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SIGN-IT 2.0 SOFTWARE LICENSE Release Information Sign-It ver 2.0 Signature Program ------------------------------------------------------- Released as SHAREWARE. You may use Sign-It for a 30 day evaluation period. If after that time you find that that you are still using Sign-It then you should regis- ter it, or STOP USING IT. Registration enables the use of 32 additional signatures, inserts your registration number where the [NR] is in the Logo, and will display "Registered to #xxx - Your Name" on the Main Menu Screen. Please see the REGISTER.FRM file for more information on how to register. If you plan on registering, DO NOT rename SIGN-IT.EXE, this will render the registration utility inoperable since it looks for SIGN-IT.EXE to write the registration information to. Registered users of prior versions of SIGN-IT can simply re-enter their registration code to register version 2.0 with their name and registration number. Brief Introduction to Sign-It ────────────────────────────────────────────────────── THE PROGRAM I orignally wrote Sign-It to work with my Off-line Mail Reader (OLMR), BLUE WAVE, and then to work with Speed Read, when I started using it on a QWK system that allowed File Attachments. To be able to use SIGN-IT it is necessary to set up an EDITOR.BAT file. You can also use Sign-It with SLMR, OLX, SPEED READ, ROBOMAIL, 1ST READER, Jabber and UniQWK 4.2 Windows Off-Line Reader. There may be other QWK Readers, but they are to my knowledge untested. With version 2.0 I have written a utility to allow SIGN-IT to work with Net Tamer, a DOS PPP program that is an excellent utility for getting your Internet E-Mail, and Usenet News. Net Tamer also does the Web, FTP, and Telnet. INSTALLATION Unzip the SGNIT1-X.ZIP archive into either your Offline Reader's Directory or to the C:\SIGNIT directory. Those individuals using SPEED READ _must_ put EDITOR.BAT into the C:\SIGNIT directory. SPEED READ requires the use of BRIDGE.EXE for SIGN-IT to get the location of your reply file in the format it needs i.e. <drive>\<directory>\<filename>, and BRIDGE requires that your EDITOR.BAT file be located in the C:\SIGNIT directory. For additional information Check the Setup for your Mail Reader. ====================================================== BWave/Jabber BLUE WAVE / JABBER Setup All you have to do is put the name of the executable (SIGN-IT.EXE) into your EDITOR.BAT file and pass it the same parameters that are being passed to your Editor. In English; Tell Sign-It where to find your reply file and what it's name is. Since BLUE WAVE and JABBER pass this information in the same manner I have put the setups for BLUE WAVE and JABBER together. FOR BLUE WAVE go into setup and where it asks for the Editor, put EDITOR.BAT @F. Then save this. FOR JABBER. Open the Jabber.cfg file, and where it says: EXTERNAL PROGRAMS External editor (blank = internal editor) {EDITOR=} change it to {EDITOR=C:\JABBER\EDITOR.BAT} Sample EDITOR.BAT file: For BlueWave and Jabber. @echo off C:\EDITOR\EDITOR.EXE %1 CD\SIGNIT ; If SignIt is not in your OLMR Dir. SIGN-IT.EXE %1 Sign-It must be called from the directory where it resides. This is so Sign-it can find the signatures, signit.lst files and configuration file. ======================================================= SLMR/OLX SLMR/OLX Setup To use Sign-it with SLMR/OLX, you need to go into the configuration and where it says editor put EDITOR.BAT Then in your editor.bat file: c:\editor\editor.exe %1 (or) c:\slmr\slme %1 cd\slmr <------- Or Wherever Sign-it is located. sign-it c:\slmr\mr$work\reply.msg <--Pass the Full Path to your Reply File. ======================================================== SPEED READ SPEED READ Setup To allow Sign-It to work with SPEED READ, I have written an additional utility called BRIDGE.EXE. If you are using SPEED READ you will need to use BRIDGE.EXE If you are using any DataBase style reader, you may have to use BRIDGE.EXE to allow Sign-It and your reader to work together. To use Bridge, you must have Editor.bat on the C: drive and in the SignIt directory, i.e. C:\SIGNIT\EDITOR.BAT would be the path to the Batch file that you run your editor and Sign-it from. In the General Setup for SPEED READ, you would select for your Editor; C:\SPEED\BRIDGE.EXE %s This is, of course, assuming you have installed BRIDGE.EXE in the SPEED directory and not in the SIGNIT directory. Those individuals using SPEED READ _must_ put EDITOR.BAT in the C:\SIGNIT directory. This will allow Speed and Sign-It to work together. My batch file looks like; c:\edit\edit.exe %1 c: <----- I have Speed use a RAM Drive as a WORK Drive so I have to change to C: drive first, after the editor is done. cd\signit sign-it %1 This also allows you to use SignIt and your signature files with with more than one Mail reader. I presently am using both SPEED and Blue Wave, and only need the single installation of SignIt. If you are using a database style Mail reader or are having problems trying to pass the path to your editor batch file, then you may want to use BRIDGE and this setup. Bridge simply finds out where it is (directory /PATH) and the name of the file to be edited (reply.txt or .msg) then passes this information to the Editor.bat file in the C:\SIGNIT directory. SIGN-IT.EXE needs the FULL path to your reply file. ======================================================== ROBOMAIL I will now turn the podium over to my good friend Scott Tinney and he will explain the set up to get Sign-It to work with RoboMail. ROBOMAIL Setup In the Robomail configuration Message Settings (page 3), Message Editor section, mark the Use External Editor check-box and enter: EDITOR %T %S in the area for the external editor. I located editor.bat, sign-it.exe, signit.lst and the signit.00* signatures in the Robomail directory to avoid the necessity of providing pathnames for everything. D:\QE is my QEdit directory and Q is the QEdit executable. BTW; Very nice program, you do good work. :) rem editor.bat @echo off d:\qe\q %1 %2 sign-it %1 -={ Scott Tinney | Grove Oklahoma }=- scott.tinney@origins.bbs.uoknor.edu ================================================================== 1ST READER 1ST READER SETUP Go into the Setup and Press "E", or click on (E)ditor. You will have to use BRIDGE.EXE to pass the proper information to SIGN-IT. On the External Editor Cmd Line enter; C:\1ST\BRIDGE.EXE %R %O <---Put "R" and "O" if your Editor supports loading two files at once. If not then put "R" and change the Original File Spec to REPLY. You then need to go to (S)witches in setup, cursor down to #3 and Press [Space Bar] to enable the External Editor. You must setup the External Editor Cmd, before you can enable the External Editor in the (S)witches area. If you have any problems with setting this up, refer to the on line help in 1ST READER. If your Editor Supports the Loading of two files at once, then your EDITOR.BAT file should look like; c:\edit\editor.exe %1 %2 REM %1 is the REPLY file, and %2 is the ORIGINAL message c: cd\signit sign-it %1 The EDITOR.BAT file must be located in the c:\signit directory for you to use BRIDGE, and it must be named EDITOR.BAT. You can also use 1STEDIT if you would like. I had no problem with calling 1STEDIT from the C:\SIGNIT directory. If your editor only supports the loading of one file at a time then you will only need the %1 after the command to call up your editor. ================================================================= UNIQWK 4.2 UNIQWK SETUP If you already have UniQWK setup and running and would like to add Sign-It to your repertoire of Mail Reading tools and toys, then Click on "SET" from the Main Menu, then Click on "SETTINGS". In the General Options Dialogue box Click on REPLY OPTION. In the Reply Options Dialogue Box Click on [X] Use Internal Editor, to remove the "X" from the Box. Then where it says EXTERNAL EDITOR, give the path to your EDITOR.BAT file ie. C:\SIGNIT\EDITOR.BAT Since UniQWK allows the use of an external editor, and a DOS editor if you prefer, then you can use something like QEdit if you want, and have Sign-It for your Signature Files. In the SIGNIT.CFG file I would leave the semi-colon in front of the Spell Checker line. Since UniQWK has an internal Spell Checker, this feature is not needed, although when testing UniQWK I didn't notice any problems when this screen popped up. I did NOT try to run my spell checker though. If you are installing UniQWK for the first time, then just fill in the boxes as I have mentioned above, as you work your way through the Install. I found that a standard EDITOR.BAT file like you would use for Blue Wave works just fine. You do not need to worry about using BRIDGE.EXE to get the information to Sign-It in any Special way. @echo off C:\EDITOR\EDITOR.EXE %1 CD\SIGNIT ; If SignIt is not in your OLMR Dir. SIGN-IT.EXE %1 Sign-It may work with other versions of UniQWK, but I have only tested it with ver. 4.2. ================================================================= NET TAMER 1.04 NET TAMER SETUP For the most part the Setup for Net Tamer is the same for setting up for an Off-Line Reader. You will still need an EDITOR.BAT file, to use an external editor. You will also need to put B4T.EXE into your Net Tamer Directory. If you are NOT using SPEED READ also, then you can put SIGN-IT.EXE and accompanying files wherever you want. In the Setup for Net Tamer Under Editor, put the location of the B4T.EXE file. Then in your MSG directory, if it is different than your Net Tamer Directory, create a file called bat.loc. In this file you put the path to your editor.bat file. In my case my bat.loc file reads; C:\SIGNIT\EDITOR.BAT This is because of my use of Speed Read as well as Blue Wave. I would recommend creating a MSG directory for Net Tamer. If for no other reason than to reduce the clutter in your Net Tamer Directory. Then you create your editor.bat file to work with your editor, and SIGN-IT and it's accompanying files. There are examples of editor.bat files in the documentation so I will not put another one here. ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── System Requirements I've written Sign-It with the idea in mind, that just about any system should be able to run it. Thus there are no Flashy graphics, or exploding Windows to bog down the system. Video: EGA or Higher, I have received some comments from users that have CGA that some screens display in unusual colors. Processor: Should run on just about anything. OS: DOS 3.1 or greater. ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Contacting the Author I can either be contacted via the regular Mail service. Patrick L. Pridgen P.O. Box 183 La Grande, Oregon 97850 Or via Internet; pat.pridgen@svis.org For those of you who have access to the RIME Network, I follow the Shareware, and Off-Line Conferences. You can simply route mail to me; Pat Pridgen ->5012 or SVIS. ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Features/Usage You can have as many as 3 Signature files, named SIGNIT.001 - SIGNIT.003. However, you must have SIGNIT.001. The Program won't crash, but nothing's going to happen either. You can either select Signature Number 1 by pressing "1" or just press Enter. To select NO Signature Press "0". If you select a signature file that doesn't exist, SignIt will default to SIGNIT.001 In the Registered version you get 32 additional Signature Files SIGNIT.004 - SIGNIT.009, and SIGNIT.00A - SIGNIT.00Z. In this way two people can have their own separate Signature Files, or one person can have several. Something to know, is that some Virus Scanners might get a little excited if you run them before, and then after registering Sign-It. The Registration process alters SIGN-IT.EXE. So...don't be alarmed if your Virus Scanner beeps on SIGN-IT.EXE after you have registered it. This may or may not be a problem with your Scanner. You have the option of having a copy of your signature files in 1, 2, or 3 Separate List Files. In this way you can view your signatures, if you can't remember what they look like. With 35 signatures possible this will become necessary I assure you. From the Main Screen you can press [F1] for SIGNIT.LST, [F2] for SIGNIT2.LST and [F3] for SIGNIT3.LST. A sample SIGNIT.LST is included in the SGNIT1-X.??? archive. You can create the other two with any ASCII editor, i.e. DOS's EDIT.COM/EXE. In this way you can have your everyday signatures in one file, and your special signatures in one, or two more files. The addition of two more list files replaces the single signature viewer in prior versions. I have found, over time, that this is more efficient and faster. Those of you who like the File List idea can thank Mr. Dan Fulbright (dan.fulbright@thehub.com). He explained that he was using a kludge with a batch file to do this and I liked the idea myself, so I added it to the program. Your Signature Files are limited to 24 lines. Since most Networks don't like you using more than 4 lines, I consider this more than enough of a fudge factor. If you go beyond 24 lines I'm not quite sure what will happen, but I'll be willing to bet you get an ERROR message. If you try this you might let me know what happens<G>. Since most International Networks don't support High ASCII (those characters that can't be found on your keyboard), like 254 "■", 225"ß" and several that make those slick double line boxes around your signature (like 205 "══════"), I recommend that you use the available keys and symbols that are on your keyboard to create your signatures. This will insure that they reach their destination in the same condition in which they left. I have acquired, over time, several Signature examples and a couple of exceptional bits of ASCII art. These examples are in the SIGS.QRF file. It is also recommended that if you use a Utility like The Draw, that you save your signature in ASCII and not ANSI. Most systems and SysOps don't appreciate the ANSI graphics. ========================================================= Several friends decided that they liked the idea of being able to add the Date and Time to the end of their replies, so I decided to add that feature. To be able to set this up so that you can choose either Date, Time, Date and Time, or nothing following the SignIt Logo it is necessary to use a Configuration file. If there is no Configuration File, then SignIt will tell you it is missing and exit. There were some additional suggestions to be able to have some control over what it says after the LOGO. I have given you complete control over what it says after the LOGO. Within a 75 character total limitation, LOGO included. In the SIGNIT.CFG file you will find; ;c:\spell\speller.exe DATE>Signed on TIME> at TAIL>, not a moment too soon. ;CLOCK>15,7 Explanation of SIGNIT.CFG options: ;c:\spell\speller.exe <----PATH to Spell Checker disabled by the(;) DATE>Signed on <-----Displayed before Date String: enabled TIME> at <--Alt-255 to make a space, then the Time String: enabled Note: Some Readers, and UNIX have trouble with ASCII 255, so you may want to use the underscore "_". TAIL>, not a moment too soon. <--Follows Time String: enabled ^ |-----(IMPORTANT) leave options Capitalized. CLOCK>15,7 This will be discussed later in the Documentation. If everything is enabled the logo string will display as; *LOGO* + DATE + mm-dd-yyyy + TIME + hh:mm AM/PM + TAIL Therefore, the above SIGNIT.CFG would yield the following; *SignIt 2.0 [NR]* Signed on 07-04-1995 at 11:14 PM, not a moment too soon. This is the Unregistered Logo. The Registered Logo looks like *SignIt 2.0 #XXX* Where #XXX is your registration number. The entire string, including the Logo, can be a MAXIMUM of 75 Characters. Since you can enable all, some or none of these options, I think that this should give you a Logo String you can play with. If none of the options are enabled then the SignIt Logo is all that is appended after your signature. Now Back to the Clock CLOCK>15,1 The First Number is the Foreground color, and the second number is the Background color. Be sure to separate the two with a comma. If Enabled this will Display the time on the Main Screen. This Particlular clock will be White and have a Gray background. These colors blend with the Main Screen. You can however have a clock that stands out if you want. Available Foreground Colors Available Background Colors 0 = black 8 = dk gray 0 = black 1 = dk blue 9 = lt blue 1 = dk blue 2 = dk green 10 = lt green 2 = dk green 3 = dk cyan 11 = lt cyan 3 = dk cyan 4 = dk red 12 = orange 4 = dk red 5 = magenta 13 = lavender 5 = magenta 6 = brown 14 = yellow 6 = brown 7 = lt gray 15 = white 7 = lt gray Any feature that you would like to implement, simply remove the semi-colon from in front of the entry in the SIGNIT.CFG file. If you have a Spell Checker you want to use, you will need to put the path to your spell checker, unless it is already in the PATH statement in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Then you can simply put the name of the executable file. This feature is predominantly for SPEED READ, which does not support a Spell Checker as does Blue Wave. Signature Testing ─────────────────────────Testing───────────────────────── If you want to test drive some of your Signatures before sending them into the great beyond, create a Batch File. Call it what ever you like, I call mine SIG.BAT. I also have another file called TEST.TXT. TEST.TXT is just a plain ASCII file, that gives Sign-It a place to put your test signatures. In your batch file put; SIGN-IT TEST.TXT. (or whatever the name of your file that you CLS will be putting test signatures into) SEE TEST.TXT (This allows you to view your Test Signatures) Then when you type SIG it will call up SignIt, and you can try out your new signatures to see what they will look like when it is printed to TEST.TXT. You can view them with any ASCII editor. DOS's EDIT.COM/EXE is fine for doing this, or SEE.EXE, which comes in the Sign-It Archive. ─────────────────────────── History ────────────────────── SIGN-IT 2.0 There has been some rewriting of the code, primarily due to a Hard Drive crash. The major differences are the addition of a utility to work with Net Tamer, and the return of the SIGNIT.CFG file to its previous form. A few too many problems with systems hanging to retain the comments in the interior of the .CFG file. For the most part SIGN-IT remains unchanged. This release is mostly due to the addition of the utility to allow SIGN-IT to work with Net Tamer. Since Net Tamer only allows a 2 line signature I immediately began look- ing for a way to get SIGN-IT and Net Tamer to work together, when I was looking for a non-windows based program that would allow someone to view the Web. Net Tamer does this, and much more. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── SIGN-IT 1.9 Added the ability to have a Time Display on the Main Screen if wanted. This is user configurable in both its ON or OFF state, and the color of this display. If you have a reader that doesn't display the time, you will find this handy. I know I do, it's gotten me to bed on time more than once. Reduced the number of signatures available in the UNREGISTERED version to 3. This was how few the Signature program I was using allowed, when I decided to write Sign-It. Somehow it only seemed fair. I have also made some Changes in how the Configuration file is read, allowing for some Comments to be placed inside the Configuration File. BUGS: One minor anomaly that has been noted with the String after the LOGO with BlueWave. If you are having problems with this, then using a standard ASCII editor (DOS Edit) go into the SIGNIT.CFG file, and delete the lines beginning with "%". ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── SIGN-IT 1.8 Removed the Single Signature Viewer and replaced it with two more possible list files. Added 16 more signatures to bring the total to 26 additional signatures upon entering a valid registration code. This brings the total to 35 possible signatures. I have also changed the way in which SIGN-IT is compiled, reducing it in size. In this age of Huge Hard Drives, and bloated code, I couldn't resist making SIGN-IT smaller than it was before. BRIDGE.EXE has been re-written to allow the passing of two file names to the EDITOR.BAT file. This allows SIGN-IT to work with 1ST READER, in both Editor Configurations. If your editor supports the loading of two files as does 1STEDIT then you can take advantage of this feature. I have also added the ability to Drop to DOS from SIGN-IT. There have been some occasions when I would have liked to be able to do this, to change a Signature or make some other adjustment. How well this will work for you, will depend solely on how efficiently your memory is managed. To Drop to DOS you Press [F-10] from the Main Screen. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── SIGN-IT 1.7 - Initial Shareware Release. Enhanced the List File Viewer. Added 10 additional signatures upon entering a valid Registration Code. This code also adds your registration number to the LOGO, and "Registered to #XXX First Name Last Name" to the opening screen. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── SIGN-IT 1.6 Changed the Viewer so than you can see up to 22 lines of your Signature. This should be more than enough. Most systems/Sysops cringe at signatures over just a few lines. Although the internet seems to encourage some expression here. They seem to get a little testy if your signature exceeds 4 or 5 lines. I have also completely changed the way that you are able to view the files. This can now be done via a View Menu and use of the cursor keys. I have also added the SIGNIT.LST file to the archive, so that you can keep a brief description of each of your signatures and be able to view this file via the View Menu if you wish. Made the LOGO string completely configurable. The only thing you don't have control over is the LOGO itself. Anything after that, up to a total of 75 characters, including LOGO, is yours to play with. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── SIGN-IT 1.5 I guess I would have to call this a Bug Fix Release. It seems that if you go back in, edit a file and then exit selecting NO Signature, the Spell Shell screen pops up, even if you have it disabled in the configuration file. Nothing happens when you do Y/N, but...it shouldn't be there. If you Select NO Signature there will also be NO Logo. My thanks to Scott Tinney and Bob Potts for catching this problem and bringing it to my attention. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── SIGN-IT 1.4 Made the way the LOGO is displayed, more user configurable. It is now necessary to have a small Configuration file. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── SIGN-IT 1.3 Added the ability to Call a Spell Checker. This isn't particularly important if you are using Blue Wave since Blue Wave has this as an option in the configuration setup. However, for other OLR's I thought that this would be a nice feature. I set this up predominantly for Speed Read v1.4, since I started using that reader. However for Speed Read you have to use an additional utility that I have written. I call it BRIDGE, because it helps to bridge the gap between Speed, and Sign-It. I also changed the way the LOGO looks for this version. I felt that it was a little too imposing. I have also changed it, so that the Logo line can be right against the last line of your Signature if you want. I did this because the RIME network only allows a 2 Line Signature, and I didn't want to have to quit using SignIt just because it didn't conform to the RIME rules. If you want to use the Spell Checker, then you have to create a file called SIGNIT.CFG. In the first line of this file you have to tell Sign-It where to find your Spell Checker. For Example if you use Share Spell, and it's in your path, then your SIGNIT.CFG file will look like; SS.EXE That's all you need in the file. If however you are using something else, then you'll have to put that. If it isn't in your PATH, then you'll have to give the FULL Path to it. Another Example C:\SPELL\SS.EXE ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── SIGN-IT 1.2a Some friends asked me if I could get it to put the time of signature along with the date. I assured them that I could. So now when Sign-it puts its LOGO at the end it looks like: [SIGN-IT 1.2a] Date:02-07-1995 at 06:36 PM So for Gary and Phyllis De Vries we now have version 1.2a. This is a very limited release. I think just Gary and Phyllis have a copy of 1.2a, and have the time in their LOGO. I thought it made the LOGO a little too long, so I only enabled this feature in 1.2a. I also added on the Menu who this version was compiled for. I guess at this point, if someone else would like this revision, with the little personal note on who it was compiled for, then they can do the same thing these friends did. They can send me a disk, with some incentive (Read Money) to rewrite some of the code, and to recompile it. How much? Well, at least enough to cover sending the disk back to you and anything after that, that you consider fair. Oh by the way, Gary and Phyllis didn't ask me to put the note about the custom compiling, I just thought it was a nice touch since these folks were so appreciative of the time I have spent creating this program. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── SIGN-IT 1.2 I've added the ability to be able to View your Signatures. This is just in case, that you have so many signatures, that you have lost track of which one is which. Press [ V ] to View your files, then you can select which one that you want to see. If it is a small signature, then you will see all of it. If it is a rather lengthy signature, then you will be able to see the last part of it. This should be ample for you to remember what the gist of it is. Then you can select which Signature to print to your reply. If you want to see another Signature you must press [ V ] again. If you just press a number, then that is the Signature that you will use. If you mess up, you can always go back and change it. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── SIGN-IT 1.1 This is a little change from version 1.0. It would limit your signatures to 14 lines. But...I got to thinking that some of those small ANSI signatures require a fair amount of lines, so I increased it to 24. Another change from version 1.0 is that after the [Sign-it] Logo, the date will be printed. I thought it would be helpful to know when you finished the reply, maybe not. I've also changed the appearance of the program a little bit. No great shakes. It just looks different than ver. 1.0 I have also gotten rid of the "ßeta" part of the Logo at the end. The ASCII 225 "ß" is being dropped by most of the International systems anyway, so might as well get rid of it now. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── SIGN-IT 1.0 Initial Release. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── All of the above mentioned Off-Line Mail Readers are the property of their respective Authors/Companies. Thank You's ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── I would like to take just a moment to thank a few people. Scott Tinney, for a great deal of help in cleaning up my documentation and for helping in testing. Those of you who like being able to call the LIST file from the Main Screen can thank Scott. It was his idea. Lowell Terry, for testing my handy work, and finding the holes that I didn't know it had. Kurt Kuzba from the Fidonet Quik_Bas Echo for some excellent code to play with. He saved me quite a bit of time in working out the File Viewer change for version 1.6, also Matt Hart for some good file viewing code. Gary DeVries, for his continuing support, and suggestions. Paul Hetzer, who started me on the road to programming again. Joe Negron, and the rest of the folks from the Fidonet Quik_Bas echo who have shown me some excellent code, and been there to answer my questions. My wife Cindy, for not getting too upset because of the amount of time that I spend "playing" on the computer. Thanks Everyone, I appreciate your help. Anyway, have fun with this. Pat Pridgen