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- │ FLIBBS v1.2 │
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- │ *** READ ME FILE *** │
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- │ Software by SOGY sc │
- │ Copyrights (c) 1995-96 │
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- │ May 1, 96 │
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- This document describes briefly what is FLIBBS, and explains how
- to install and run it (you should read this before anything else).
-
- It also tells you how to print the documentation, where to get the
- latest version, and how to contact the author. A brief section on
- future versions terminates the document.
-
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- 1 What is FLIBBS
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-
- The File LIst for BBS or FLIBBS (pronouce FLIB'S) program is
- intended for those who are interested by the huge amount of files
- available on any decent BBS, but are fed up of having either to
- spend a lot of money in on-line researchs and queries, or to
- manipulate mega bytes of badly standardized and difficult to
- handle ASCII BBS "All files" lists. If you are one of these
- unfortunates guys, as I used to be, you have already understood
- what FLIBBS is all about:
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- │ FLIBBS imports the data contained in more or less standard │
- │ ASCII BBS file list, put it into a well structured data base │
- │ called a FLIBBS Data Set, and allows you to manipulate and │
- │ analyse this information in ways you had never dreamed │
- │ before. │
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- 2 FLIBBS is Shareware
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-
- FLIBBS is SHAREWARE, user supported software. FLIBBS is made
- available for a free 45 day trial period. If you find the program
- of use and wish to continue using it, you are obliged to purchase
- a personal license, that is to register this program.
-
- To learn how to register this program (and to see what incentives
- are available to registered users) see the file REGISTER.DOC. It
- also contains a registration form for you to send in. To print the
- registration form, make sure your printer is on and ready, then
- type
-
- COPY REGISTER.DOC PRN
-
-
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- 3 Installation
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-
- To install FLIBBS, follow the following [conditional] steps:
-
- ■ If you already own a registered version of FLIBBS:
-
- - make a backup copy of your FLIBBS.EXE file in some other
- directory
-
- - after successful installation of the new version in
- accordance with the instructions that follow, consult
- the file REGISTER.DOC to see how you can immediately
- register your new version of FLIBBS
-
- ■ If you have a previous version of FLIBBS installed in some
- directory:
-
- - copy the FLIBBS distribution file into that directory
-
- - uncompress the distribution file OVERWRITING all
- existing files
-
- - run the utility program FLCV1011.EXE before doing
- anything else.
-
- ■ If you do not have a previous version of FLIBBS installed:
-
- - create any directory
-
- - copy and uncompress the FLIBBS distribution file into
- it.
-
- ■ You may then run FLIBBS from anywhere you like (put the
- FLIBBS directory in your path if you wish), FLIBBS will put
- all its own informations, files and data into the directory
- where the FLIBBS.EXE file is located (the directory where you
- have uncompressed the distribution file).
-
- IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR SYSOP:
-
- If you are using the MKFLIBBS program and are upgrading from
- FLIBBS version v1.0, you must change some details in the
- batch file that produces your FLIBBS Data Set (see
- MKFLIBBS.DOC for more on this).
-
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- 4 Running FLIBBS
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-
- Your run FLIBBS by typing the command "FLIBBS" at the DOS prompt
- while in the FLIBBS directory, unless you have added the FLIBBS
- directory in your path, in which case you may call FLIBBS from any
- directory you are in.
-
- To learn how to use FLIBBS, you may:
-
- ■ Press the <F1> key while you are in the program, and navigate
- through the help system to find the information you need
-
-
- ■ Print the documentation, and read it
-
- ■ Print the documentation, and carry out the exercice described
- in the section "Getting Started and Overview". It should give
- you in little time quite a good understanding on how to use
- FLIBBS
-
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- 5 Printing the documentation
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-
- You may print the FLIBBS documentation by switching your printer
- on, and typing the following command at the dos prompt:
-
- COPY FLIBBS.DOC PRN
-
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- 6 How to get the latest version
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-
- The latest version of FLIBBS can be file requested from node
- 2:291/754 under the magic name "FLIBBS".
-
- It is available on the BBS "Always Thinking Confetti"
- (32-2-3809423).
-
- At the time you are reading this document, the latest version of
- FLIBBS should also be available on Compuserve, on the PC Bulletin
- Forum (type "GO PCBBS").
-
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- 7 Contacting the author
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-
- You may contact me by mail at the following adress:
-
- Marc Deroover
- Rue Geleytsbeek, 80
- B-1180 Brussels
- Belgium
-
- You may also contact me on the following networks:
-
- FidoNet : 2:293/2009.119
- Internet : Marc.Deroover@ideacom.be
- ILink : If you whish, you could also contact me in the
- "Shareware" conference of the ILink network
-
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- 8 About future versions
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-
- Future versions of FLIBBS will aim at adapting the software to
- user's remarks and requirements.
-
- Future version could include additionnal functions, like searching
- for a string in several FLIBBS Data Set at once.
-
-
- Future version could also be dedicated to automazing the update of
- one of your FLIBBS Data Set with the monthly file of your BBS
- Sysop. FLIBBS could detect the new dowloaded file, move and open
- it, and automatically update the main FLIBBS Data Set. This means
- you could freq your BBS for the latest FLIBBS Data Set upgrade,
- and then update your FLIBBS Data Set, all at once and
- automatically using a batch file.
-
- Improvements could also be included in the services offered to
- Sysops. MKFLIBBS could for example remove the PCB codes that are
- included in many ALLFILES.TXT files.
-
- In any case, let me know your remarks concerning FLIBBS. I will
- always consider them ...
-
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