! (Thanks to Joop Blokker, author of
      TmNice, for this feature :))
    ■ Bugfix: MsgQuoter imports now the full 80 chars of a Quote. It only
      displays 68 out of it, but the the full Quote is added to the message.
    ■ Now you can change the Signature till it fits your needs, this can all
      be done by the Signature menu.
    ■ User and The Sysop can Upload/Import their Signature. This a handy for
      non-Win95 users and users who have a difficult Signature with ASCii aRT.
    ■ MSGQUOTE.INI is devided into 2 files, MSGQ_CFG.INI and MSGQ_SIG.INI.
      The first one holds the configuration and the second one is for
      the Signatures only.
    ■ Added "MinSpeed" entry in the MSGQ_CFG.INI, to set the minimum speed
      when to display the ANSi animation.
    ■ User can now select a default Signature (made by the Sysop). This
      Signature is defined in the INI-file and you *CAN* use Text Macros,
      for displaying user's name, city, level, baudrate, ... like in a
      OneLiner.
    ■ New in the Cursor Menus is that you can also use the highlighted option.
      Eg., you can press 'h' or 'H' to see the Help screen.
    ■ If you choose not to save the changed Signature, the old one is
      displayed again.
    ■ Changed the strategy of the way the Signature line technique works
      again. Now asking if you want to add your Signature is definable.
    ■ Checks if the 'Own Quote' is epmty, if so don't ask to add it and
      return to Main Menu. (Thanks to Gilles Hemberg)
    ■ Checks if the 'Keyword' is epmty, if so don't search for it and
      return to Main Menu.
    ■ Now added info to PROBOARD.LOG when someones enters Signature lines.
    ■ Licenced Version available (with KeyReg-System).
    ■ Some minor bugs fixed.

 - Version 1.2Γ2 - Second Public Gamma!

    ■ Bugfix: Add own Quote works again! It failed to work when cursor was
      on another line than the line of the first quote.
    ■ Path and filename of the Quotefile is not longer been displayed on the
      remote screen. It's only displayed locally. Remote users will see
      Quotefile instead of eg. D:\PB\TAGLINES.TXT. (Thanks to Wim Jans)
    ■ Changed the strategy of the way the Signature line technique works.
      Default answers are now Y(es). So, you only need to press [ENTER] :)
    ■ Header now remains on the screen when selecting no Quote. In the other
      versions it would clear the screen.

 - Version 1.2Γ - Public Gamma!

    ■ New Feature "Signature"-lines! (Thanks to Gilles Hemberg)
    ■ Help screen is now displayed correctly.
    ■ Improved Cursorkeys-routine (less redrawning).
    ■ Little ANSi animation at the end of the program.
    ■ Animation when selecting Random Quote (like WOT, from [JMJ] :))
    ■ MsgQuoter now saves the Quote to ProBoard's Log-file, when a user has
      entered his own Quote.
    ■ Bolean variable added to control whether to ask if the user want to
      add his Signature line to the message or do it automatically.
    ■ Some minor bugs fixed.

 - Version 1.2ß - Public Beta!

    ■ Public Beta of a partitial rewrite of MsgQuoter 1.1.
    ■ Displays 16 Quotes on the screen.
    ■ Random Selection of a Quote.
    ■ Selection of the Quotes with Up/Down Cursorkeys.
    ■ Menu at the Bottom of the Screen.
    ■ Possibility to let the User add his Own Quote.
    ■ Possibility to let the User's Quote save into the Quotefile.
    ■ Help-text online.
    ■ Little SpinWheel when reading the Quotes into RAM in the upper
      right corner of the screen.
    ■ Converted to work with my own writepcb()-routine.

 - Version 1.1

    ■ Compiled with ProBoard 2.15 SDK.
    ■ Optimized for use with ProBoard Full Screen Editor (_FSED.PEX).
    ■ Doing 1.12 support.

 - Version 1.0

    ■ This is the first public release.
    ■ Check if the TAGLINES.TXT file exist, if not gives a message.
    ■ ASCii users won't see a thing.
    ■ Automatically adjust the number of notes with the length of the file
      containing the notes.

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 ■ Faster, 486/Pentium optimized version?
 ■ ASCii version, if needed?
 ■ Version for the line-by-line editor by ProBoard? If this posibility exist?

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║ ▒▒ Installation ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║
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 Copy the PEX file (FSED.PEX) to the PEX directory. Copy the files
 MSGQ_CFG.INI and MSGQ_SIG.INI to your ProBoard System directory. Copy
 TAGLINES.TXT to the directory defined in MSGQ_CFG.INI.

 You can also have multiplied Quotefiles. Take a look at the TAGLINES.ZIP
 archive which came with the distribution archive. It contains Quotefiles
 in several languages. (Thanks to Joop Blokker for these Quotefiles!)

 The file TAGLINES.TXT contains your quotes, enter one quote per line.

 Do you want to have more Quotes? Then, you must take a look at the archive
 MSGQ_DAT.ZIP, which was released on 15th of May 1996. You should be able to
 find it on my distribution sites, my homepage or any TGPBN BBS around.

 That's all folks!

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║ ▒▒ Credits ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║
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 This program was made by Olivier Debonne. I used Borland C++ 2.0 for DOS
 to edit and compile the source. The source contains about 2250 lines, which
 is equals to 46.2 KB of code. That includes all commentary. (Boy, this
 program is getting BIG ! :))

 This document (MSGQUOTE.DOC) file was edited with the Editor (EDIT.COM)
 supplied with Windows 95.

 The following names/product mentioned in this document are copyrighted
 material, trademarks or registred trademarks.

 Borland C++                    Borland International, Inc.
 Fidonet                        Tom Jennings.
 ProBoard                       Philippe Leybaert
 TmNice                         BLOKKER+BLOKKER Software
 Windows 95, MS-Editor          Microsoft, Inc.

 My home address is : Olivier Debonne
                      Kozakstraat 201
                      B-8560 Wevelgem
                      Belgium

 I monitor both PROBOARD and PROBOARD.029 Fidonet echoes. My Fidonet address
 is 2:291/1501.61. Leave a Netmail for a specific question!

 My Internet E-Mail address : [e-mail]

 If you are able to "Surf" the World-Wide-Web, be sure to take a look at the
 Virtual Soft Production Web-Site. All the latest PEXes can be found over
 there. The URL is http://www.dma.be/p/bewoner/odebonne/v_soft.htm !
 My files will also be available to FTP in the near future.

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║ ▒▒ Registred Users so far! ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║
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 in order of arrival :

  Wim Jans              MegaByte BBS                    2:292/315
  Gilles Hemberg        ThΣ Church bbs                  2:291/1928.1
  Wolfgang Dickhardt    WoLSBoX lAb bbS                 2:244/1234
  Mariano Defelipe      Graph BBS                       4:900/758
  David Moufarrege    Kraut Haus            1:2613/404

 Feel free to send in your registration, today!

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║ ▒▒ Greetings ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║
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 Greetings go to (in order of appearence) :

  Ruben Provoost, Stefaan Ovaere, Garrick Darts, Jurre Van Dijken, Tom Van
  Overbeke, Steven Leeman, Gilles Hemberg, Tom Torfs, Jonathan Cloots, Jeroen
  Jacobs, Pieter Dom, Wim Jans, Eric Delaet, Ronny Minjou, Chuck King,
  Branislav Slantchev, all points at Texas Van Vlaanderen, all readers of
  the PROBOARD.029 and PROBOARD echo, all students at the P.I.H. in Kortrijk,
  everybody who ever wrote a mail to me and all the FreeWare authors. Keep
  up the good work! And I forget to mention all the ones I forgot <g> ;-)

  Special thanks to Phillipe Leybaert for developing ProBoard!

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║ ▒▒ Distribution Sites ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║
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 - USS Aurora - Belgium/Europe distribution site

      Sysop   : Ruben Provoost [JMJ] ([e-mail])
      BBS #   : [phone] (V.34)
      Fidonet : 2:292/628

 - Orbit - The Netherlands distribution site

      Sysop   : Jurre Van Dijken ([e-mail])
      BBS #   : [phone] (V.34)
      Fidonet : 2:282/223

 - The Slice of Lime BBS - UK/Eire distribution site

      Sysop   : Garrick Darts ([e-mail])
      BBS #   : [phone] (V.34)
      Fidonet : 2:2500/623

 - Pacific Coast Micro - USA distribution site

      Sysop   : Mike Ehlert ([e-mail])
      BBS #   : [phone] (V.34)
      Fidonet : 1:102/1001
      FTP-Site: ftp://pcmicro.com/proboard_pex/

 - X-Technologies - Canada distribution site

      Sysop   : Doug Crone ([e-mail])
      BBS #   : [phone] (V.34)
      Fidonet : 1:140/46

 - Graph BBS - Argentina distribution site

      Sysop   : Mariano Defelipe ([e-mail])
      BBS #   : [phone] (V.34)
      Fidonet : 4:900/758

 - I'm searching for distribution sites in other countries/districts. Please
   write a message to me if you want to be my distribution site. All you need
   is a 24/24h BBS with Fidonet and/or TGPBN support and an E-Mail account!
   Other ProBoard alike nets are recommended, but not necessary.

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