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- BIRTH_RA.EXE
- Birthday Lister for RA 2.0X Systems
- Version 2.01
- Mark L. Sarnov
- November 1994
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- The Basic Features of this Fine Fozzy INC. Product!
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- * Creates a Monthly, Daily, and Complete Birthday Listings in
- ANSI and ASCII formats!
- - Monthly Listing in CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.
- - Daily and Complete Listings in ALPHABETICAL ORDER.
- * Listings can be based on RA User Group!
- * Sysop Defined Colors in the Birthday Listings!
- * List Users by their REAL NAMES or HANDLES!
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- * Posts Happy Birthday Message to Users on their Birthday!
- * The Birthday Message is SYSOP DEFINED!!
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- Files in this ARCHIVE:
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- BIRTH_RA.EXE The Birthday Listing Program
- BIRTH_RA.DOC You are reading it now!
- BIRTH_RA.NEW What's New in this version (A MUST READ!)
- BIRTH_RA.REG Registration File for this program.
- SAMPLE.CFG Sample Configuration File.
- CLRCHART.ZIP Color Chart program for color code reference.
- HAPPY.TXT Generic Happy Birthday Greeting.
- FILE_ID.DIZ Description file of this program.
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- Instructions:
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- This program will create a COMPLETE LISTING and a DAILY LISTING
- of your users with their respective birthdays in ALPHABETICAL order (using
- LAST NAME when using REAL NAMES and FIRST NAME when using HANDLES), AND a
- MONTHLY LISTING of the users who have a birthday in the current month, in
- CHRONOLOGICAL order. These listings will be in ANSI as well as ASCII format,
- given the extensions *.ANS and *.ASC respectively.
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- ** New for Version 2.0!
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- This program will also POST a PRIVATE, LOCAL message to each user
- on HIS/HER birthday in a sysop defined message area. (Hudson Bases ONLY!)
- The message is SYSOP Configured! BIRTH_RA.EXE will use a TEXTFILE containing
- the birthday greeting that has been created by the Sysop.
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- You can create the text file with any Text Editor (DOS's EDIT.COM or
- Q.EXE will do nicely.. or for you with masochistic tendencies, you can
- use EDLIN! (ack, NO!) The file HAPPY.TXT enclosed is a generic birthday
- greeting.
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- Syntax:
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- This program is fairly simple to use and understand. The syntax is as
- follows:
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- BIRTH_RA <Configuration Filename>
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- If you run:
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- BIRTH_RA
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- The program will SEARCH for the default configuration file name :
- BIRTH_RA.CFG in the current directory. If this file is not found, the program
- will ask you if you would like to create the file in the current directory and
- prompt you for the various information the program needs to run correctly.
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- * New for BIRTH_RA version 2.0!
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- - Built in Color Schemes: Default, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and
- you can design your own color schemes!
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- NOTE! If you have a previous version of a BIRTH_RA, you should have an old
- BIRTH_RA.CFG file in a directory. If so, please read "BIRTH_RA.NEW"
- to update your BIRTH_RA.CFG file, or DELETE it and start anew.
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- * New for BIRTH_RA version 2.0!
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- If you run:
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- BIRTH_RA OTHER.CFG
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- The program will search out OTHER.CFG and if not found, prompt you to
- create OTHER.CFG in the current directory. This feature allows you to have
- multiple CONFIGURATION FILES to create MULTIPLE ANSI/ASCII Birthday Listings!
-
- You can also create the configuration file with a text editor with the
- following format:
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- Personally, i would let BIRTH_RA.EXE do it for you! :)
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- |------ Do not include in config file! -----|
- BBSNAME=Fozzy's Place <- Name of your BBS
- SYSOP_NAME=Fozzy Bear <- Name of the Sysop
- DO_GREETINGS=Y <- Whether to post Birthday Greetings <Y>es or <N>o
- GREET_FILE=C:\RA\HAPPY.TXT <- The name of the TEXTFILE containing the Greeting
- MESSAGE_PATH=C:\RA\MSGBASE <- The PATH to the Hudson Message Base Files
- GREETING_BOARD=1 <- The HUDSON Board Number to post the Greeting
- LIST_NAME=NAME <- NAME will list REAL NAMES; HANDLE for HANDLEs
- GROUP_NUMBER=ALL <- Group Number you wish to list ("all" = all groups)
- DAILY_LIST=c:\dailybir <- path and name of DAILY b-day list
- MONTH_DAY=c:\monthbir <- path and name of MONTHLY b-day list
- TOTAL_LIST=c:\allbirth <- path and name of COMPLETE b-day list
- USER_PATH=C:\RA\MSGBASE <- path to your RA 2.0X USERS.BBS file
- TITLE_COLOR=12 <- Color of your ANSIs Title
- NAME_COLOR=3 <- Color of the NAMES/HANDLES in the ANSIs
- DOT_COLOR=6 <- Color of the DOTS in the ANSIs
- DATE_COLOR=14 <- Color of the DATE in the ANSIs
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- {Refer to CLRCHART.EXE for the numbers of the color combinations
- available to you in the CLRCHART.ZIP archive enclosed within the
- BIRTH_RA archive}
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- I would then recommend copying BIRTH_RA.EXE and your configuration file
- (BIRTH_RA.CFG or whatever) in your RA directory and running it from your batch
- file nightly with your regular BBS maintanence. You may place the command line
- after your user files are cleaned and sorted. This will insure fresh Birthday
- listings which you can display to the users with a simple:
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- Type 45 : (Display *.ASC/ANS/AVT with CR pause at end) menu command.
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- What will be in future versions??
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- - Anything you can suggest.. :)
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- DISCLAIMER!!
- This program is not guaranteed to do anything but take up space on your
- hard drive. Do not try to "crack" this program, it presently does all
- it is going to do in it's original form!
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- If you find this program useful and would like to see improvements
- future versions, please register! (SEE BIRTH_RA.REG file enclosed)
-
- Send $10.00 to : Mark L. Sarnov
- P.O. Box 6835
- Harrisburg, PA 17112-0835
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- You will receive a key via netmail that will disable the "Unregistered"
- message at the top of the BIRTHDAY LISTINGS.
-
- and call.. Fozzy's Place
- (717) 671-1271
- Fido 1:270/116
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- Enjoy the program!!
- Mark L. Sarnov
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